Comments on: Blog Plagiarism Q&A

By: Natalie

Natalie — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:54:41 +0000

Lets say someone did want to take legal action. How can you prove which site posted the origal content , espically if they scrapper you and post your conten the same day.
Thaks

By: unsure

unsure — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:10:17 +0000

ok, I’m actually trying to make sure I’m not plagiarising and asking for help. I found a website that is run by a company, but it opens up at the end of the article to “comments”. One individuals comments were very well put along with some very good statistics on the particular subject. I am in the process of writing letters to representatives and want to include some of his statistics he posted……is that considered plagiarism? Does anybody know where I could do to find out?

By: Bang Kritikus

Bang Kritikus — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:42:10 +0000

i hate plagiarism

By: dimaks

dimaks — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:32:46 +0000

i saw this scraping thing a while ago.. well, what can you say about set up blogs, equipped with blog posts harvesting bots? the worst thing is, there is no link being retained.. or perhaps they set it to kill all copied urls in the fetched entry.

By: Ciara Carruthers

Ciara Carruthers — Sun, 04 May 2008 08:36:37 +0000

I think it really is so damn annoying that it’s quite difficult to not waste too much energy on the pursuit of ‘taking that person down’. In reality, these people that steal other’s content will not last long (I hope), and certainly, if they are stealing other people’s content, they are doing other things such as keyword stuffing or methods which Google don’t approve off. It would be rare to find one of these people who is actually a long term success. (Wishful thinking from somebody who believes in Karma.) So although contacting them is good, wasting too much time and energy, is not.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:42:25 +0000

Thanks for all the great feedback, everyone. I’ve revised the original article above with the most noteworthy points. Feel free to keep the discussion going and I’ll be glad to update as more tips come into play.

By: Deborah Ng

Deborah Ng — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:57:20 +0000

Great post, I agree with most of your point. I followed up at About Weblogs with my own comments, if you’re interested.

By: Moses Francis

Moses Francis — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:53:20 +0000

Thanks for the article, i’ve been facing this problem with some of my blogs, now at least i a little more knowledge on how to deal with such sites.

By: Tejvan - net writing

Tejvan - net writing — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:02:37 +0000

Unfortunately it is not always the case that scrappers get low search engine ranking.

I submitted an article to digg, that soon got buried. A scrapper copied and dugg same article and it got to front page. The scrapper got all the links and credit from Google. I didn’t bother chasing it further because I thought it would be fruitless, But reading this maybe I should have done.

By: Ramkarthik

Ramkarthik — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:43:46 +0000

I agree Daniel. Ill read the article you have mentioned there now. As you said I don’t think we can stop plagiarism no matter what we do.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:57:45 +0000

By: Ramkarthik

Ramkarthik — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:25:40 +0000

Stephen, we can use copyright icons to prevent other people from copying. Feedburner has some copyrights icon. Even if you go to copyscape.com, you’ll find a good way to stop plagiarism.

Nice post.

By: Bret

Bret — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:42:52 +0000

I have to admit, I’ve been pretty ignorant to content scrapers. Up to now I thought the worst thing I had to deal with was the steady flow of comment spam. This post has certainly been an eye opener for me. Looks like I’ll have do as suggested to see if someone us scraping me or not. Thanks Daniel.

By: Molli Fire

Molli Fire — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:14:31 +0000

Thanks for putting all of these tips into one place. This is a great resource to refer to again and again.
In addition to reporting scrapers to google and hosts, if they happen to be on wordpress.com (I have seen a few) WordPress accepts feedback about abuse and will contact the blog owner, sometimes even deleting the blog.
I get scraped pretty much daily, and I don’t have time to report it usually. I wish there was a plugin like Akismet that would handle this like it handles my spam comments! THAT would be a grand invention!

By: Matt Mikulla

Matt Mikulla — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:58:42 +0000

As an artist I worry about this every once and a while but never too much. Someone could easily poach an image of mine and display it on their website, but the images would never be quality enough to print. I make my off of prints so there is not much to worry about.

RIpping off text is a different issue. The text remains perfectly intact as does the context.

No matter what the medium is we as content creators, must be proactive in protecting the rights we have associated with our content.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:21:15 +0000

Good thing search engines are starting to treat sploggers and scrapers harshly.

This alone should have a tangible impact on their incentive to rip stuff since most of those sites are using Adsnese to generate some money from organic traffic.