Comments on: How To Deal With Sites That Steal Your Blog Content

By: TruSpeaks

TruSpeaks — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:55:14 +0000

I think it's important to try to contact the blogger directly first. To be honest some people really don't know. I've reposted an item before and linked to another bloggers website (I didn't post the entire article) but I have said “Hey readers I really like this article here's a taste and here is a link to the original author.” So in somecases it could be an unintended foul.

By: Lewis Write

Lewis Write — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:45:30 +0000

Dave I agree 100% on people stealing content via RSS. But is that not what RSS syndication is for? The reason i ask this is because I follow many bloggers like yourself who I admire, and learn from. I want to pass this knowledge to my readership, so I like to use excerpts from well known bloggers, and refer my readers back to the originator of the post. Correct me if I wrong here but is there really any truly original ideas or thoughts online or expansion, or different interpretations of that info by others. thx/lew

By: Adam | Rodent Control Specialist

Adam | Rodent Control Specialist — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:25:10 +0000

This happened to me a few times when I first started blogging. Sure, I got a couple of links out of it. But I worked hard on those posts and they belong on the site where I published them.

By: The Scrub

The Scrub — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:57:56 +0000

I read this post when you first published it, then not even three weeks later I have someone skimming an entire post from me without attribution or linking back.

I’m not too worried about it, but I just thought it was a weird coincidence. I’m doing #5, unless they make a habit of it. Then I’ll send in Rambo.

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By: embarrassed

embarrassed — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:23:22 +0000

I know I was not the person you were referring to but… Mr. Risley I am embarrassed to admit that I have on one occasion used one of your articles on my website but not for the purpose of ripping you off or stealing from you, and maybe that is my naivety showing through. One of your articles was so spot on that I just could not hold myself back from having my readers see it, no matter how few they may have been. I surely didn’t think that your article would propel my site into the traffic blogesphere because your article was already out there, by you, and so what could I gain with the search engines by duplicating it. When I placed your article on my website I made sure to include your name and website for readers to be able to follow up on it, thinking that because I was such a big fan why shouldn’t others have the same opportunity.
In doing so it was not done with any malice or with a purpose of gaining anything from it, I’m small time and not even your article will raise my traffic through the roof or even bump it up a notch or two. But believe me when I say I did not use it for personal gain, just in a belief of what you had to say. I guess I went about it the wrong way, chalk it up to another lesson learned. But I do not think everyone uses an article because they want to enhance their site, some of us do so (did so) because we believed in something the author had to say and thought by making all the references to that author and including the links would have sufficed. Sorry for my stupidity. But just out of curiosity the question beggs to be asked, had I asked to use your article, would you have said, yes? And if not, how would you rather I have approached this in the first place?
Thanks – it won’t happen again.

By: Farrhad A

Farrhad A — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:55:45 +0000

I have had this problem, many times. But I have just let it go. It really makes no difference, as barely anyone visits those blogs.

By: Portland Roofer

Portland Roofer — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:10:27 +0000

Maybe it’s potentially a good thing if your business needs to spread a bit in order to establish a foothold in the market though?

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By: Dian

Dian — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:21:22 +0000

why didn’t u just create a signature on your feed? so if someone scrapped of your feed the reader would know the original sources is