Bloggers Beware
I checked my Technorati links today and noticed several links to a blog called Baby.
This website has cut and pasted several of my posts. They took all the content and the pictures to these posts, specifically my three most recent posts. I am not pleased. They did not seek nor receieve my permission and they did not attribute the posts to me.
This website appears to be doing the same thing with several other blogs as well. In addition, they have many Google ads, so they appear to be making money from using other peoples content. I am looking into this further. I wonder if they will take this post too?
Has anyone else had any problems with this website or anything similar?
**Updated** I have removed the web address of the splog, because I don't want to give them anymore publicity. A good definition of a splog is found here. I realized that many people are going onto the splog from here and giving them more page impressions, which makes them more money, which I do not want to help.
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This website has cut and pasted several of my posts. They took all the content and the pictures to these posts, specifically my three most recent posts. I am not pleased. They did not seek nor receieve my permission and they did not attribute the posts to me.
This website appears to be doing the same thing with several other blogs as well. In addition, they have many Google ads, so they appear to be making money from using other peoples content. I am looking into this further. I wonder if they will take this post too?
Has anyone else had any problems with this website or anything similar?
**Updated** I have removed the web address of the splog, because I don't want to give them anymore publicity. A good definition of a splog is found here. I realized that many people are going onto the splog from here and giving them more page impressions, which makes them more money, which I do not want to help.
Anali's First Amendment © 2006-2007. All rights reserved.
Comments
Just checked the blog. What boring plagiarists. Fancy not having any material of one's own.
Hey I guess it is a backhanded compliment
The reason I suggest this is that he probably has hundreds of site similar to this one but only one adsense account between them. Cutting off the funding does a lot more damage than just killing his hosting.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me via the form on my site, I'll gladly help you out!
these spiked for awhile in huge ways in the last year or two (we saw a lot of them in ecommerce) and then Technorati cracked down on them.
there are fewer now, but they're still out there.
you may be able to report it to Technorati -- I'd give it a shot.
so sorry to hear it.
jonathan bailey - Welcome! Thanks for the information. I sent emails to Google Adsense, WordPress and Technorati. I hope that something will come of it, but I guess I have some more researching to do.
nance - This is so annoying!
suttonhoo - Thanks for the suggestion about Technorati. I emailed them too. I hope this will be easy to resolve.
This happens to me an awful lot. I find a lot of small blogs stealing posts word for word with no attributes. It drove me insane the first few times it happened and then I realized that they weren't getting any hits anyway.
The problem is that it's easy to copy and paste or use your rss feed to create a phony blog to generate some adsense hits. If you end up chasing down every site that does this however you'll just end up putting in far too much effort then it's worth in the long run.
Your blog is highly personalized so I don't think they are tricking anyone in the long run. (just the odd person who ends up there on a google search)
chris - I'm calming down a little now, but I was SO upset when I first saw this last night!! I guess I'm still upset, but I'm trying to not let it get to me.
plagiarismtoday.com covers this whole issue.
Someone copying more than your recipes?
Perhaps they are having a taste of green.
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karrie - I hope this one goes away soon!
mist1 - Welcome! I hate it too! Glad to help, although I would rather have not learned about it first hand. *sigh, sigh*
kaylee - I agree.
something from me - They have taken entire posts. Copy is actually the wrong word. It is the real post that they appear to have stolen from the RSS feed.
I guess on the other hand, Anali, that proves your greatness, but it sucks that it has to be plagiarized!
I hope you don't mind that's my new nickname for you... :) Hey it combines anaLI and LIsa....Both your namesakes!!
Thanks for stopping by! I appreciate the look out for me out on AKASHA! Good looking out LILI!
Also good looking out for us bloggers with this Baby thing.....
Have a good day!
AVIANA
tera - You would think that people would be ashamed to do such a thing, but I guess that's me being naive.
I only found out that my posts were stolen when I checked my Technorati links and saw a bunch of links to my other blog that weren't there before. It was totally random that I noticed, but I guess that is a good way to do it.
wheresmymind - Sorry to hear that. This is all just so wrong!
suldog - I guess this happens a lot. I was hoping that the site was taken down by WordPress, but as of a few minutes ago, it's still up.
lisa francisco - You must be psychic!!! Lili was my old online name!!! I thought about keeping Lili for this blog, but I decided that it was time for a change. I still love the name Lili though and part of me will always identify with it too! And that is how I pronounced it too!!! Wow!! Is this my past coming back?
amisha - Thanks. : ) Double ugh!
I have been noticing that many of my posts (from the Anthropology blog) are appearing on various other blogs/sites, but they always seem to give me credit, so I haven't objected to them using the content. Was the "Baby" blog not giving you credit for your posts?
lotus reads - Hi! This is very different from someone mentioning a post, even borrowing a quote and linking with attribution. This would be like going to someone's blog and seeing all of your full posts, pictures included, but none are attributed to you.
Per Google's instructions, the Complaint has to be either sent in writing with a signature or faxed to them with a signature. Also a number of specific statements must be written for them to take action. Hopefully now, they will remove their ads from this horrible site now.