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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!

That's scary! I can't give you any advice but when you find out, I hope you report  back!

That sucks Pauline. Since it has been happening for a few days I would submit a takedown request and see if you can contact the host as well. I know Google doesn't always take action but I've had the same thing in the past and have had a middling success with it.

I actually had one today. Some character tweeted me on Monday saying he loved my site and one post in particular. I woke up this morning to a pingback and the character stole the post word for word. I submitted a take down request and hoping they'll take action.

FrugalRules said:

That sucks Pauline. Since it has been happening for a few days I would submit a takedown request and see if you can contact the host as well. I know Google doesn't always take action but I've had the same thing in the past and have had a middling success with it.

 

I actually had one today. Some character tweeted me on Monday saying he loved my site and one post in particular. I woke up this morning to a pingback and the character stole the post word for word. I submitted a take down request and hoping they'll take action.

Sorry to hear you got it too, this guy started to scrap a website I had linked to, and since he also copied my carnival I am afraid he will hit many other PF blogs. I have contacted the host, let's see..the site itself, of course, has no contact page and info@, contact@ etc don't work.

the blog owner replied via whois, apparently I am an idiot who doesn't know the first thing about SEO and all kinds of stupid for not letting him "help generate traffic, back links, and improve your SEO for free". But at least he took down the posts.

I read an interesting case on this type of activity the other day:

Mahalo Case Study

Apparently, some website that I've never heard of called Mahalo will leech content and Google does nothing about it.

Pauline,

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

debtroundup said:

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.

Robert's post is excellent.  One thing you want to do is make sure you include every instance of stolen content.  You need to list every url that has violated a copyright.  I also discovered that GoDaddy wants you to list every page of you own that was stolen from as well (other hosts have been fine with the offending urls).

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.