Comments on: Fight Fire With Fire: Hitting Sploggers Back Where it Hurts

By: Ken Hill

Ken Hill — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:52:45 +0000

Great article

To Chris at the top of the comments. I also complained to AuctionsAds and got a similar response. They basically washed their hands of the whole matter

By: James Lee

James Lee — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:32:52 +0000

Rather than splogging, they should article directory blogs where permission is given to use the content. The result is the same and no one is angry with you.

By: Raja

Raja — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:05:47 +0000

from my reading google may be take action first

By: Joshua Dorkin

Joshua Dorkin — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:48:15 +0000

These people rely on the fact that companies Google and Kontera can’t keep up with all the sites in their network. If the ad networks were more responsible, there would be no benefit to running SPLOGS.

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:32:25 +0000

I’m hoping something IS done about this. I’m also fighting sploggers. It irks me to know end that people scrape content from my site, then present it as blog summaries on AdSense-laden pages. Amazingly, some of these sites even display the copyright message that appears on every post in my RSS feed.

I’ve begun commenting on the posts. I have a text clipping I drag into the comment field. It says:

“THIS POST CONTAINS CONTENT THAT HAS BEEN ILLEGALLY COPIED IN PART FROM MY WEB SITE. THE OWNER OF THIS SITE IS GUILTY OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. DO NOT CLICK ANY ADS OR LINKS ON THIS SITE.”

I’ve also reported every single page I find as an AdSense TOS violation.

I don’t know if any of this helps, but I feel that I have to do SOMETHING to fight back. I think we all should.

By: Tom LeDree

Tom LeDree — Wed, 30 May 2007 18:41:40 +0000

I’m guessing nothing will get done. You might get a email back from his host saying they are looking into it if your lucky. It’s a shame but just like all other sorts of piracy online ( mp3′s/games/movies) copyrights seem to be ignored.

By: Joshua Dorkin

Joshua Dorkin — Tue, 29 May 2007 14:43:21 +0000

I haven’t tried the plugin . . . do you use it?

As for Google, I haven’t targeted them in the past, so I have no clue about their responsiveness, but hosting companies are usually pretty good. We’ll see!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 29 May 2007 10:00:01 +0000

Good luck with this. In my experience Google expect you you to jump through about 50 legal hoops before they’ll even think of doing anything, and when I complained to AuctionsAds about a scraper they just didn’t want to know, and were actually quite rude in their emails back to me saying it was nothing to do with them!

They were paying people to steal my content and it was nothing to do with them? Ok.

Have you tried the AntiLeech plugin? It may help.