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By: Episode 36: Jonathan Bailey on fighting plagiarism « The WordPress Community

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By: Protecting Blogspot Feeds - PlagiarismToday

Protecting Blogspot Feeds - PlagiarismToday — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:21:19 +0000

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By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:38:28 +0000

Naomi: I am sorry to hear about your troubles, please let me know if there is anything specific that I can help you with.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:38:28 +0000

Naomi: I am sorry to hear about your troubles, please let me know if there is anything specific that I can help you with.

By: Naomi Bigelow

Naomi Bigelow — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:48:24 +0000

The entire plagiarism issue makes me ill; sometimes, as today, it makes me wonder if I really want to do any more work on my sites or with my novels. A couple hours before finding this site and reading your article, I was trying to explain to my daughter-in-law the emotional trauma that I experienced when I discovered that two of my manuscripts that were among several in a box that got “lost” somehow (?) are now in print and each has won at least one coveted writers’ award. There is no question that they are the result of someone stealing them but I was so shocked to discover them that I had to leave the book store before I quite literally “lost it” and for the next ten years never discussed it.

A couple months ago, my local computer guru emailed me and let me know that someone had hijacked my website and basically destroyed my work wherein I’d entered pages of writing, photos, and other material that is now gone forever. The perp was blacklisted, but that doesn’t reverse the damage done to me by a fellow author who writes in a genre that I will not even read, let alone write. But all of his/their work appeared with my name on the website. When you expected to follow the menu to my pages, it was none of my content at all.

Now, I have begun reading about the “next big thing” in internet marketing of seeking expired domain names and latching onto those with good traffic or “okay” traffic on sites that could be improved…the entire idea “feels” too much like my past experience. This article at least makes me feel as if I may have some tools in my arsenal to toss out some speed bumps for the parasites that feed off others’ original content. I just have SO much to learn…

By: Naomi Bigelow

Naomi Bigelow — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:48:24 +0000

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:45:26 +0000

Flora: This kind of spamming is typically designed to hone in on keywords that the spam blog is targeting. If you look at the whole of the splog, you’ll probably find keywords repeated regularly. Feed Header may not help as they are likely just snipping the relevant paragraph. The copyright issues are also somewhat vague here as the small amount used could make a case that it is not an infringement.

The bet tact I’ve found against these sites is to report them as spam to their masters. Most hosts, most good ones at least, will take them down.

Let me know if Feed Header helps in these cases! I’ll be eager to hear.