Some of my fellow bloggers have noticed an errant website posting full content feeds of certain blogs. In the past couple of hours more than a dozen posts from this blog have been posted.
In order to discourage this, and while other resources are mobilized, I will disable full feed content for the time being. Instead, a 75 word “summary feed” will be published. I opologize for the inconvenience that this may cause to my regular readers.
If any of you, who are reading this, have faced a similar situation before…I would be interested in knowing what countermeasures you took.
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Which site is doing that? What a strange thing to do.
Luke, I am not linking or mentioning the site just for the sake of not giving it more publicity. I can email you the information if you wish.
Understood. That’s just such a strange problem. I’d never heard of that before.
Hi, by the way. I’ve been reading for a few weeks now and really enjoy your blog. I usually get your feed and unfortunately rarely have time to comment. I work as a public tax accountant so spare time to leave comments is rare these days.
My content has been scraped in the past. If I got reference back and they weren’t running ads, I didn’t care. If they were running ads or weren’t linking back, I reported them to their hosting provider saying that they were hosting stolen content.
I noticed this site a couple of days ago from a post (I think it’s the CoPF) and I checked it out. Though I don’t like the idea of copying the entire content without anything of the owner’s own, I didn’t feel it bothers me that much. It does point out the original author of the story instead of claim they are his/her own.
Trent: hmm..this guy is running ads :)..lots of them.
Sun: I wouldn’t have bothered much, except that it is full feed…and then there was a point when he got so much of my stuff that at least one reader asked me if it’s my website !! Then I had to do something…let me see how it goes from here.
my content was being scraped as well.
There are two sides to each option;
if you run full feeds your content might get scraped by vulture blogs, but you will probably end up with more traffic, because most of these blogs actually do add a link back.
if you choose partial feeds, your traffic might dip a bit, but your content if better protected.
I personally would rather protect my content since i place more value on providing exclusive content to my readers, rather than receive lots of passers-by.
I switched to partial feed as soon as I found my content being scraped, and have not gone back since.
No complaints from my readers yet, and in fact, I have found that now I get decent traffic from my subscribers alone.
Thanks for the suggestions guys.
Golbguru,
I have changed to partial feeds as you did, but the site is still publishing My Wealth Builder’s content. I noticed that the site stopped publishing your content after this post. So I have published a similar post on My Wealth Builder.
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