The first thing that I do is find out if they advertise with AdSense, and then I report them.

The Blogspot blogs are the worse. And, that’s funny, because they’re owned by Google. You would think that Google would be able to get rid of those blogs the quickest.

Check out this post on duplicate content and especially the comments for some help. There are some really good tips on using scrapers to your advantage there.

I wonder if putting a link to the blog homepage in every post will help?

Thanks for the tips.

John

also,,how can you tell if you have been scraped?

Thank you

But, if I did not benefit from the backlink, I would have complained directly to the Web site host.

Robert A. Kearse

Now I hope the scumbags get booted from Google, dropped by their host, and mauled by a wild, diseased kangaroo all in the same day.

I’ll report back with my results.

Thanks!

I’m not sure if I’m allowed to paste in the URL here. So just google for “Preventing Image Bandwidth Theft With .htaccess”. There would be a whole list of sites that give the detailed instructions.

Voila! No more bandwidth stolen!

Just wanted to say thanks. It took me a little over a month to get my scraper banned off google. I used most of your tactics, including calling the guy on the phone.
Yes, it was quite time consuming, and I’m sure it’ll happen again, but the payoff was SO worth it. The bastard thought he was invincible, until his affiliate partner was notified (by me) and his site suddenly went poof.

Not quite as satisfying as a punch in the face, but better than nothing!

Over the last few weeks I too have suffered. It has taken 2 years of hard work to build up a reputable website and within 2 weeks a relatively new ‘news source’: copies RSS and to add insult to injury scrapes the site using mega amounts of my bandwidth.

We were doing fine in search engines up until, our titles were top of the list within minutes of posting.
Not now since the the ‘news source’ they are.

quote:
“Global Social News Platform aspires to connect people through news and create global communities of interest. Where topics and ideas: offer continuously updated news from thousands of sources”:

The ultimate snub is you no longer need to directly access the ‘News site’ as you can now install their widgets.

Thanks once again for the heads up, the gloves are on round one begins. :o)

See what I mean. For example: In Google Images, when searching for “site:sparklette.net
graffiti”, all the results that show up are other websites rather than
the original http://sparklette.net/

It’s frustrating and almost heartbreaking. It’s puzzling why Google is recognising these content scrapers rather than my blog, which has a PR 5.

What’s even more puzzling is that just barely 2 weeks ago, the exact same keyword searches had shown my site as one of the search results. Yet today, this is no longer true.

I am lost.

And it’s completely untrue that Google figures out which one is the original. I’ve got some scrapers out there scraping my content from other scrapers!

Yes, while it wont stop these shitheads to scrap your blog, at least it will make their life difficutl!!

Keep up the great work!
Cheers!

You can first check if your site is being scraped using a service like copyscape (copyscape.com) that will search for duplicate content from your URL.