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How to Stop Content Theft: The Best Tips « Lorelle on WordPress — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 04:11:03 +0000

[…] and copyright violators, and while Blogger’s Blogspot is improving, it has long been the haven for thousands of sploggers and scrapers. With WordPress growing in popularity, as a hosted and self-hosted blogging system, many assume […]

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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:17:34 +0000

"Splogged"? I believe you mean your content's copyright has been violated. A splog is a type of blog known as a "spam blog" which may or may not use unoriginal content. A scraper is a type of blog that takes content from other people's site via feeds and uses it, sometimes within Fair Use and often not. Some splogs are also scraper blogs. However, the issue at hand is copyright infringement, which I cover in What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content. Google is not involved. Anyone can have Google Adsense ads or Google ads if their terms of service permits it. As someone with a URL that reports to know something about professional writing, it's also important that you must learn all about copyright infringement and how the web works in this modern day Internet world. I recommend you read that article for a brushing up on how it works, and how to inform the copyright violator appropriately and take action to protect yourself and your content.

By: Sue Fagalde Lick

Sue Fagalde Lick — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:30:20 +0000

I’ve been splogged and I’m not amused. There is no contact or profile information on this alleged blog, but there are several Google ads, which makes me wonder if Google is involved. If somebody wants to use my copy with proper attribution, great. Otherwise, paws off.

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Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:16:55 +0000

[...] There have been a lot of splog problems with Blogger and Blogspot and other free or low-cost blogging services, and I was very proud of the fact that WordPress.com stood up immediately and publicly to let members know that if they spot a splog, use the Feedback link in the Administration Panels (or via the WordPress.com admin tool bar while browsing WordPress.com blogs) to let them know and they will jump on the splog and squish it. [...]