Comments on: One Year Anniversary Review: Splogs – The Dark Side of Blogging http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/one-year-anniversary-review-splogs-the-dark-side-of-blogging/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:57:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: WordPress Plugins Battling Evil « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/one-year-anniversary-review-splogs-the-dark-side-of-blogging/#comment-1003708 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 04:24:58 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/one-year-anniversary-review-splogs-the-dark-side-of-blogging/#comment-1003708 […] Splogs – The Dark Side of Blogging […]

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]]> By: Wordpress.com tip - nuking the splogs (Beth) « Nice Deb http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/one-year-anniversary-review-splogs-the-dark-side-of-blogging/#comment-900388 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:02:31 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/one-year-anniversary-review-splogs-the-dark-side-of-blogging/#comment-900388 [...] 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 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/one-year-anniversary-review-splogs-the-dark-side-of-blogging/#comment-898276 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:10:10 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/one-year-anniversary-review-splogs-the-dark-side-of-blogging/#comment-898276 [...] “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 [...]

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]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/one-year-anniversary-review-splogs-the-dark-side-of-blogging/#comment-47722 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:45:34 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/one-year-anniversary-review-splogs-the-dark-side-of-blogging/#comment-47722 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 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/one-year-anniversary-review-splogs-the-dark-side-of-blogging/#comment-47709 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:05:59 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/one-year-anniversary-review-splogs-the-dark-side-of-blogging/#comment-47709 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.

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