December 20, 2005
Splogs.
Does anyone have any advice about what a blogger can do about those blog-looking things that just steal a blogger's material in its entirety to create a site with a sidebar full of links? I unwittingly discovered a way to detect these things: when you link to one of your own old posts, the thing will show up in Technorati as another blog linking to you. But I can't think of what to do once I've found it. And, no, I'm not going to link to one.
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Report the site at SplotReporter or Splogspot.
Esk: I don't see how Splogspot does anything to get rid of the site. It seems to end up giving it a link. Why does that do any good? It says it's helping people determine the "genuity" of sites. Doesn't seem very helpful or powerful. "Splotreporter" I couldn't find. These sites look like they are about protecting yourself from going to these places, but I'm interested in stopping them from stealing my work and from hurting my good name.
"Genuinty" -- sorry I misspelled their made-up word.
Laurence: I don't know what you're talking about. If that's a joke, I'm not techy enough to get it.
If its a blogspot splog, then be sure to Flag it so it can be reviewed by Blogger. Also be sure that any of your feeds don't provide the full content in them (only a summary). This won't fully remove the problem, but will limit it I think. Otherwise not much to do unless you want to get rid of your feeds all together which would suck. I'm assuming that the content is delivered to the splog using your feed, which may not be correct.
I've found several sites like that, and also several that do the same thing with Usenet group postings I've made. I've thought about sending a DMCA take-down notice to their ISPs, as they are infringing on the copyrighted posts. You can find good example letters from the Chilling Effects.org website. Although that site is generally hostile to the DMCA, it contains many wonderful examples of such notices sent by attorneys for the big and powerful; why not crib from the best (or at least the most expensive)?
gerry - ty, yes that was a typo on my part.
Ann: It won't get rid of the site but it will flag it as a splog site. This will get it excluded from search results. Without showing up in searches - they get no traffic and become obsolete. It may not be the ideal solution - but, unfortunately it's the only one available for now. Hope this helps.
Nick: I've got a real problem which is that I'm trying to keep my feeds from having the full content, but the full content keeps going out. I've checked and rechecked the boxes, republished, and written to Blogger about it. It's driving me nuts! If someone could solve that problem, I'd be home free on this!
Ah! I think I solved it. I turned off the feed, republished, then turned it back on (with "short" checked, of course). Now I think only the short is going out. Great!!! My concern about splogs is MUCH changed now.
By the way the splogs that were abusing me were not on Blogspot, they were on libsys.
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