I bought your book, btw. Have read it several times and I’m always on this site.

Let’s look at an entry of your other blog (http://www.livingroom.org.au/photolog/).
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Trusted Reviews has a review of the Olympus µ [mju] Digital 800 (also known as the Olympus Stylus 800) and writes – ‘It may be questionable whether anyone really needs an 8MP compact, but there’s no denying that the Olympus mju 800 is an extremely good camera. Build quality, ease of use and performance are as good as ever. The Bright Capture technology makes low-light photography much easier, and the image quality in SHQ mode is superb. If you simply must have A3-size holiday snaps then it’s ideal.’
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And you call that a blog. The whole site is nothing but copy-and-paste contents from other review sites so that you can earn some Adsense dollars, and you call yourself a blogging guru teaching your followers to blog for profits.

Shame on you.

Have a look, people, and judge for yourself.
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I’m with you David.
Some people just know blaming other people, but they also do the same thing. Make blog with copy othet blog reviews, made thousands from adsense and at the same time make setup a blog like this Problogger and teach people “Original content is a king”. What a loser.

Yes that is my blog and that is how some of the post on my blog work. I’ve never hidden the fact that I use quotes from other people’s sites in some of my posts. The difference is that I give a link to the source of my quotes (never whole articles). I also put it in quotes and blockquotes – and invite people to read the rest of the article.

in doing this I send significant traffic away from my blogs to other sites. These other sites thank me for this. In fact I get 20 or so emails per day from other sites asking me to quote them and send them traffic.

You’ll also find that what I do is collect these quotes and put them side by side other quotes on the same cameras and thereby give my readers useful content that they wouldnt get on any other site. They see 5, 10 or even 20 or 30 links on the one page on some cameras which point to different reviews on the one camera.

This is different to most spam blogs which automatically (mine are all manually done) just copy and paste large slabs of content onto their blogs – usually without any link.

So the key is attribution, not using full articles, providing a useful and unique content and actually benefitting all concerned (readers, other sites etc).

The comforting thing for me is that people at Google have written to me and talked to me about how I blog in order to learn how to teach others to do it. Not sure they’d do this with a spam blog.

Hope that answers some of your questions.

Let’s look at an entry of your other blog (http://www.livingroom.org.au/photolog/).
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Trusted Reviews has a review of the Olympus µ [mju] Digital 800 (also known as the Olympus Stylus 800) and writes – ‘It may be questionable whether anyone really needs an 8MP compact, but there’s no denying that the Olympus mju 800 is an extremely good camera. Build quality, ease of use and performance are as good as ever. The Bright Capture technology makes low-light photography much easier, and the image quality in SHQ mode is superb. If you simply must have A3-size holiday snaps then it’s ideal.’
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And you call that a blog. The whole site is nothing but copy-and-paste contents from other review sites so that you can earn some Adsense dollars, and you call yourself a blogging guru teaching your followers to blog for profits.

Shame on you.

Have a look, people, and judge for yourself.

Firstly, to important things … Duncan: Go Pies! and as said before the Tassie thing is an Australian thing: we like-heartedly taunt people from Tasmania (Aussie humor … go figure!!!), just as I’m taunted about where I’m from: bleak city … we Aussies just love to take the piss out of each other.

The stealing of content: To me it’s a simple matter: You write it, you copyright it on your site, you own it. Someone else wants to use it they have to ask and only then if the orginal author accepts they have to acknolwedge it. Full Stop! It shouldn’t matter if it’s the web, a book whatever … using conent without permission is just not on.

Looking at both sites (Darren’s and ‘The Shoddy” one) I don’t see too many simarilities. Actually I quite like the little flip in the header image (bottom right).

And it would appear that he has been taken up on his activities and taken steps to rectify it with an apology … let’s give him some lee-way and wait and see.

This unfortunately highlights the danger of flaming on other’s blogs on a personal level as under attack for being Tasmanian I immediately jumped to a wrong and defensive conclusion. I’ve also amended the content on my own blog to reflect my error of judgement.

Further apologies to Darren Rowse for this inconvenience.