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October 25th, 2007 by Terry

This is a real problem, but one that we here at Blogging Web 2.0 as well as every other blogger can actually use to our advantage.

I noticed some similar spammy, adsense loaded sites doing this same thing to my own blog, which made me angry to think these slimy gits were leeching off me and making money from my content which they hadn’t paid for. So I thought it best to fight fire with fire.

Here’s how to beat these swines at their own game.

In every post that we make, we simply enter an anchor link to the site at the beginning of the post, somewhere in the centre, like this: Blogging Web 2.0 and near the end. That way, when they publish our article, even if they cut off the author credits at the bottom of the article we still get some free back-links from the content thieves.

As content is indexed by the search engines according to the date and time they were created, the originator (Blogging Web 2.0), or owner gets accredited with the original content and the thieving gits get hammered for having duplicate content on their site.

Payback in every sense!

Terry Didcott
Author and Creator of Blogging Web 2.0

PS: There is an even dirtier trick to getting these sites hammered where it hurts the most - in the pocket. But I’m not going to tell right now.

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12 Responses to “Content Stealing”

  1. Grizzly (31 comments.) Says:
    October 25th, 2007 at 6:40 am

    Ha.. I just finished saying the same thing in the comments on Monika’s post. We think alike terry.

    Grizzly

  2. Terry (82 comments.) Says:
    October 25th, 2007 at 4:03 pm

    I knew you would because I got most of these great ideas from your own teachings!!

    Notice my posts have started to include a spattering of links - you are right, it does bring links back to the originating site.

    I’ve been doing it with my own blogs and noticing the inbound links in my wordpress dashboard whenever I log in. I get the url and IP address of these snakes in the grass from their comments that sit in my moderation queue before I delete them, so I know who they are too!!

    I like the idea of turning the tables on them by their unwittingly giving me the backlinks while they get hammered for posting duplicate content.

    There is justice somewhere in this world!

    Terry :-)

  3. Grizzly (31 comments.) Says:
    October 25th, 2007 at 7:16 pm

    And you thought I was just another pretty face…

    Grizzly

  4. Monika (79 comments.) Says:
    October 25th, 2007 at 7:43 pm

    Hehe…ingenious the two of you. I will as from now incorporate this on my own blogs too.

    I love it. You guys rock!

    Monika :-)

  5. Grizzly (31 comments.) Says:
    October 25th, 2007 at 8:09 pm

    Just thought I would mention that if you find some sites that have removed your backlink - to overcome this try hiding it in your posts by hypertexting a period or some other punctuation mark. These don’t stand out but still link back to you.

    To find sites that steal your content the easy way just do a Google search using a specific unique line of text in your post but use the exact phrase search with quotes ” on both ends of the text “. If the thief’s site is indexed you will find it.

    For those of you who are familiar with the tor network and ip cloaking software then just visit the sites in disguise and click the adsense ads about a hundred times in a row. This will get them banned instantly from adsense. DO NOT DO THIS if you don’t know what you are doing or you could get banned just as easily. And no I will not explain this further - you blackhatters know what I mean and you could do us all a favor and make yourselves useful for a change and have a little fun while you are at it.

    I probably shouldn’t have added the last bit but I suspect you get some experienced readers here who just might be able to help you two out.

    Cheers,

    Grizzly

  6. Monika (79 comments.) Says:
    October 26th, 2007 at 3:18 am

    Hi Grizzly,

    I like the punctuation mark link idea as it is less obvious. Now a thought to this IP hiding stuff.

    What happens to surfing the web with a hidden IP and then clicking your own google ads with a different one every day? Just a question, but with all those free “hide your IP software” out there the question has crossed my mind and you might know the answer. ;-)

    Monika

  7. Grizzly (31 comments.) Says:
    October 26th, 2007 at 6:00 am

    Hey Monika,

    I’m glad you asked and I should have mentioned this before - don’t try clicking your own ads with cloaking software as Google can spot it a mile away just as you can spot it on your own stats tracking page.

    People who use proxies of any type still leave a server address that is easily identified as a tor server or a proxy server. While your IP is hidden (there are ways to discover it though) for the most part you still let the site you visit know that you are using a proxy. Google simply ignores any clicks coming from a proxy and if there are too many clicks too frequently then they will assume that you or agents working for you are attempting to defraud the system and you will be banned. Google doesn’t need an IP to spot something funny going on.

    Blackhatters use this system to spam forums (among other things) by signing in as multiple entities coming from multiple IP’s and it works since most administrators don’t spot the proxy servers or do and don’t put two and two together. Lot’s of legitimate people use proxies so it takes a bit of work to figure out who is who. If you notice a high amount of sign-ups from proxies in a short period of time then you are dealing with a spammer (a stupid one). A proxy sign-up every once in a while is likely a legitimate member or a smart spammer.

    This type of software is sold without any mention of what is is used for but the idea is to get people thinking that they can click on their own adsense ads. If anybody is contemplating this then DON’T. Period. You will regret it. There really is no legitimate use for cloaking software that I can think of (ok maybe one - nailing jerks who steal my content). There are of course hundreds of illegitimate uses for it which I will not go into.

    As usual I have managed to write an epic when a simple “Don’t Do It” would have sufficed.

    Cheers,

    Grizzly

    (oh… and don’t ask how I know this. I am a fan of the don’t ask don’t tell policy! ha)

  8. Terry (82 comments.) Says:
    October 26th, 2007 at 10:27 am

    Humph, I go out and do a hard day’s work and when I come back I’ve missed all the fun!! ;-)

    I just read all the comments between you and Grizzly about the content thieves - His note about using a period as a hyperlink is a good one - I did that for the first time in my post in one of my blogs yesterday after I noticed one of the thieves had deleted my links. We are definitely all drinking in the same pub (or some strange saying like that)!!!

    As an adsense bannee I know how it feels to be on the receiving end of their swift and harsh justice. As I’ve re-applied to adsense I’m not going to take any chances with messing with that system (at least until I know one way or another) even though I can do a lot of damage to these spammers as I mentioned in another comment.

    So I’ll stick with the white hat stuff and leech links back from them for daring to steal my stuff.

    Incidentally, this’ll make you smile.

    The Honest Way blog is being plagarised by a site called xilin.us - when I checked them out they are a PR5 site! That means PR5 one-way backlinks for me and they probably don’t realize!

    That is soooo COOL :-)

    Terry

  9. Grizzly (31 comments.) Says:
    October 26th, 2007 at 11:21 am

    Oh man… you get all the luck. My thieves are always PR0 beginners. Damn!

    I hope I made it clear to everybody to stay away from the adsense bombing as it isn’t worth the risk.

    Sorry to hear you are a bannee although I was wondering why you weren’t using it. Good luck with your appeal Terry.

    Grizzly

  10. Monika (79 comments.) Says:
    October 26th, 2007 at 7:42 pm

    Grizzly,
    Thanks for clarifying things about the proxies. I had an inkling that this wasn’t possible otherwise many would do it and make a fortune. :-)

    And don’t worry, I won’t ask you how you knew. After all, I have to keep reading your blog won’t I and so do all the other silent viewers of this discussion.

    Terry,
    It’s funny you mentioned it. I also get plagiarized by the same site as it shows incoming links in my dashboard. But when I saw the high PR like you I wasn’t worried at all.

    After hearing all your mentioning about black hat stuff I have to say that I’m wondrous about what is really possible in terms of tweaking things for one’s advantages (not in relation to Adsense) but on the general front and I also wonder how many of the big boys are actually using black hat to earn a lot of money very fast.

    I’ve heard that John Chow was a good candidate for this one, but not entirely sure.
    From where I’m standing it certainly helps to know the dark side as well as the good.

    Monika

  11. Jan Bay (1 comments.) Says:
    November 8th, 2007 at 11:37 am

    I usually put some links in my baby blog posts to pages on my website. However, I have had more problems with articles that I have written for ezinearticles being used without links than my blog posts yet ezinearticles won’t allow links in the article body.

    Is that the reason I see that you use goarticles?

  12. Grizzly (31 comments.) Says:
    November 8th, 2007 at 5:47 pm

    Hi Jan,

    If you were referring to me…

    The ability to use links on GoArticles gives me a huge advantage for the things I like to do and is a primary reason that I like using it. The fact that it also gives you good PR backlinks from the top author and author page is another.

    Ezinearticles is a quality site though and ranks well in the serp’s - just not as amendable to my needs though so I don’t use it much.

    If you weren’t referring to me, um ignore the last bit! Ha.

    Cheers,

    Grizzly

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