Yakezie.com - Topic: Blog Plagiarism

Peerform-Blog on Blog Plagiarism

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:59:40 +0000

Hey! Great info!

On other hand, it is also a compliment because it means you are producing quality writing that people would want to steal in the first place! (although they should just link to your post instead of taking credit for it).

chevy_chick95 on Blog Plagiarism

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 07:15:04 +0000

great post. I've never had to deal with this, but always great info to have.

OneCentAtatime on Blog Plagiarism

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 05:23:56 +0000

l though I am not a victim of plagiarism yet, but Sandy's method is very helpful, bookmarked that google link

101 Centavos on Blog Plagiarism

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:22:11 +0000

The College Investor said:

Given what has been happening across the blogosphere, I wrote a post about how to prevent people from stealing your content, and what you can do if someone does steal it.

Please check it out and promote. I think this problem is getting worse, and we need to get the word out to be vigilent.

http://thecollegeinvestor.com/.....r-content/

Thanks!

Good article - I haven't had to deal with this yet (or maybe I do and don't know it ), so I've bookmarked as a resource.

Sandy @ yesiamcheap on Blog Plagiarism

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:12:27 +0000

I've seen those too but I tend to ignore them because they haven't scraped the entire content and they usually won't rank.

Frugal Confessions on Blog Plagiarism

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:06:58 +0000

How horrible Sandy! That was a great post you wrote--I guess copying is a terrible form of flattery. I am glad you are seeing results.

What about sites that post article verbatims but just the first paragraph and then a link to the original post? That happens to me all the time, but I haven't done anything about it yet.

Khaleef @ KNS Financial on Blog Plagiarism

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:59:16 +0000

That's really good to know, Sandy. Especially for those types of posts!

Sandy @ yesiamcheap on Blog Plagiarism

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:13:30 +0000

Going through the host is best but a lot of these scraper sites are now out of the country with some not too reputable hosting companies and they don't always respond, so that doesn't always work.

Google requires them to remove the stolen content, not the entire site if they have Adsense.
If the site does not have Adsense and does not voluntarily remove the stolen content within 2 days of notification, the entire site is delisted from search.
If the site is a Blogger site, they also have to remove the offending content of the site gets shut down

Don't despair folks, Google is getting better.

My Personal Finance Journey on Blog Plagiarism

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 04:51:03 +0000

That's great to hear that they responded so quickly!

Did Google require that they remove just that one post or the entire site that did the plagiarism?

The College Investor on Blog Plagiarism

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:17:21 +0000

Google is great if the thief has AdSense on their site. If they don't, you can go through the host!

Hunter @financiallyc on Blog Plagiarism

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:16:28 +0000

Sandy, that's a great outcome. It's encouraging that Google has been so responsive in this case.

Sandy @ yesiamcheap on Blog Plagiarism

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:00:01 +0000

Sharing my experience.

I wrote a post on Extreme Couponing which took me about a week to research and compile. When I did a Google search I found no less than 10 different sites with my exact post copied verbatim. I had been scraped! Anyway I filled out a DMCA request with Google about a week ago expecting nothing to happen.

Today all except one have removed the articles since they had Adsense blocks and the one without is being delisted from search. I typically wouldn't care, but the problem for me was that one article ranked right under mine and on Yahoo one actually ranked right before mine. That particular article was created with the purpose of targeting for keywords and making some money which it is doing. Others, I care much less about.

If you need the link here it is.

http://www.google.com/support/.....ct=adsense

moneysmarts on Blog Plagiarism

Sat, 21 May 2011 08:34:41 +0000

Part of the biggest problem I've noticed is that even if you do DMCA remove requests for a lot of these sites, nothing happens because a lot of them are based overseas, and a lot of the newer ones aren't using adsense - so you can't report them to google for that. Yes, google will remove them from search rankings if you report specific posts, but reporting those posts every day does get tedious. I foresee this becoming a bigger issue from overseas content mills and thieves, unless and until google and other search engines can better identify the copied content and remove it or penalize it.

Buy Like Buffett on Blog Plagiarism

Fri, 13 May 2011 09:28:29 +0000

Very useful because there is more and more siphoning of content.

The Single Saver on Blog Plagiarism

Fri, 13 May 2011 06:05:59 +0000

The College Investor said:

The Single Saver said:

I apologize as this response has nothing to do with the topic (but I did read your article and it was excellent!). But I am a little desperate here and this was the only place I was being permitted to post. Yakezie won't let me log in. Well, it lets me but then it says I am not logged in. ??? And it will only show me as logged in on random topics, and not on others or on the main page. Is anyone else having this trouble? I have experienced now on a Mac and on a PC using two different internet providers. HELP!

They are having issues with a cache plugin upgrade right now...hopefully it will be fixed soon!

This is getting frustrating. I still am not being seen as 'logged in' on about half the posts here. And there are topics I want to comment on! Grrr..... And on top of that, Blogger is acting up, too. Maybe today just needs to be a blog-free day for me - though the Yakezie problems have been going on more than a day so I am not sure how much good ignoring it today will do me! :)