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14 comments on “Ahoy Me Mateys, Blog Pirates Ahead”

1. 

   Drew Stauffer Says:

   August 1st, 2007 at 10:23 am

   I think you gotta keep on sailing. There’s not much you can do about it.

   I had my blog hacked two days ago and I went through the same feelings…pissed and slightly honored.

2. 

   Brian Gilley Says:

   August 1st, 2007 at 10:35 am

   Arrrrhhh! You get on board and give them a good thrashing. — of course, I’ve been watching too much UFC lately, so I’m a bit biased between what method to use.

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   horisly Says:

   August 1st, 2007 at 11:25 am

   blog private is really a great deal.

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   Owen Says:

   August 1st, 2007 at 12:33 pm

   There are a number of plugins to protect against content scraping. There’s a good review of a couple (well 5 actually) here:

   http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2006/10/09/five-essential-wordpress-con tent-protection-plugins/

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   Todd Mintz Says:

   August 1st, 2007 at 1:25 pm

   I love it when folks scrape my affiliate links and I start to sell products that I haven’t been selling. This happens once in a while.

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   SEO Refugee Blog Says:

   August 1st, 2007 at 1:30 pm

   I think I may have mentioned this before but we once had someone copy all of our code rather than just the content so we ended up seeing the site on Google Analytics and MyBlogLog etc. It was kinda fun to keep an eye on and find out where their traffic came from and went.

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   Andy Beal Says:

   August 1st, 2007 at 1:41 pm

   LOL – I must remember those tricks.

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   Fitness guy Says:

   August 1st, 2007 at 4:18 pm

   There’s nothing you can do, especially now the the scrapers are getting much better at “rewriting” you blogs.

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   Justin Says:

   August 1st, 2007 at 4:50 pm

   Its happened to me a few times before, but nothing good or bad ever came from it.

10. Search Engine Optimization Journal » Blog Pirates, Content Thieves, And Other Ne’er-do-wells: They Don’t Make Me Cry Says:

    August 1st, 2007 at 7:00 pm

    [...] (Pilgrim) I personally gave up trying to fight the blog pirates. Even if you’re successful in getting one to stop, another pops-up within days (probably by the same guys). [...]

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    Andy Beard Says:

    August 2nd, 2007 at 6:31 am

    Andy, you missed something, they actually gave the scrapers good links.

    I don’t fight scrapers, it is not worth the effort, and there is a good chance half the backlinks reported on Technorati that top blogs receive are from scrapers.

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    Bushido Says:

    August 2nd, 2007 at 9:42 am

    People will do all sorts of stuff to get links. Oh, when you have time, why don’t you read my last post on my blog: “Ahoy me mateys, blog pirates ahead”

13. 

    Andy Beal Says:

    August 2nd, 2007 at 10:23 am

    LOL @ Bushido

14. How to Stop Blog Scrapers at Gypsy Bandito Says:

    August 3rd, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    [...] Beal over at Marketing Pilgrim has spotted blog pirates and started taking a look at how to fight them. Well, here’s my take on [...]

 

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