RSS stealer?
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I hope I’m posting this is in the right forum.
I noticed some new links in the ‘Incoming links’ section of my stats today and had a look at the site they came from. It looks like my content, along with a bunch of other people’s content, is being reproduced on this site. Here’s one of the links that showed up in my log, with my content reproduced on someone else’s page:
http://ipopedia.com/ipoblog/2007/07/06/messages-5/The main page of the site is here:
http://ipopedia.com/ipoblog/Looks pretty dodgy to me. Anyone know what’s going on here? Are they just stealing a bunch of RSS feeds to attract google adwords or something?
Is there anything I can do to get my content removed from this site? It looks like a wordpress blog.
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That’s a blog scraper, and you nailed it. They are stealing content and trying to bleed some money out of adsense. It happens a LOT.
One thing you should know is that blog scrapers never outrank the blogs they scrape from, so don’t worry it’s stealing readers.
That’s a blog that uses WP software, but it’s not hosted at WP.com, so it’s not a wordpress issue per se, any more than the fact that the robbers got away in a Chevy is a Chevy issue. The best way to deal with these people is to email them directly or leave a comment asserting your copyright and if they don’t take it down (they probably won’t) contact their web host. The web host could lose their business entirely and do time if they don’t act on that, so usually they do.
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hi raincoaster. thanks for your thoughts, i really appreciate it. and apologies for the duplicate post — that was unintentional.
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