Comments on: Who is Stealing your Mojo? RSS Feed Scraping, Splogs and How to Fight them

By: Static Brain

Static Brain — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:28:28 +0000

The simplest way to take down a splog like the first one you mentioned is to report them to google adsense. They are using google adsense ads. the report url for google adsense is here. This will help clean the web up, and give you a sense of satisfaction, by taking the splogger's revenue away.

By: Disabling Feedburner Feed » HeadsetOptions

Disabling Feedburner Feed » HeadsetOptions — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:53:32 +0000

[...] to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!We wrote about the issues being experienced with scrapping our RSS feed, numerous spammy sites have been republishing our work and we are clearly feeling the pinch. We [...]

By: ankara nakliyat

ankara nakliyat — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:24:59 +0000

Was the host an US company? Most sites I am having issues with are hosted elsewhere.

By: hso

hso — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:16:07 +0000

@ David

Was the host an US company? Most sites I am having issues with are hosted elsewhere.

By: David

David — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:00:27 +0000

The solution that has worked for me thus far has been to contact the hosting company of the culprit.

By: hso

hso — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:18:36 +0000

@ Robin

As our friend Marcus (or it Rick Astley himself ) pointed out, server side IP ban is a better idea, the plugin from what I could tell (I do not use it) is a http ban, similar to our Javascript idea.

@ Marcus,
Thanks for your input, I would like to see if you or someone else actually finds a real solution to this issue. If all we are doing is slowing them down, then so be it, collectively we can might be able to make an impact.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:58:39 +0000

These methods are simplistic and almost useless at best.

The javascript redirect is useless, the method the splogger uses to scrape your site DOESN’T use a browser so the javascript wont run!

The .htaccess or other server side redirects are better but any one with half a brain will be able to bypass them.

Conclusion, if some one wants to steal your content, you can only slow them down, you CAN’T stop them.

The only upside is, if you ban their IP they probably wont notice (because your one of many and they don’t actually care about your specific content, its filler after all based on a subject they want to spam) so it will probably end with that.

But as they say, All you base are belong to us! Make your time!

-marcus

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:22:03 +0000

Hi, i know some splogs are stealing my contents even though i don’t have that much traffic. However, does the effect in above techniques will be the same if i simply ban the splog’s IP using plugin like wp-ban? Any help and advice will be highly appreciated.