Have you been troubled by Automatic Content Scraping Blogs?
This has been a Big headache for Sincere webmasters and writers in the internet for last few years. Automatic content scapers that use your Website content , Feeds to copy and republish your articles on their Spam Blog ie SPlogs.
Frequently you can come across sites marketing such Splog Auto-blogs that offers you such scraping tools for as low as $60." And Is that what all your Hardwork is Worth?"
Common Nature of Splogs-
1. Usually a wordpress blog
2. Unmanaged template ( theme) with no contact information and About pages.
3. Mixture site that scrapes from >3 sites of different topics like health, entertainment, diet etc
4. Stuffing Adsense ads improperly over others content. That's the real purpose of such Splogs.
5. Often images pulled directly form the original website.
6. Links may reveal the original website.
7. Content are not managed.
8. Domain owners identity is often hidden or if found will be owing 10+ other domains.
How Spam Blogs can affect your Website?
1.Most painful scene is when a Spamblog ranks above you in searches for the same content that took you days of research and hours of editing to complete and publish.They will compete with you for the same Keywords without much hardwork.
2.Even if it doesn't rank well, it will affect your search ranking negatively as you'll have duplicate website of your site in the internet.
3.Hotlinking image from your site will suck up your Bandwidth.
4.Sometimes you'll need to Change your feed Publishing from Complete feed to Summary, that will affect your subscribers. This may be the last option when you need to protect your content from Feed scrapers.
5. You'll have to go through a Headache of filing a DMCA complain and other uninvited workloads.
What can you Do against Such Blogs? Read How to Report a Content theft
The Content Scrapers are on the loose in the Internet, like the Virus, like the Trojan and we're sorry to say it's very difficult to Deal with them. Since they have nothing to lose, we are at loss at most times.
If any site is republishing from your Feed the best thing you can do to Save Your Blog is to Change the Feed Publishing to FEED SUMMARY.
This has been a Big headache for Sincere webmasters and writers in the internet for last few years. Automatic content scapers that use your Website content , Feeds to copy and republish your articles on their Spam Blog ie SPlogs.Frequently you can come across sites marketing such Splog Auto-blogs that offers you such scraping tools for as low as $60." And Is that what all your Hardwork is Worth?"
Common Nature of Splogs-
1. Usually a wordpress blog
2. Unmanaged template ( theme) with no contact information and About pages.
3. Mixture site that scrapes from >3 sites of different topics like health, entertainment, diet etc
4. Stuffing Adsense ads improperly over others content. That's the real purpose of such Splogs.
5. Often images pulled directly form the original website.
6. Links may reveal the original website.
7. Content are not managed.
8. Domain owners identity is often hidden or if found will be owing 10+ other domains.
How Spam Blogs can affect your Website?
1.Most painful scene is when a Spamblog ranks above you in searches for the same content that took you days of research and hours of editing to complete and publish.They will compete with you for the same Keywords without much hardwork.
2.Even if it doesn't rank well, it will affect your search ranking negatively as you'll have duplicate website of your site in the internet.
3.Hotlinking image from your site will suck up your Bandwidth.
4.Sometimes you'll need to Change your feed Publishing from Complete feed to Summary, that will affect your subscribers. This may be the last option when you need to protect your content from Feed scrapers.
5. You'll have to go through a Headache of filing a DMCA complain and other uninvited workloads.
What can you Do against Such Blogs? Read How to Report a Content theft
The Content Scrapers are on the loose in the Internet, like the Virus, like the Trojan and we're sorry to say it's very difficult to Deal with them. Since they have nothing to lose, we are at loss at most times.
If any site is republishing from your Feed the best thing you can do to Save Your Blog is to Change the Feed Publishing to FEED SUMMARY.
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