I have written to both blogs through the contact us page with a take down request, but haven't heard back from them yet...

If You’re Going to Rip Me Off, At Least Be Creative About It

The point it, that if somebody steals your content they will provide you with back-link to your site, and that's not that bad, right?

 

Not necessarily. Why would you want a garbage site linking back to you?

Although I agree with you, it had two effects. Since my RSS is full of links back to my site, they stopped scrapping my web site. At least I didn't find any evidence since. I know the link is not a good quality web site linking back to me, but along with a text that the site has stolen the content I think it is a good repellent.

And there is really somebody who reads that junk websites?

The point it, that if somebody steals your content they will provide you with back-link to your site, and that's not that bad, right?

Not necessarily. Why would you want a garbage site linking back to you?

Hi all! 

My site has been scraped and some weird site has been stealing my content for a few days. The site is only 2 weeks old so I imagine it could be easy to take it down, but have no idea how? google has a scraper reporting too but only seem interested in them if they rank higher than the original stuff.

do you take the complaint to the hosting site or to wordpress/blogger? I guess they violate T/Cs from both.

I appreciate your help!

Pauline, it happened to me too. If you use Wordpress, try installing a plugin named RSS footer. That will allow you to add a text which will be automatically appended to your RSS content and into that text I added the following text:

"This is an original content from http://www.helloscukers.net and if you read it elsewhere, it was stolen. Visit the original... blah blah blah"

The point it, that if somebody steals your content they will provide you with back-link to your site, and that's not that bad, right?

Nevertheless, after sometime scrapping stopped. maybe they didn't like providing me with a free link to my website. That's all I can say. Hope that helps.

Martin

As for if it's a waste of time - these are garbage sites that point back to yours.  Who can tell what the big G thinks, but if they start to consider links like these a type of network then you could get caught up in some sort of algo penalty.  It's a little work but you're better off cutting these weeds when they start.

Pauline, glad you resolved it. 

 

For anyone else battling with this issue, Robert has a great post on how to handle plagiarism, he even included the letter template to send out. Check it out -

How to handle blog plagiarism

thank you for that Suba, I'll have a look.

Hey Pauline,

 

Can you email me the site that stole your content?  I had a site two days ago take 45 posts from my site, word for word and everything.  I contacted the site owner via WHOIS, but received nothing back.  This is the 5th time this has happened to me and a DMCA takedown has done nothing. This person is calling his site a human edited directory, but is just stealing content.

it is blogpostdirectory dot com. Sorry to hear you got hit too. I don't even know the point of stealing personal content, a list post on ways to save on this or that why not but personal updates, really, what do they get with that?

the guy said he found me on technorati.

For anyone else battling with this issue, Robert has a great post on how to handle plagiarism, he even included the letter template to send out. Check it out -

How to handle blog plagiarism

Can you email me the site that stole your content?  I had a site two days ago take 45 posts from my site, word for word and everything.  I contacted the site owner via WHOIS, but received nothing back.  This is the 5th time this has happened to me and a DMCA takedown has done nothing. This person is calling his site a human edited directory, but is just stealing content.

I got a ping back from the b*ggers; was thinking of telling you but...

In my experience (and this of several other people) it is not worth doing much. Eventually these sites go out of 'business' and all is well. Otherwise you just waste energy.

Maria