Using Content Scraper Sites To Your Advantage, Well Maybe
SEM General October 4th. 2007, 1:32am 
You take the time and put in the effort to write great content for your site, once you have published it you then realize another site has just published the exact same content on there website. This happens in a matter of seconds after publishing your content, and think to yourself how is that possible. Well it is quite easy since your RSS feed is publishing a full article for each post you make, that website just scrapes your content from your feed and republishes it on there site. This has happened recently to both myself and Maki over at DoshDosh. The site gives us credit on the side for being so called contributors, however straight up theft of content is a far cry from any contribution on my part. What can really be done about this though? There are not running any ads on the site, I do not see any form to where they are trying to capture any information, except maybe the email box for feedburner which could be fake. Anyhow what can be done about this? You can try and complain to there hosting company by doing a whois on the domain name and seeing who the NS servers belong to. I do not see that working really in the long run, but its a shot. You could send a cease and desist order to them, but there whois information is hidden and there is no contact information so you can try and send one to the hosting company.
Well i am not going to do any of that, instead I am putting in each of my post where it originated from and links back to this site. Yes I understand about the duplicate content issue at hand, but I want to see what the engines do in the coming weeks/month with this other website and my content. A few things I am trying out is using the term search engine marketing blog as my anchor text for my site. I am using absolute URL’s in all of my post’s and I am considering adding other links to posts on this blog. I am not sure how well this is going to work since it is duplicate content, we shall see. What would you do about a website that is scraping content straight from your RSS feed?
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