Comments on: One Year Anniversary Review: Splogs - The Dark Side of Blogging

By: Wordpress.com tip - nuking the splogs (Beth) « Nice Deb

Wordpress.com tip - nuking the splogs (Beth) « Nice Deb — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:02:31 +0000

[...] tips on how to make the most of wordpress.com. She’s got some very thorough information about splogs and content thieves there, too. Posted in WordPress Political Blogs. Tags: splogs, wordpress, [...]

By: sleaze, twaddle, and gobbledygook « Worte,Zeichen,Bilder

sleaze, twaddle, and gobbledygook « Worte,Zeichen,Bilder — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:10:10 +0000

[...] “A splog is a “spam blog”, a blog that copies content from other blogs without permission (though there might be a link back), using that content as if it was their own. It’s a little more complex than that, as some mix and match content from many blogs, or mix and match content from different posts into one post.”//Lorelle [...]

By: Stop Content Theft Buttons and Badges « Lorelle on WordPress

Stop Content Theft Buttons and Badges « Lorelle on WordPress — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:16:35 +0000

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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:45:34 +0000

I don’t investigate potential splogs, as a rule, but I did take a look at the site. What they are doing is within the bounds of “fair use”. They are using your feed content as their own, but they aren’t using the entire content, just a short excerpt with a link to your site. Because it is less than 200-500 words, it falls within “acceptable” limits for use, unless your copyright covers absolutely NO use on websites without permission, including feeds. If it does, they are in violation of your copyright. If it doesn’t, and you allow fair use without permission, then they are fine.

Fair use of copyright protected material is a fine line. You have to decide for yourself in this case if you want to contact them and ask them to remove the reference to your site. Do a Domain Name search to track them down if you can’t find a way of locating a contact through their site. Send them an email and follow the instructions in What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content. Good luck.

By: colleen

colleen — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:05:59 +0000

I wonder if you’d be willing to investigate if this is a splog. http://focusednews.com/health_news/?p=4568 It recently picked up a post of mine and when I mentioned it on my blog later, it then picked up the mention. It looks legite but I can’t find any author and I’m suspicious. This is the first I’ve heard of splogs but I know the spammers are getting more and more crafty.

By: Idiot Alert: Don’t Share Your GMail RSS Feeds « Lorelle on WordPress

Idiot Alert: Don’t Share Your GMail RSS Feeds « Lorelle on WordPress — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:49:05 +0000

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By: The Bitacle Battle of Blogs « Lorelle on WordPress

The Bitacle Battle of Blogs « Lorelle on WordPress — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:33:22 +0000

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By: How To Spot a Splog « Lorelle on WordPress

How To Spot a Splog « Lorelle on WordPress — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:40:03 +0000

[...] After publishing “One Year Anniversary Review: Splogs - The Dark Side of Blogging”, I had several people ask me how to know if a blog is a splog or spam blog. Here are some simple clues to look for. [...]

By: One Year Anniversary Review: Blogging and Blogging Tips « Lorelle on WordPress

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:04:17 +0000

[...] Spam blogs and comment spammers went into overtime in the past year to give a bad name to blogs from a variety of angles. It didn’t help when we learned about how traffic trolls create controversy to increase blog traffic to their blogs. The evil that some bloggers do hurts all bloggers. [...]

By: One Year Anniversary Review: What are Feeds? « Lorelle on WordPress

One Year Anniversary Review: What are Feeds? « Lorelle on WordPress — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 04:23:51 +0000

[...] On the downside of feeds, they are also being used to scrape content or steal content from blogs and use it as their own, since they either have no content, or no interest in content as they just need words to attract search engines and then saturate the content with their spam words and links to sex toys, cheap drugs, useless drugs, cell phone ring tones, or some other snake oil salesman show. These sites are often known as “splogs” or spam blogs. I addressed this issue in “The Growing Trends in Content Theft”: There is a growing and real concern that site and blog feeds are being used to totally replace any original content. Some crafty website owners are using multiple feeds to pull information from other sites into their own, making it look like the site has an interesting and original collection of content, when it is actually stolen without permission from other sites. [...]