Comments on: DownloadSquad Discovers Splogs. Welcome to 2005, Guys.

By: Maria Langer, the Official Web Site* » links for 2007-08-02

Maria Langer, the Official Web Site* » links for 2007-08-02 — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:14:56 +0000

[...] DownloadSquad Discovers Splogs. Welcome to 2005, Guys. Some more commentary about splogs. On Deep Jive Interests. (tags: splog blogging copyright) [...]

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:37:23 +0000

Maria,

I second that suckage. Getting your content stolen really does suck, and perpetrators will only respond to action, unfortunately, and not any kind of appeal to reason, humanity, or fairness.

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:23:03 +0000

I think what I hate most about my blog’s content being picked up by splogs is the part of the RSS feed they pick up. Instead of picking up the first few sentences and linking back to my site — which might actually HELP me attract more readers — they seem to take a random sentence or two out of the middle or end of the feed. Since my feed ends with a copyright notice, THAT’S what they’re often picking up.

This proves two things:
(1) The copyright notice is clearly useless to stop content from being picked up by splogs.
(2) The splogs that do this are completely worthless to readers that happen upon them.

Splogging is an extremely sore subject with me — as Jonathan B will attest! But any kind of copyright infringement really bugs me. I make my living as a writer and when people steal my words, they’re stealing my livelihood. And that simply sucks.

By: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links! | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:53:27 +0000

[...] Today they have written a little about content theft, it isn't a great article, and doesn't really go into many of the problems, or link through to any authority sources. [...]

By: Duncan

Duncan — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:23:03 +0000

Spot on Headline.
What I found really amazing is that they were carrying on about cut and paste blogs..WTF? There wouldn’t be many of those compared to automated splogs, and what exactly would the point be to cut and paste when you can just automatically do it? Two tiers of sploggers???

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:08:55 +0000

Full content RSS feeds seem to be one of the ways that splogs fill their ill intentioned pages. It sucks as a publisher to be forced to switch to excerpt feeds based on this threat though.

Another downside to the slog plague is that Google has (rightfully) been ruthless in trying to expunge them from its search rankings. Unfortunately legitimate websites have been hurt by this as well at times, and in some cases it has caused extreme financial hardship.

By: Brent

Brent — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:51:30 +0000

It isn’t talked about much, but I would argue that many of the most well-known technology blogs frequently “borrow” content and ideas from other blogs without properly crediting their source. I’ve seen it in action many times.

The splogs are parasites that will only die when ad sellers penalize that type of activity.

Brent