Getting Your Blog Ripped Off
So there really are a LOT ways of getting your blog ripped off. I think I
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Cause the ‘fro represents!! You know this!
What’s up Dave? I’ve been tied up interviewing and traveling. I hope that all is well.
Comment by Shelia — May 11, 2008 @ 11:57 pm
Hi Sheila
Yeah I’ve been crazy with internet/blog stuff and haven’t really done much else except a little work on my house. Just came from JohnChow’s site and he’s describing a product called Reverse Funnel and it’s definitely keeping with this theme I’ve going of rip offs. I mean wow, it sounds hard to believe that an adult person would think it’s a good idea.
Maybe it’s time I started talking more about these darker sides of blogging. For example we’ve spoken about the downside of having a clearly “black” avatar or logo. People at Entrecard have refused my card at least a dozen times now.
Comment by Dave — May 12, 2008 @ 1:12 am
Hey Dave! Interesting info today.
I’ve been getting several declines a week for EC advertising lately…not sure what’s up with that. If you’re getting declined because of race…well…that just sucks.
Did you do the 30 minute backlinking thing? Looks tempting…
Comment by Kathy — May 12, 2008 @ 4:10 pm
Hi Kathy,
Thanks for the visit. Usually with EC I pick based on logical complementary subject matter, so I can’t CONFIRM why, but I have a pretty high decline rate.
30 min is an item that is a software based. And it would work, but on the 15th I’m going to change my “bottom” ads when that $25 offer runs out, and I’ll probably make a stronger case for the items I support and why.
And for me; do you use Firefox and are you seeing any blog/Wordpress errors?
Comment by Dave — May 12, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
Yep - using Firefox. You mean do I see any errors on your blog? If so, nope - looks fine.
Comment by Kathy — May 12, 2008 @ 5:09 pm
Thanks. I appreciate the things you’ve contributed today.
Comment by Dave — May 12, 2008 @ 6:27 pm
Hi there,
Thanks for directing bloggers to my post http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/splog-off-dealing-with-content-theft/
Yesterday a fellow Blog Catalog member used my posts and found out that the her posts had been ripped off. The thief has 90 splogs on a wide variety of subjects. She has made a DMCA complaint, a Gogle adsense complaint and also reported the splogger to Technorati. IMO unless we bloggers are vigilant and prepared to act swiftly when we find someone has scraped our posts this splogfest will continue.
Best wishes to you and your readers in all you do.
Comment by timethief — May 13, 2008 @ 9:46 am
Hey Dave;
I love your mug shot! People must also love it, or they wouldn’t want to rip it off, I guess. Is that a compliment?
How can you check to see if people are using your content?? Is there a statistic somewhere?
Thanks!
Comment by Grandy — May 13, 2008 @ 12:42 pm
Hi Grandy
Yeah I think I could understand if current blog visitors saw my “mugshot” and decided they wanted it, but I track the keyword search people use to find my picture and they are not using a pleasant words for those searches.
But timethief was kind enough to leave a SECOND link to her article where she does mention http://www.copyscape.com/
and that’s a site that checks for duplicate content. It’s much easier than grabbing a block of content and putting it in google and putting it in quotes and seeing what pops up. I have other sneakier methods, but copyscape is great.
Hi timethief I read yesterday about the blogger who found the pro splogger, who had robbed her via technorati. The splogger just took bits and pieces from so many blogs. That’s a lot of work, might have been easier to write his own stuff.
Comment by Dave from Welcome Back Rosenthal — May 13, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
Dave,
Don’t worry about excerpt sploggers who pull in and republish public feeds. Google usually won’t penalize them beyond placing the site in question in the duplicate content filter. You are publically publishing these feeds and anyone who uses excerpts from them is within ‘fair use’ provisions, whether they’re Google, Technorati or Joe Splog.
The upside is that you get a link pointing to your site and, the more links you have the better your placement in Google search results. I usually do a splog bait post on iPhones or video game systems just to pick up an extra 10-50 links.
Now, full content ripoff artist is something you should take the time to fight.
Comment by Frank C — May 15, 2008 @ 10:12 am
Hahaha. Thanks Frank!
That was EXACTLY the way I came to look at the people who were just taking a paragraph and giving me a link saying
Comment by Dave from Welcome Back Rosenthal — May 15, 2008 @ 10:57 am
I think it is hard to be original these days - I had someone pretty much steal my bestofstupid blog idea and it was a blogger i was actually pretty friendly with. they were nice though and at least gave me a link on the blog roll since i was the inspiration…but still…
just yesterday i left a comment for someone using my sheetz shmuffin picture…sure, one guy is probably not going to make a big dent in my bandwidth but if everybody did this we’d be in big trouble!!
It’s a sign of sucess though when people start ripping you off. It means you must have something good or they wouldn’t notice it to steal it
Comment by Chelle — May 16, 2008 @ 2:06 pm
p.s.- something is messed up on this page in ie7? Your sidebars are under the comment form! Just to let you know so you can try to fix it!
Comment by Chelle — May 16, 2008 @ 2:07 pm
HI Chelle
Good to hear from you, and yeaah internet “friends” can be weird like that.
And I always factor in imitation when I do something in public. But plagirism and branding theft of “look and feel” are things that people go to court about in most businesses .
And thanks about the blog errors. I’m coming VERY close to putting up a request to “tell me about errors when you visit” becuase this theme and I are always at odds. But it’s good for what I’m doing these days-testing. Not to mention my version of “proofreading.”
Comment by Dave from Welcome Back Rosenthal — May 16, 2008 @ 6:43 pm
Yeah, Dave! I am totally 100% behind you on this one! I just started blogging for my comic book but was pretty hesitant to post any official scans of it so soon. If someone decides to rip off my scans and then recreate it and call it their own, I’m royally fucked too. I don’t need that hassle. I might decide to actually take them down pretty soon. Maybe I’ll just take photos of my works in progress and post it that way. Or, I’ll just put in big transparent letters over it, ‘COPYRIGHTED BY ME’. Although, you already gave the solution of should someone want to use your photo to have it directly linked to your blogsite rather then have them copy it. Easy.
By the way, I know we all love the fro. I’ve seen a lot of japanese and korean cats rocking the fro too. It’s insane but, damn. Isn’t that a bit too extreme for a brother with yellow skin to wanna be a black man? Its worse when I hear a bunch of asian kids throw the ‘N’ word around at each other like they really are black. Reminds me of that comment Paul Mooney made on the Chappelle show, ‘Everyone wanna be a n—a but no one wanna be a n—a.’
Comment by K — May 19, 2008 @ 7:37 am
Hi K!
Well actually you’re in a very good position with image based work because you can use the watermark feature to lock all your images to you. I get TONS of image visits every day-some are my scans of comics, some are tv captures some are things I took from the web and leave the original person’s name on.
And yeah I know people love the Afro, and I lived in Tokyo so I got to see their variations quite up close. My whole dislike of people’s like is the sort of Sambo, Tar Baby, Buckwheat aspect of black people being less than human in real life but GREAT as characters. And they search strings I see in the stats are skewed in that direction.
Comment by Dave — May 19, 2008 @ 7:53 am