Comments on: Blog Scraping Revenge Squad

By: Ken Jones

Ken Jones — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:02:35 +0000

Well, I haven’t had anymore pingbacks as a result of the self-referencing links in anymore of my posts, so I guess they’ve either noticed that they’ve been busted and stopped copying me, or decided that my content’s not worth nicking anymore. I knew I didn’t have the link-weight to be able to pressure them the way Kalena could (and it was lucky for her that it turned out to be the office junior playing with things his bosses didn’t like) but I think it just helped to vent some of the frustration.

By: spostareduro

spostareduro — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:50:41 +0000

(copy paste from Sphinn comment)
Im afraid that what resolves came about with Kalenas miracle spanking of the her thief in question was a fluke. She got lucky. Unfortunately, I’m not sure what can be done in your case.

By: Ken Jones

Ken Jones — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:53:32 +0000

David, I’ve been trying to make sure to put a link back to one of my other posts each time I put something new up here. That’s how I got the pingback that spotted this scraper.
Not sure if I saw it mentioned on one of your posts over a MetaToast or if it was somewhere else, but it’s definitely good practice to self link for exactly this purpose.

By: David LaFerney

David LaFerney — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:33:04 +0000

Hey Ken, try to always include (in your post) a link back to itself. That way if you get scraped the wankers will at least be giving you a link, Google will probably see that you are the original, and it will show as a pingback in your blog so you will be alerted to it, and you can decide what action if any to take.

I’m having deja vous here. Did I already write this same thing on your blog?

Anyway, even if I did, it still works.