Comments on: Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:18:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: How to Add MyFreeCopyright To Your WordPress Blog | This Is The Maverick Of Blogs http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-720693 How to Add MyFreeCopyright To Your WordPress Blog | This Is The Maverick Of Blogs Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:28:12 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-720693 [...] Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers [...] [...] Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers [...]

]]> By: How to Add MyFreeCopyright To Your WordPress Blog « Lorelle on WordPress http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-625251 How to Add MyFreeCopyright To Your WordPress Blog « Lorelle on WordPress Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:17:35 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-625251 [...] Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers [...] [...] Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers [...]

]]> By: War against content slammers http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-492288 War against content slammers Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:20:22 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-492288 [...] use digital printing for your feed. Read more about it in this post from Blog Herald. [...] [...] use digital printing for your feed. Read more about it in this post from Blog Herald. [...]

]]> By: Cleaning Blogspot Spam: Is Google Responding to Public Pressure? : The Blog Herald http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-380628 Cleaning Blogspot Spam: Is Google Responding to Public Pressure? : The Blog Herald Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:30:59 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-380628 [...] through page after page of spam blogs and splogs, much containing copyright violating content and spinning spammers, although most of it was totally unintelligible collections of [...] [...] through page after page of spam blogs and splogs, much containing copyright violating content and spinning spammers, although most of it was totally unintelligible collections of [...]

]]> By: Breaking Trust: How Not To Link to a Plagiarist : The Blog Herald http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-359539 Breaking Trust: How Not To Link to a Plagiarist : The Blog Herald Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:23:12 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-359539 [...] Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers [...] [...] Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers [...]

]]> By: Can Spammers Legally Steal Your Blog Content? | Internet Marketing Blog http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-302661 Can Spammers Legally Steal Your Blog Content? | Internet Marketing Blog Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:41:52 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-302661 [...] also found an article over at The Blog Herald that touches on just about every aspect of content theft including how to report it to Google [...] [...] also found an article over at The Blog Herald that touches on just about every aspect of content theft including how to report it to Google [...]

]]> By: Links für den 15.11.2007 | virtuatron::weblog http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-297653 Links für den 15.11.2007 | virtuatron::weblog Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:56:54 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-297653 [...] Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers : The Blog Herald [...] [...] Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers : The Blog Herald [...]

]]> By: Jonathan Bailey http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-290854 Jonathan Bailey Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:15:14 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-290854 Spewb: As true as that is, the process is much more complicated. To get almost anything done under the CFAA you have to get an attorney, file an injunction and jump through legal hoops. The DMCA is as simple as a sheet of paper and takes less than 48 hours. It is a good alternative though, something to consider. Spewb: As true as that is, the process is much more complicated. To get almost anything done under the CFAA you have to get an attorney, file an injunction and jump through legal hoops. The DMCA is as simple as a sheet of paper and takes less than 48 hours.

It is a good alternative though, something to consider.

]]> By: Spewb http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-289860 Spewb Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:43:34 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-289860 Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which forbids exceeding authorized access to a computer with the intent to defraud the host of the blogging site can bust the scrappers not for plagiarizing your work but for having these guys access their servers repeatedly for the purpose of scrapping ( an act that is against almost everyone's terms of service). Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which forbids exceeding authorized access to a computer with the intent to defraud the host of the blogging site can bust the scrappers not for plagiarizing your work but for having these guys access their servers repeatedly for the purpose of scrapping ( an act that is against almost everyone’s terms of service).

]]> By: Spinning Spammers Steal Our Blog Content | BigDadGib.net http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-261582 Spinning Spammers Steal Our Blog Content | BigDadGib.net Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:15:02 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-261582 [...] Jonathan Bailey’s article offers some tips and techniques for handling and fighting against these spinning spammers, and my article, What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content, contains the steps to take to stop copyright violators. [...] [...] Jonathan Bailey’s article offers some tips and techniques for handling and fighting against these spinning spammers, and my article, What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content, contains the steps to take to stop copyright violators. [...]

]]> By: Netsensei » Blog Archive » links for 2007-11-21 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-259919 Netsensei » Blog Archive » links for 2007-11-21 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:20:51 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-259919 [...] Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers (tags: blogging spam copyright) [...] [...] Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers (tags: blogging spam copyright) [...]

]]> By: Spinning Spammers — Full Time in NM http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-257918 Spinning Spammers — Full Time in NM Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:52:10 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-257918 [...] I find it hard to believe someone would want to steal my blog content. However when I saw a WordPress blog entry on it I had to stop and take a peek. What happens to your innocent blog article? Someone takes it, scapes it, modifies it, and republishes it claiming it for themselves. Now that’s my content someone else regurgitates on to their website. Called spinning, someone runs your content through an algorithm that can involve using a thesaurus to find synonyms for the words in question or an automatic translation program to convert the work into another language, possibly then converting it back to English. The Blog Herald has a great article aboutProtecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers. [...] [...] I find it hard to believe someone would want to steal my blog content. However when I saw a WordPress blog entry on it I had to stop and take a peek. What happens to your innocent blog article? Someone takes it, scapes it, modifies it, and republishes it claiming it for themselves. Now that’s my content someone else regurgitates on to their website. Called spinning, someone runs your content through an algorithm that can involve using a thesaurus to find synonyms for the words in question or an automatic translation program to convert the work into another language, possibly then converting it back to English. The Blog Herald has a great article aboutProtecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers. [...]

]]> By: PlagiarismToday » Massive Trackback/Comment Spam Attack http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-257509 PlagiarismToday » Massive Trackback/Comment Spam Attack Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:22:53 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-257509 [...] Below the images, the sites have several paragraphs of keyword-loaded content about gambling and various sub genres. The gibberish nature of this content indicates that it is either automatically generated or is a another case of a spinning scraping. [...] [...] Below the images, the sites have several paragraphs of keyword-loaded content about gambling and various sub genres. The gibberish nature of this content indicates that it is either automatically generated or is a another case of a spinning scraping. [...]

]]> By: Jonathan Bailey http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-253958 Jonathan Bailey Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:20:52 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-253958 Ron & Lorelle: I've spoken with the person who wrote the plug in many times and the site is fine. However, if you don't feel comfortable you can use the Copyfeed plugin as it has the same functionality along with many more features. Kim: First, in the future, you may want to consider informing their ad networks and their host about what is going on before contacting Google. The reason is that the latter doesn't remove your work from the Web and other search engines. If you cut off the money and then cut off the hosting, you do much more harm to the spammer. As far as the other site you're talking about, the secret there is to create a second, secret, feed that you only give out to sites that need a version of it without the fingerprint. You can use FeedBurner to do that. It can create two feeds from one and then add the digital fingerprint to one of the feeds using Feedflare. Hope that helps! Ron & Lorelle: I’ve spoken with the person who wrote the plug in many times and the site is fine. However, if you don’t feel comfortable you can use the Copyfeed plugin as it has the same functionality along with many more features.

Kim: First, in the future, you may want to consider informing their ad networks and their host about what is going on before contacting Google. The reason is that the latter doesn’t remove your work from the Web and other search engines. If you cut off the money and then cut off the hosting, you do much more harm to the spammer.

As far as the other site you’re talking about, the secret there is to create a second, secret, feed that you only give out to sites that need a version of it without the fingerprint. You can use FeedBurner to do that. It can create two feeds from one and then add the digital fingerprint to one of the feeds using Feedflare.

Hope that helps!

]]> By: Kim http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-252541 Kim Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:57:18 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-252541 Thanks your article told me alot! I am finding they are taking my blog title and what I have written but the only way I know is the fact I have google alerts set up for keywords I blog about often. Yet I visit the spammer and there is no way to contact the person. I am finding I am now getting scrapped often due to the subject matter I blog about. I tell google on them. I also have a site that uses my blog as part of they membership ads, will there a way to set up the digital footprint to ignore them? Thanks your article told me alot!
I am finding they are taking my blog title and what I have written but the only way I know is the fact I have google alerts set up for keywords I blog about often. Yet I visit the spammer and there is no way to contact the person. I am finding I am now getting scrapped often due to the subject matter I blog about. I tell google on them.
I also have a site that uses my blog as part of they membership ads, will there a way to set up the digital footprint to ignore them?

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-250884 Lorelle VanFossen Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:18:55 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-250884 @<a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-250873" rel="nofollow">Ron</a>: The site is fine. I've contacted the author as there is something going on in the web page code, but the site is absolutely fine. @Ron:

The site is fine. I’ve contacted the author as there is something going on in the web page code, but the site is absolutely fine.

]]> By: Ron http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-250873 Ron Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:59:04 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-250873 Since I'm just getting started with my own domain and blogging site, I found your article very informative. One item that troubled me though is the link that you have for the digital fingerprint plugin. It took me to a Google page that warned me that the site in question could harm my computer. Their page took me to StopBadware.org which had further information about the safety of visiting this plugin site. Is the site for the digital fingerprint legitimate and safe? Since I’m just getting started with my own domain and blogging site, I found your article very informative. One item that troubled me though is the link that you have for the digital fingerprint plugin. It took me to a Google page that warned me that the site in question could harm my computer. Their page took me to StopBadware.org which had further information about the safety of visiting this plugin site. Is the site for the digital fingerprint legitimate and safe?

]]> By: Had Your Blog “Scraped” Lately? - - It’s not random, it’s CHAOS! http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-249911 Had Your Blog “Scraped” Lately? - - It’s not random, it’s CHAOS! Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:18:03 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-249911 [...] of Plagiarism Today, an adviser and contributor to the Blog Herald, investigated this and wrote in Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers about this new trend in site [...] [...] of Plagiarism Today, an adviser and contributor to the Blog Herald, investigated this and wrote in Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers about this new trend in site [...]

]]> By: Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers | Web Standards Weblog http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-247085 Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers | Web Standards Weblog Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:59:39 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-247085 [...] read more | digg story [...] [...] read more | digg story [...]

]]> By: Spimmers « Unintelligible http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-247007 Spimmers « Unintelligible Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:05:59 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-247007 [...] evil deed, and asks for everyone’s support to stop these Spimmers. Jonathan Bailey outlines what to do in case you find someone stealing your content. As Jonathan stated, detecting the culprit is the [...] [...] evil deed, and asks for everyone’s support to stop these Spimmers. Jonathan Bailey outlines what to do in case you find someone stealing your content. As Jonathan stated, detecting the culprit is the [...]

]]> By: Spimmers « Gormful http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-247000 Spimmers « Gormful Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:58:01 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-247000 [...] evil deed, and asks for everyone’s support to stop these Spimmers. Jonathan Bailey outlines what to do in case you find someone stealing your content. As Jonathan stated, detecting the culprit is the [...] [...] evil deed, and asks for everyone’s support to stop these Spimmers. Jonathan Bailey outlines what to do in case you find someone stealing your content. As Jonathan stated, detecting the culprit is the [...]

]]> By: Spinning Spammers: The New Breed Of Splogs » Brown Thoughts http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-246910 Spinning Spammers: The New Breed Of Splogs » Brown Thoughts Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:30:54 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-246910 [...] you happen to be one of the victims, Jonathan Bailey has some tips for fighting Spinning Spammers.You could also check out Lorelle’s excellent advice on what you should do when someone steals [...] [...] you happen to be one of the victims, Jonathan Bailey has some tips for fighting Spinning Spammers.You could also check out Lorelle’s excellent advice on what you should do when someone steals [...]

]]> By: A very spammy friday to you too : Everybody Knows http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-246639 A very spammy friday to you too : Everybody Knows Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:20:18 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-246639 [...] Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers discusses the methods used by these spammers, legal issues, what to do and some techniques for detecting spun versions of your posts. [...] [...] Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers discusses the methods used by these spammers, legal issues, what to do and some techniques for detecting spun versions of your posts. [...]

]]> By: Fighting the spinning spammers http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-246095 Fighting the spinning spammers Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:31:33 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-246095 [...] is a quote from a linked article - “Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers” - describing the issue:  […] process of modifying the content before reposting it is [...] [...] is a quote from a linked article – “Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers” – describing the issue:  […] process of modifying the content before reposting it is [...]

]]> By: Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers : The Blog Herald - Bloggercamp http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-246053 Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers : The Blog Herald - Bloggercamp Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:03:35 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/12/protecting-your-content-from-the-spinning-spammers/#comment-246053 [...] the word out! Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers : The Blog Herald Related PostsSimon of freshegg.com writes about an experiment with Google and duplicate content21 [...] [...] the word out! Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers : The Blog Herald Related PostsSimon of freshegg.com writes about an experiment with Google and duplicate content21 [...]

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