Comments on: Update on "Copy-Gate"

By: Telling It Like It Is

Telling It Like It Is — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:12:00 +0000

I just had the same thing happen to my blog. This jerk had the nerve to copy and paste my text and post it on their own blog. The post copied was about viral linking strategies, and couldn't even come up with their own text. Fortunately I have Google Alerts set up, and that's how I discovered it.

The jerk in question has since deleted the post, but there's no telling how many other posts have been stolen. I've found it happens quite often with non-English blogs, where the blogger copies English text and translates it over to their own language, but still has links to the original blog.

I posted about it, and informed the Google Complaint Department about the offending post, and Google replied very promptly that they were looking into it.

By: Trinity

Trinity — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 07:17:00 +0000

I hope I could do something to get rid of that thieves… I haven’t found any solution for me as well…

Where can we find that the site is subscribed to our blog? I want to unsubscribe them as well but I can’t find any clue which subscriber that stole my content.

I would love to hear from you if you have any news or solution for this problem..

Thanks for the link as well I learn from your post too.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:28:00 +0000

I haven't had this happen to me... exactly. I do regularly get sites that take excerpts of my posts and then link back to me.

That's almost as bad. Potentially, Google could classify them as a link farm, see links to my site and penalize me for it. Google says that is rare, but it still happens.

There is a good article in the Wordpress community on this issue HERE. It gives some good tips on what to do and some good tools to help.

I wish the laws would catch up with the technology so some of these spammers would go to jail and quit slogging up the internet.

Very annoying.

By: Sheila

Sheila — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:17:00 +0000

Thanks for the info! Hopefully there will soon be more help for those who are having to deal with this. It really is a shame!

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:43:00 +0000

Very clever! I wonder what the motive could be though? If they are somehow making money off of your content?

By: ~ Melody ~

~ Melody ~ — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:08:00 +0000

I never think about this. Thanks for posting, but I am so sorry you had to deal with it.

You know, I am never surprised anymore at what people will do. I don’t like lazy people…and those stealing instead of writing their own posts are lazy with no morals.