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By: Publishing External RSS Headlines to Your Wordpress Site » Darren Hoyt Dot Com

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:16:23 +0000

[...] I wouldn’t advise republishing content from any old RSS feed, but sometimes there’s a reason. [...]

By: Hoodgrown_Magazine

Hoodgrown_Magazine — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:04:08 +0000

Great article. Learned a lot that I didn’t know. Implemented most of these suggestions last night.

By: 10 steps to a more splog-free WordPress blog | WordPressGarage.com

10 steps to a more splog-free WordPress blog | WordPressGarage.com — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:06:02 +0000

[...] some amazing tips from the people that responded. I also did a little extra searching around, plus Darren Hoyt wrote a post with some good links in it, so here’s a summary of 10 ways to stop [...]

By: Wednesday links 01-16-2008 | Real Central VA

Wednesday links 01-16-2008 | Real Central VA — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:27:52 +0000

[...] More tools in the battle versus sploggers. [...]

By: Miriam

Miriam — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:58:34 +0000

Oh, and by the way, that blog in the image above that was scraping your content was scraping mine too. I was looking at the other posts being scraped, and I thought “Wow, that blogger is writing some really interesting stuff. I’ve gotta find out who they are.” I guess it was you, but I couldn’t find any links in any of the posts back to your blog.

So may I make a suggestion - you should really put a footer on your feeds with a copyright notice and a link back to your blog. I just found a plugin that even allows you to automatically have a link back to the specific post. This way, if people are reading your content elsewhere, at least they can find you easily. It’s kind of a silver lining.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:54:43 +0000

Darren - I can’t believe you had to convince the Bee guys to give you credit! Their post was almost exactly the same as yours. That’s major chutzpah.

Those are really good tips you have in this post, and I’ve learned a lot about fighting splogs since I wrote the post you referred to here (thanks!). I’m going to write a round-up of strategies bloggers can use to fight sploggers, but I’m afraid that even with all these tricks and hacks, the sploggers will still have the upper hand.

I would say that maybe we should see this as a case of “imitation is the highest form of flattery,” but this is plain ol’ stealing that can even do serious harm if Google penalizes us for duplicate content.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:47:01 +0000

FIrst off, I agree that these sites are multiplying. But why wouldn’t they? All it takes is a script to set up a few thousand at a time. The nature of the beast is that they are much easier to create than close.

If you need any help with a specific case though, let me know. It is the least I can do after all you’ve helped me.

Speaking of which… That is cheating! “Peep that theme”, it’s Mimbo! Promoting your own work on the sly I see… lol

Seriously, thanks for the great theme. It took some customization to make it work for my sitebut it was remarkably flexible. Thank you very much for your hard work in this area! You’ve done more to improve Plagiarism Today than, well, probably even me.

Thank you.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:19:51 +0000

Great post - and some good ideas in the links on how to fight this.

It seems to me industry leaders like Google (that host free Blogs on Blogger) need to play a bigger role - given that majority of Blogger stuff is spam.

Of course there is some conflict of interest for them.