Comments on: Ahoy Me Mateys, Blog Pirates Ahead

By: How to Stop Blog Scrapers at Gypsy Bandito

How to Stop Blog Scrapers at Gypsy Bandito — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:28:22 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:23:14 +0000

LOL @ Bushido

By: Bushido

Bushido — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:42:03 +0000

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”

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:31:43 +0000

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.

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

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:00:50 +0000

[...] (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). [...]

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:50:13 +0000

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

By: Fitness guy

Fitness guy — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:18:44 +0000

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

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:41:21 +0000

LOL – I must remember those tricks.

By: SEO Refugee Blog

SEO Refugee Blog — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:30:00 +0000

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.

By: Todd Mintz

Todd Mintz — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:25:31 +0000

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.

By: Owen

Owen — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:33:05 +0000

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/

By: horisly

horisly — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:25:00 +0000

blog private is really a great deal.

By: Brian Gilley

Brian Gilley — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:35:28 +0000

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.

By: Drew Stauffer

Drew Stauffer — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:23:30 +0000

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.