Comments on: Pond Scum Scrapers: No More Ms. Nice Blogger! http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/ thrifty and creative | home and garden | ideas and experience Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:15:57 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Hot Gym Girl http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-6803 Hot Gym Girl Fri, 08 May 2009 06:42:30 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/#comment-6803 Thanks for all the great links. My lastest scraper is using both Host Gator and Godaddy, so that helps me go one less click. I have a feed scraper, and yes, he/she's stealing my posts with all pics intact. it pisses me the hell off. This is the second time i'm going through this. This one has been scraping me since February, and I just happened to find the duplicate content while checking my keyword results. I work hard to be original, and these dummies copy me just like they did back in high school. Lazy, cheating asses! It's a pain to track back and get all the copied materials, and then fire off all these letters, but ya just gotta do it. You have to! These idiots benefit from your hard work and SEO, and then jeopardize your page rank, etc in the process. Makes me SO mad! I just learned about setting my post feeds to summary instead of full, so that should at least put a crimp in his copying style. We'll see. Scrapers really just need their asses whooped. Wish I could get to 'em! ;) Thanks for all the great links. My lastest scraper is using both Host Gator and Godaddy, so that helps me go one less click. I have a feed scraper, and yes, he/she’s stealing my posts with all pics intact. it pisses me the hell off. This is the second time i’m going through this. This one has been scraping me since February, and I just happened to find the duplicate content while checking my keyword results.
I work hard to be original, and these dummies copy me just like they did back in high school. Lazy, cheating asses!
It’s a pain to track back and get all the copied materials, and then fire off all these letters, but ya just gotta do it. You have to! These idiots benefit from your hard work and SEO, and then jeopardize your page rank, etc in the process. Makes me SO mad!

I just learned about setting my post feeds to summary instead of full, so that should at least put a crimp in his copying style. We’ll see.
Scrapers really just need their asses whooped. Wish I could get to ‘em! ;)

]]> By: domestika http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-5241 domestika Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:06:50 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/#comment-5241 "Conditional responses based on the IP of the request," you say? Lord Matt, I think I'm in love. “Conditional responses based on the IP of the request,” you say?
Lord Matt, I think I’m in love.

]]> By: Lord Matt http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-5240 Lord Matt Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:04:25 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/#comment-5240 When some one started scrapping one of my sites I cheated. He was pulling it by feed so I fed him a spacial version. This special version declared his site to be full of stolen content and while he was at it he also published lots of affiliate links for me (wasn't that nice). Of course he also ended up with content that blatantly violated his adsense ToS (because I "fed" it to him) and then I reported him right where it hurts - the income stream. I also tracked down the other people that were having their content stolen and dropped them a fat hint. Funnily enough a few weeks went buy before he noticed that his site was full of stuff that did not pay but by then it was in the Google cache for the next three to six months. Had he not got the hint I had a nice list of vulnerabilities to his website that I was going to cause him to publish. I think he probably guessed though because... well we technical enthusiasts need some secrets. There were a whole bunch of "dark side of the geek" things that I refused to do but I did not they could be done. The power of being a geek. ;) It's a good post and a good collection of resources. To pull the separate feed for the scum trick ask your nearest web geek about conditional responses based on the IP of the request. When some one started scrapping one of my sites I cheated. He was pulling it by feed so I fed him a spacial version. This special version declared his site to be full of stolen content and while he was at it he also published lots of affiliate links for me (wasn’t that nice). Of course he also ended up with content that blatantly violated his adsense ToS (because I “fed” it to him) and then I reported him right where it hurts – the income stream.

I also tracked down the other people that were having their content stolen and dropped them a fat hint.

Funnily enough a few weeks went buy before he noticed that his site was full of stuff that did not pay but by then it was in the Google cache for the next three to six months.

Had he not got the hint I had a nice list of vulnerabilities to his website that I was going to cause him to publish. I think he probably guessed though because… well we technical enthusiasts need some secrets. There were a whole bunch of “dark side of the geek” things that I refused to do but I did not they could be done.

The power of being a geek. ;)

It’s a good post and a good collection of resources. To pull the separate feed for the scum trick ask your nearest web geek about conditional responses based on the IP of the request.

]]> By: Weeding Out The Scrapers | Daily Tech Bits http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-5239 Weeding Out The Scrapers | Daily Tech Bits Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:05:38 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/#comment-5239 [...] to say, you don’t have to take this lying down.  Jen shows you how to fight back in Pond Scum Scrapers: No More Ms Nice Blogger. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and [...] [...] to say, you don’t have to take this lying down.  Jen shows you how to fight back in Pond Scum Scrapers: No More Ms Nice Blogger. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and [...]

]]> By: Dianne Murphy-Rodgers http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-5234 Dianne Murphy-Rodgers Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:24:00 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/#comment-5234 For some reason my computer let me visit via your tweet link yesterday, which I couldn't find this morning but then remembered I'd saved this page in my favourites ... fantastic! I love Domestik Goddess and I really enjoy your writing. Sorry to hear you missed out on sunshine and so much of your weekend, and that your lovely plans were ruined! :o( Thank you for sharing such great advice and some excellent resources. :o) For some reason my computer let me visit via your tweet link yesterday, which I couldn’t find this morning but then remembered I’d saved this page in my favourites … fantastic! I love Domestik Goddess and I really enjoy your writing.

Sorry to hear you missed out on sunshine and so much of your weekend, and that your lovely plans were ruined! :o (

Thank you for sharing such great advice and some excellent resources.

:o )

]]> By: beadinggem http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-5233 beadinggem Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:57:58 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/#comment-5233 I too have been a victim of scrapers. I now put in my website signature inside the post itself, at the end - a tip from a technology blogger. It seems to help. The signature clearly shows the source of the article. Some of these scrappers try and pass off the article as theirs so this way, the reader will know it didn't come from them. I too have been a victim of scrapers. I now put in my website signature inside the post itself, at the end – a tip from a technology blogger. It seems to help. The signature clearly shows the source of the article. Some of these scrappers try and pass off the article as theirs so this way, the reader will know it didn’t come from them.

]]> By: Arachne Jericho http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-5232 Arachne Jericho Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:40:24 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/#comment-5232 I hate scrapers too. Often they do feed back to me one way or another, with RSS footer that I added, but sometimes not. I hate scrapers too. Often they do feed back to me one way or another, with RSS footer that I added, but sometimes not.

]]> By: Sharon Hurley Hall - Get Paid To Write Online http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-5211 Sharon Hurley Hall - Get Paid To Write Online Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:58:07 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/#comment-5211 Great list of resources, Jen, and I feel your pain. This happens to me all the time, but I don't have the time to track down every single one. I wish I could hire someone to handle all the paperwork, while I get on with being a WAHM. Great list of resources, Jen, and I feel your pain. This happens to me all the time, but I don’t have the time to track down every single one. I wish I could hire someone to handle all the paperwork, while I get on with being a WAHM.

]]> By: Shelli http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-5210 Shelli Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:48:17 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/#comment-5210 This has been a source of great frustration for me. I have asked them to stop. I have blocked IPs and ranted and raved about it to anyone who would listen. Thank you for this. I have checked back on these blogs that have stolen my stuff from time to time and in most cases, the blogs weren't around after a week or so. Probably because of people like you. Thank you again. This has been a source of great frustration for me. I have asked them to stop. I have blocked IPs and ranted and raved about it to anyone who would listen. Thank you for this. I have checked back on these blogs that have stolen my stuff from time to time and in most cases, the blogs weren’t around after a week or so. Probably because of people like you. Thank you again.

]]> By: Guilherme Zühlke O'Connor http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-5197 Guilherme Zühlke O'Connor Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:46:48 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/pond-scum-scrapers-rant/#comment-5197 These scrappers are really more than an annoyance, they should burn in hell! Nice links list in this post. These scrappers are really more than an annoyance, they should burn in hell!

Nice links list in this post.

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