In the continuing battle of people misusing the internet, first we had spammers, then comment spammers, now I’ve noticed a few sites taking content from here (like I get enough traffic that makes it worth stealing) and using it to create splogs. They take a few blog entries and then plaster as many ads on the new site as possible in the vain hope of earning a few pence. Honestly the people who do this sort of thing must have very much more time on their hands than they know what to do with, I just can’t see how it makes economic sense to do it.
Anyway, at the moment my morning routine involves sending a policy violation email to Google so that the thieving assholes don’t get any Adsense revenue for the stolen content, then I contact their hosting company to tell them about the site as well. It’s very labour intensive but at the moment it’s only one or two sites a day. Does anyone have a better way of dealing with them?
hey Matt – how do you know if they are splogging you? I never checked for my site
I’ve got a couple of Google Alerts set up to monitor references to my sites.
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