Fortunately, no encounters with “splogs” yet, and I hope I never do.

My content isn´t scrapped any more by this splogger. But my blog was only a drop in the “splog ocean”. Other blogs and web sites are continuously scrapped.

Splogs (Spam+blogs) copy content from a blog’s feed or mix headlines or nonsense content from various feeds with the keywords they are trying to target. These spammers will continue and get more sophisticated over time.

I was furious to see the latest steal from one of my sites, even moreso when I traced back the site to a small business with – get this – a Copyscape notice and on another page, a link to the ethical standards of the business association they belonged to. Fortunately, though, I can relax and reread your suggestions again, and keep my head! Muchly appreciated.

One thing. In regards to the vengeance that you counsel against. Of course, everyone should try to deal with these things calmly, but as far as not drawing attention to it, I think it would benefit so many of us to have a central website registry where members would agree to certain terms, and where a listing of copyright infringers and their domains can be kept. Frankly, since the person who stole the article believes that attribution to the writer is enough, I think she’ll quickly move on to stealing from other people, and rather than exact a pound of flesh, I would rather WARN people about her.

Good luck with it. It sure stinks.

And anytime is the right time to switch to WordPress.

This has just happened to me in the last week. While I’ve had bits and pieces of various posts stolen/cited in a dubious man ner, this is the first time someone has copied my entire wholesale — title, description, posts, categories, even my photograph and copyright message. His/her motive for this has me completely stumped, as it links back to me all over the place.

This happened a week ago. I filed a complaint almost immediately under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. So far, nothing has happened. The cloned blog is still up, with no response from Blogger. (This just adds to the lengthening list of reasons I wish I’d gone with WordPress back in the beginning.)

Keep up the good work. Great blog

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