Comments on: Ippon Blog Plagiarism With Moves Like A Judo Blackbelt

By: By Design: Fonts, Lightboxes, Graphs, Cliches and Judo | Logo Design Works

By Design: Fonts, Lightboxes, Graphs, Cliches and Judo | Logo Design Works — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:45:14 +0000

[...] Beard takes on the problem of plagiarism with a type of blog judo, suggesting practical ways to stop people from stealing your site content. [...]

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:47:30 +0000

I much prefer GPL, that allows people to modify parts, add commentary or maybe change a heading with a lot more freedom

I should point out that your feeds do not contain any license information, and the lack of contact information could make you liable to fines up to $500,000 NZD, which is approximately $350,000 USD.
Your content is commercial, and I am sure it gets transmitted by means other than RSS, such as email subscribers

http://www.netconcepts.com/nz-anti-spam-act/

I have been writing about Feedburner being somewhat of a legal liability for some time, though users will subscribe to stuff using their own methods, and could quite easily still hit a spam button.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:53:14 +0000

One potential thought then, why not use a Creative Commons License on your content and give the implicit OK for anyone who wants to use your material in such a way. I do not find such use terribly offensive myself, so long as I am linked and attributed, I have mentioned that on my site and have an appropriate CC license.

Any thoughts on that?

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:17:25 +0000

I am fairly confident that most of my articles wouldn’t make much sense without the links provided although I am sure that isn’t universally the case.

A significant proportion of my content is unique ideas and research, and what stands out most is when real blogs I read pick up on those ideas without any kind of link, discussing subjects as if the subject is some kind of universal truth, but with no real experience in the subject matter.

As a rule I generally ignore that as well. I have grown a thick skin, and I know from article marketing that this happens all the time.

Even with sploggers 80:20 applies – in many cases they are more likely to link to you for a pingback and a chance of a link, but have the link with nofollow. As far as Google is concerned that is the same as if they hadn’t linked to you at all.

If you are a large site, and can afford to outsource chasing people down, you might take a different approach, but for most it is better to just use it as an additional weapon.

By: Recording Studio

Recording Studio — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:21:34 +0000

Andy, the entire premise of your post is to benefit from the links within the content that is copied by others. But I have faced situations wherein someone has happily copied my content and taken the trouble to remove all the links from within it. What do you do of such people then?

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:15:43 +0000

Alex, how many junk article directories do you actually own which you promote with exactly the same comment on multiple blogs?

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:55:50 +0000

Great post. I really enjoy your writing. By the way, I run a big Article Directory and if you have some articles for distribution, you are very welcome to post them in the appropriate category.
Regards,
Alex

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:59:31 +0000

Johnathan I am glad you appreciated the alternative view on the subject. I honestly think people get a little riled up about it thinking these sites are stealing all their traffic.

They might be stealing some traffic, but at the same time they also send some you wouldn’t otherwise receive.

If I took 15 minutes to deal with every blog that is syndicating my content without explicit permission, it would probably take me more than a week, and I would loose literally 1000s of backlinks (though poor quality)

There are actually people making large amounts of money exploiting splogs and MFA scrapers.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:21:05 +0000

Excellent article on the topic, but one thing I wanted to point out though is that it doesn’t take long to deal with plagiarism once you know how to handle it. If you take the time to have your stock letters ready, it never takes more than fifteen minutes on your end to handle a case.

Something to consider when dealing with this complicated issue. Sometimes, much of the time even, it is worthwhile to after content theft.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:19:23 +0000

Sploggers are getting your content from your feed, or from Technorati, so that doesn’t really help.

Google Reader can be used to refeed to splogs and who in their right mind is going to block the most popular feed reader?