How to stop Destinary.com stealing my posts
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http://www.destinary.com has been pinging back on my last 3 posts. I went to check the site, and it’s powered by WordPress, but not on wordpress.com.
They are reposting my content, and that of other bloggers, simply to run adverts. I wanted to comment on the post to ask them to stop, but it asked me to log-in, and when I tried, it said it would log me into Destinary.com. I did not log-in because I did not want to put my password and content at further risk.
There is absolutely no way that I can find to contact the user to stop this from happening.
Any ideas? Any way to block particular sites from re-posting your content?
Thanks!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Content Theft & Abuse – Logos
http://en.support.wordpress.com/content-theft-what-to-do/
http://en.wordpress.com/abuse/
http://automattic.com/dmca-notice/
If you’re feeling really mean, this should also help http://manolofood.com/whine-journalism-and-how-to-bring-the-splashback/ (thanks @Raincoaster)
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Thanks a lot auxclass!! I went with the Manolofood choice, since the blog wasn’t on wordpress.com. Funny thing though, the second I marked their ping-backs as SPAM, both my posts on destinary.com magically disappeared.
Still filled out the form though…because I recognized lots of other wordpress.com travel bloggers work on there. :(
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thanks, auxclass. If you REALLY want me to love you, can you use the new link, http://drinkscoaster.com/2013/01/02/whine-journalism-and-how-to-bring-the-splashback? I’m trying to get the pagerank of the new blog up and kill off the dead one. Hard, when I no longer have access to delete the posts.
penguina, go after their ads if they have them. Report them to the ad networks. Not only does that kill the impetus for that particular blog, it stops them from doing it for different fields on different blogs. It kills them completely.
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Hey raincoaster, thanks for the great post and tips. I’m kinda “dumb” when it comes to dealing with these things, so I’m not sure how to find and report to the ad networks. Any quick tips?
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The link is updated
you be welcome for the credit – I try and give credit where credit is due
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The Destinary is an auto-blog that tracks and promotes travel related content. You have your site’s settings set as “public domain” content If the Destinary is promoting your content.
If you do not want your site’s content promoted by services like the Destinary, it is your responsibility to configure your privacy settings correctly. For example – turn off your feed.
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Hi socialistagenda, thanks and I’ll look into doing that, but I respectfully disagree. They are not promoting my content for the sake of promoting my content, or any other travel bloggers on there – they are scraping content to increase views on their own site for the sake of advertising revenue, without doing an ounce on their own work.
The fact that I cannot even post a comment without logging in (to THEIR site by the way, not my own – and possibly putting my account at risk), or find any contact info anywhere on their site is a bit suspicious, don’t you think? I should be able to ask them to stop, no?
And what about the Copyright 2014 Destinary they have at the bottom of their site. Really? How can they copyright other blogger’s content?
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Oh, by the way… Links are reciprocal. When you deleted the Destinary pingback, you pinged the Destinary to remove your comments at the same time. There was nothing “magical” about it. Just like the public access to your content, it was all under your control; it was your own actions that deleted your content.
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I wish that were completely true, but unfortunately, it’s not. I marked both ping backs as SPAM…since 2 of my articles are on there, and only 1 magically disappeared. The other one is still there. Any ideas how I can get it off there…with my own actions? I’d love to know.
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Copyright footers are automatically included in many of the wordpress templates. There is nothing there to indicate that the Destinary tries to enforce copyrights.
In addition, ad dollars is not as much as you seem to believe. Not that many people actually click on ads. A study at Hulu recently found out Hulu makes an average of $0.13 per movie watched. The money is made in the volume of visitors.
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Sigh. I didn’t ask for a lesson. I asked for some help.
First you said this: “When you deleted the Destinary pingback, you pinged the Destinary to remove your comments at the same time. There was nothing “magical” about it. Just like the public access to your content, it was all under your control; it was your own actions that deleted your content.”
When I told you this wasn’t true and asked for guidance, you’ve just given more of your “info,” which has already been wrong. I will not be responding to you again.
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As far as promoting content goes – Each time someone clicks on your post on the Destinary, a view is automatically credited to your site too. But, I do not know if that remains true after you severed the link.
The Destinary consolidates travel content into one place. So, you even saw content from bloggers that you would not have seen otherwise had you not visited your post on that site. That site does a lot more cross promoting among bloggers than the few pennies it might get to offset the cost of maintaining an independent platform.
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You have not even provided a link to what you are talking about. Send me a link to your comment so I know what you are talking about.
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@socialistagenda – your “help” is junk – the RSS feed can not be turned off on a WordPress.COM blog – also having an RSS feed does not grant any other site license to copy entire sites or violate any sites copyright and terms or use
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