Ok I’ve had a gut full about my sites being plagiarized and so have others. This blog here has recently been very much plagiarized in terms of content being stolen. I realize that this is happening via RSS feeds most likely and therefore we need to find a way fast to get back into control of our own content.

Lets just take the following scenario as an example: what would happen if these sites overtook us in the search engines, which by the way is very much real as you can read on Keith De Souza’s whole take on the issue. Keith is actually the person who got me into action by blogging about it. I’m not sure to be honest, whether it does help or not but in the end we (honest and hard working) bloggers have to stand up for our rights. Below are the sites that steal Terry’s and my content right from this blog and I will simply delete their spam track backs in order to avoid giving them a valid link.

See, what’s happening here is that they most likely don’t follow. But they target “do follow sites” and by sending a track back they will get an indexed link back to them.

Not only do they steal, but their search engine ranking will go up because of the one way links they unjustly gain. They monetize their sites with Google Adwords and eventually they will rake in a fortune while we bust our butts to get ahead.

Image: Caleb

This simply sucks and I personally had a gut full. This might even lead to having “do follow’s” removed by most bloggers as at least their links (or track back) will not be indexed by the search engines anymore.

The sad thing is that this can all be done automatically with software. After setting up those spammy blogs the owner only needs to find good content and let the robots o the rest by themselves. Insert some Google ads or similar and off you are into the sunshine.

Below Are some Content Stealer Blogs

http://affiliate-marketing.marketing-experts.info/?p=7115

http://marketing-research.marketing-experts.info/?p=7531

http://business-marketing.marketing-experts.info/?p=11008

I have purposely removed the hyperlink to their sites as I really don’t want to give them any more traffic! Further to this, I have blacklisted their domains as well as their IP addresses. I have also obtained their contact details via GoDaddy and if they keep stealing our content here, I will get them shut down.

At least I will try as I have proof enough!

This stealing has got to stop and if we small blogs can monitor our sites to help this, then why not. After all, an avalanche starts with the smallest crack in the snow. (Or voice!)

So for all you bloggers who care about your unique content, I ask you to join the movement that was started by Keith. After all, ignorance will only make it worse.

Monika Mundell

Creator and Author of Blogging Web 2.0

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