First It Was Blue Host, Now Content Thieves!
Go get your own stuff, people! I was recently going through my Google Analytics and noticed a site that has jumped in referring visits and had never heard of it so I go to visit the site and check it out. Come to find out my blog has been copied and pasted as some sort of “escort news” on their site. Though they are giving a link to my site after every post, it’s being used like it’s their own content and reporting on the escort news around Vegas. Posts along with my photos are copied and pasted to their page. This gets my head hot like no other (but not as bad as my fiasco with my old hosing company) when I see people do this. I’ve written a couple of emails and such to get them to take down the content so we shall see how it goes. If no response in a few days then I have to go to the next level. Sorry, had to vent. I will write about more interesting things next….
Tags: websites
LOSERS! Hey, at least you know your content is worth stealing, right? Cold comfort. Hope you get everything straightened out ASAP. Good luck!
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:22 pmThat happens all the time for me with my photo work. They just plain steal it. I send out a strongly worded C and D and most of the time that works. For the smaller sites stealing, I write them and ask them nicely to either credit me ( pretty easy to do) or just take it down entirely. It a pain in the ass but par for the course. I check my stats like i have OCD and I’m very diligent about googling myself and looking for content thieves.
I use this tool a lot: http://www.copyscape.com/
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:11 amyou might find it helpful.