Comments on: Warning to WordPress Book Bloggers: A Splogger May Be Stealing Your Posts – A Victim’s Tale, or My Fight to Keep My Site From Turning Into a Really Bad Polish Joke

By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom

1minutebookreviewswordpresscom — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:55:08 +0000

What’s scary is that it may not depend on the number of visitors … it could happen to anybody.

By: Gladys Hobson

Gladys Hobson — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:46:55 +0000

Golly – how interesting. I did not know such things happened. I don’t get that many visits so my posts are unlikely to be nicked!

By: ashrafweb

ashrafweb — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:07:41 +0000

thanks alot!!

By: thewritingrunner

thewritingrunner — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:12:51 +0000

Google Alerts might be a helpful way to track this sort of thing, assuming you have a phrase that appears in every post, etc. Good idea!

By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom

1minutebookreviewswordpresscom — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:59:54 +0000

Thank you all for helping to spread the word about this rapidly spreading form of abuse and often copyright infringement. Impatientreader’s tip about tracking your content with Google Alerts is one I’d have put on my list if I’d thought of it.

I suspect that much more splogging is going on than many WordPress bloggers know about, because to spot a lot of the abuses, you have to monitor the use of your content daily. I do this by checking Technorati, but doing it through Google Alerts might work just as well. Excellent suggestion.

Interestingly, the abuse has occurred only on Technorati, not the blog search engine Ice Rocket, which seems to have found a way to limit or prevent such abuses.
Jan

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:41:02 +0000

Thanks for the warning. It’s amazing how true the old adage is: “Where there’s money, there’s thieves.”

By: impatientreaderdotcom

impatientreaderdotcom — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:29:18 +0000

Janice, I’m so sorry you’re having to deal with this! I have as well, but the content thief in my case was a high school kid blogging with an established blog host in the U.S., and it was simple to contact the host and get my content taken down.

It’s the international content thieves like your “Polish joke” that worry me. Especially if the content gets translated. I try to track my content with Google Alerts but it’s not fool-proof. Anyway, I wish you the best of luck protecting your content.

By: cbertel

cbertel — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:29:38 +0000

I just found my stuff has been pirated, too. Thanks for the “heads up.”

Cindy
http://bookomnivore.com

By: cuzzoclay

cuzzoclay — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:43:19 +0000

I’m new to WordPress and I enjoy this service. I found a post of mine on a site (that isn’t mine) and had no idea what was going on there. Thank you for the “heads-up” on this issue.
I will take the appropriate steps. Thanx again!
Good luck on your end.
Peace,
Clay