Scraping Sites and I Love Jake
The site http://www.comptoys.com/Affiliate+Marketing is stealing all the content from MoreMerchant.com. They are also scraping from many other blogs. They are probably stealing from your site as well. I reported them to Google, but who knows what will happen. At least give me a link if you are going to steal my stuff! Something like … Jake Rinard Rocks but I am going to steal all his great money making ideas anyway. This site is doing it through their Affiliate Marketing posts. How are they marketing? Is stealing the best way to market? Come on. Take a few minutes and write your own stuff. You can even hire someone for a few bucks a post to write your blog if you are so lame that you can’t.
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Hi,
I looked for the stolen content before leaving this comment because seeing in what form they are using it can be helpful. I could not find it at the link(s) you gave.
Nevertheless, I’ve had advice from one of the a-list bloggers on this. Don’t delay in getting your blog a copyright policy page with some bite, see:
http://www.doshdosh.com/copyright-regulations/
as an example.
IMHO a simple request to Maki of DoshDosh to use his copyright page as a template for you to personalize will probably get a “Yes, and go for it.”
*Meanwhile* this page at DoshDosh suggests specific measures you can take against the content stealer, and there are more than a few.
Good Luck,
Essie
I just had a look at that site, they’re so thick they even scrapped this post and others complaining that they scraped posts… like duh!
Jake I hate to hear that.
They need to get a life.
Happy new year 2008
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Unreal! How low can some people get. I wish you could just wipe them off the web…
Hm, I guess one of the options is to contact their host. Other then that I wouldn’t know because I’ve never experienced something like that.
Freakin hate the sploggers! Have recently discovered several .info domains scraping me and many more.
I wish adsense would be more strict on such sites.
OMG! They literally scraped every word. This has happened to me as well before and so what I did was add a statement at the end of my feed that asked anyone that is not reading my content on my site or in a reader then it is being stolen and to advise me of it.
Read my post about it here: Don’t be Robbed Blind by Content Thieves
Good Luck!
What a jerk, that’s really frustrating. Is there anything you can do besides tell google?
That sux, my content is also being stolen, well i think by MSENSE, I have no idea who they are
Dale
http://dzrbenson.com/blog/
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Hey Jake,
Don’t get to talk to ya much these days. But I did a little quick search on your scraper and check this out
http://whois.domaintools.com/comptoys.com
Take the registrar to task, man. These guys are true commercial scrapers.
Hi Jake,
It drives me crazy when I hear about this happening to people. It’s only happened to me once so far (that I’m aware of) and that really sent me over the edge.
I’ve since been trying to find some good examples of a copyright policy (like Maki’s linked above), but haven’t found much at all. Of course that won’t stop scrapers, but I just thought it might be good to have. Ever since I posted my experience with a content thief, I continue to get emails from him begging me to delete that post. Nope, not gonna do it. The Twit shouldn’t have pissed me off.