Incoming Links – strange scam site?
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Hi,
I recently published a post and found that I had an incoming link from something entitled “Naughty Cuties of Masala Movies « Reshma Shakeela Smitha” (http://paxil40mg.blogspot.com/2007/12/naughty-cuties-of-masala-movies-reshma.html). I clicked on it and found myself at the “blog” – Paxil Online.
It’s basically copied most of the paragraphs from my post, put it up in an entry (though providing a link to my original full post) and at the bottom of that entry is another paragraph full of tag words relating to what I’m guessing is something to do with porn and Indian movies? When I click on the “full original post link” that follows this paragraph of tag words, I get to http://reshmashakeelasmitha.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/naughty-cuties-of-masala-movies/
My question is therefore…. is there anything that can be done to get my writing off this bizarre scam page?
Thanks,
Susan -
Yes. If you do a search for “Blog scrapers” or “splogs” you’ll find that you can report them to Google Adsense, which will delete their account, or report them to their webhost, or to Blogger, which has rules against this kind of thing. Usually just emailing the blog owner doesn’t get you anywhere, but if you can find contact info, you can try it first.
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Thanks a lot. I’ve already reported it as a question in Blogger’s help section, but I’ll get onto some of your other suggestions as well.
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Oh… but what can I do about reporting it to WordPress? The blogs are hosted by both Blogger and WordPress after all.
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If a WP.com site has stolen your content, you can report them as spam. When you’re signed in, just go to that blog and click on the About This Blog thing on the blue admin bar, near the right-hand side. Then report it as having stolen your content.
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just click the ‘report as spam’ link via ‘blog info’ on the blue admin bar (top right side) for the wp.com blog.
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