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Dealing With Content Scrapers

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usedcar Last week I found yet another Scraper Scraping my RSS Feed. The way I found it? Google Alerts.

As I mentioned long ago, I check for Work at Home topics , to see what is happening in the world of Home Business and just to keep current overall about the subject.

I found something that looked familiar, yet somehow strange. I saw a caption from my post “This Weeks Helpful Reads… Week 68” except for one thing. It was posted on someone elses Blog. Their URL. Their everything.

I went to the actual Blog and the only thing there was my full post including good ole Albert and Lots and Lots of AdSense Ads. There was a link to a Free Money Making site listed in the “Home” section.

I located a Contact form there to apply for a Free AdSense site and sent a fairly nasty eMail. I Told, not Asked, them to take the Fake Site Down or I would take whatever steps necessary to get them to comply.

Fortunately, the complied and the site (at least that particular one) was taken down within a couple of days.

So my suggestion to you would be to find a way to follow your own posts through some type of Keyword Tracking. As I mentioned, I use Google Alerts. And when you find something that is being scraped, contact them or their host system if you can find it.

Don’t let the Scrapers get away with Stealing Your Content!


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    September 5th, 2007 at 01:24pm | Posted by Joe | RSS, Rants, Scams and Legitimate | 2 reader remarks | Print This Post