Ronaldo (1)How to deal with article thefts and content scrapers
Content thefts and scrapers are more menacing than spammers. Spammers steal bandwidth, link juice and precious time in dealing with them, but article thefts and scrapers rob you the “essence” of your hardwork.
How many times do the topics article theft and content scraping were discussed in various forum and blogs – I am not so sure but one thing I know of is that many bloggers fell victims from this unscrupulous individuals whose intentions are simply to cheat and earn some traffic and money at the expense of other people.
I have admitted several times here in my blog that putting my thoughts into writing is always a challenge as I am not gifted with such talent. However, no matter how flawed my articles are (construction, grammar, punctuation, etc.), I take pride for each content I publish because of the great amount of effort and time I spent just to come up with one.
I have seen some of my articles in many other websites and blogs, but mostly are just excerpts and these people are kind enough to put the link back to my site – which I find fair even if these guys hijack some traffic from my blog.
However, what’s very disappointing is to see your article published “verbatim”, even the title is copied. Normally, I just don’t mind it at all – what can I do? Many of these people are from other countries there’s no way I can go after them.
But it’s different when you know the scraper and is a local blogger. It’s more than enough to ruin your day and easily lose your respect on the person. I would be grateful if you like my article despite of it’s “shortcomings”. A few changes to the title and a tiny link back to my site will be more than enough to “flatter” me, in case you want to publish it on your site.
So how to deal with these content thefts who are enjoying the traffic from your very own article?
1. Just ignore them.What’s the point of calling their attention? They knew right from the start that what they are doing is bad.
2. If you can’t ignore them, blog about them but as much as possible, don’t mention names and give them the chance to apologize for offending you so dearly.
3. If they ignore you, then you are free to do whatever means necessary to get back at them. I will not divulge here what those things are – just email me if you want to know.
Lastly, you may consider submitting their sites/blogs in my brand-new spam site submission based on a very crazy idea of getting back at spammers and scrapers. Check out www.spamdomains.org.
And yeah, I’m outraged and furious and mad! LOL…
pare ang puso mo… hinay hinay lang
Turo mo kung sino ipa-drum naten sa Mafia Wars
pare!!!! musta na.. Hehehe. Kelan ba tayo magkita kita kits… ? nawala mobile number mo, di na kita nakontak…
Uu nga pare, hirap din esp pag kilala mo din yung kumuha ng article mo na wala man lang paalam… Di bale na. Hehe, pasko naman eh.
i hope that blogger will pass by here again and learn of his mistake. pwede ra man unta istoryahon, kaysa mangopya. he understands this.
Nyay, seems like you know him ah.. Hinaut unta. Pwede ra man na ma estoryahan sa usa ka dosenang kahong beer ba. Apilan nalang pud sumsuman.
I have been a victim of article theft. I don’t mind if someone uses one of my articles as long as they provide opinion or commentary and not copy word for word.
Great article!
Hello bro, I used copyscape and found out who… I’ve been in your position and I can still remember the feeling when my blood pressure shot up then.
Even my wife is able to catch some websites who copy my articles and provide no source or linkback at all. Sabi ko na lang i-review niya ang intellectual property code of the Philippines just in case kailangan kong gamitin ang pagka abogado niya.
[...] Scraping contents will never do you any good, nor will it earn you respect of both your readers and co-bloggers over time. Splogs or spam blogs will be punished by Google especially if you’re on a Blogger platform as these types of blogs would easily get deleted. [...]
I was really disappointed when I saw another blog who just copied my article verbatim and even ranked higher than I do in the search engines when I searched for the specific keywords. I contacted them (one local and one international). Guess what?
The international responded while the local ignored me! Dang it, I really hate it. So does Google. After a week, my article ranked higher than both of them! I could only marvel at Google’s intelligence.