Comments on: Poaching Blog Posts

By: wilhelm2451

wilhelm2451 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:05:25 +0000

This is part of the reason I tend to be self-referential in my own posts, often linking back to other posts on my site. That way, when some site snaffles the post I at least get a ping-back to let me know and sometimes send a bit of traffic my way. That and I like to recycle my old content.

There was a site that was ripping posts about Pirates of the Burning Seas off from Potshot and I at one point. Fat lot of good it did them in the long run I bet!

By: Gordon

Gordon — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:04:11 +0000

@Brendon I guess plagiary doesn’t worry me so much because I feel that part of what makes blogs unique is their writing styles and personalities. Someone might be able to steal the idea in a post but they can’t steal the voice behind it. Unless they just rip and re-purpose the RSS feed that is

By: Brendon

Brendon — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:06:01 +0000

On the bright side, at least it’s an obvious “quick buck stealing content” site. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve seen well-visited blogs steal content I (or someone I worked with) wrote. THAT’S when it gets REALLY depressing, because suddenly you don’t know how many articles on said site are original, and how many are plagiarized.

By: Jeremy S.

Jeremy S. — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:55:40 +0000

Yeah, i consider it no better than a scamming site.

On a similar note, I hate how 3 of my last months posts had eerily similar posts on Massively, like a day after each of my posts.

Oh well, I guess I should be proud, if it’s not all just coincidental.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:33:00 +0000

Aye, I’d certainly prefer that places went above board and honest, like those who wanted to properly attribute you as author. I’m in agreement with the principle.

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By: Nelson Minar

Nelson Minar — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:03:09 +0000

Yeah, this is a particularly sleazy kind of ad spam on the Internet. This site’s adds are coming from snap.com, if you feel like filing a complaint it may help a litle.

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By: Gordon

Gordon — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:41:10 +0000

@Bill G Presumably once that starts to happen though more people notice and then complain and try to get Google to block the site or the ISP to shut it down. At least I’d hope so anyway. Otherwise I thought I would’ve seen this thing a lot more. It’s a pretty low tactic anyway IMO.

By: Bill G

Bill G — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:09:43 +0000

The biggest potential problem for folks trying to run their site as a business is that depending on your site’s level of search optimization, the copying site might appear *above* yours in search results. That’s a downer for your own site’s traffic.

Even for folks not running their site as a business, losing those potential visitors to a copying site just sucks.