Comments on: Are Free Blogs More Likely Scraped?

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:29:03 +0000

If there is anything that I can do, please feel free to email me with the specifics of the case, I might be able to have a look and help resolve the matter.Best of luck!

By: Arno

Arno — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:45:21 +0000

Now this is a very interesting site, Jonathan! I have recently launched a blog (25th January 2009). Everything went well until last weekend. All of a sudden I ended up with 118 nonsensical (well, at least as far as I am concerned) posts and am constantly reminded that I have post waiting to be moderated. Needless to say, bloggin at that specific blog-site has become anything but a pleasure.So, this afternoon I am googling for blogsites and visiting to see if any specific site will cater for my needs. Well, lo and behold, I happened on yours without knowing that it is addressing the very problem I'm confronted with presently. (BTW it is "synchronistic" incidents like this that makes me believe more firmly in a benevolent universe )Okay, I surmised that you will not be able to solve my problem, but it is good to see there is someone taking a keen interest in this plague.All the best.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:41:05 +0000

@zania -
Glad that it was able to help!

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:41:05 +0000

@zania - Glad that it was able to help!

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:41:05 +0000

@zania - Glad that it was able to help!

By: zania

zania — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:47:48 +0000

Thanks Jonathan
I’m just updating my ping list now and taking out pingomatic.
Then I’m off to feedburner to check on who I chose to ping there.
As I have many many blogs (not scraper splogs incidentally) it’ll take a while!

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:22:40 +0000

Zania: Try this link to an article I wrote on the Blog Herald: http://www.blogherald.com/2007/09/17/how-to-avoid-spambots-by-using-pinging-services/

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:22:40 +0000

Zania: Try this link to an article I wrote on the Blog Herald: http://www.blogherald.com/2007/09/17/how-to-avo…

By: zania

zania — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:21:34 +0000

Thanks for the info Jonathan.
I’m just going through your posts now to find out more about targetting search engine individually.
Thanks!

By: zania

zania — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:58:21 +0000

I have free blogs on blogger and wordpress.com, paid blogs on typepad, and my own hosted blogs on WordPress and most of them get scraped regularly, with the exception of the Typepad blogs (but one of those gets the posts plagiarised by being re-written somewhere else instead…).
Personally, it has made little difference where the blog is hosted, but it is all down to the keywords used. My blogs with ‘popular’ keywords get scraped so often I have given up caring about it. I just use RSS Footer and hope that the scraper doesn’t bother to eliminate the link back to the post I put above each blog entry.
I write adult as well as mainstream blogs and the adult ones are scraped the worst. What makes me laugh is that one blog is for adult webmasters and is not ‘adult’ in content at all, but because I use an ‘adult keyword’ in the title, it regularly gets scraped for adult splogs. I hope the readers of the splogs are well hacked off with the scaper by the results!