Comments on: Victory In My Battle Against Feed Scraping Content Thief 4Comedy.com (Updated)

By: barackoli

barackoli — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:52:44 +0000

cool….great info. thanks for sharing

By: YellowSEO

YellowSEO — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:53:23 +0000

I also always add links back to the original blog post and mention the websites name in it always in the content. So even id the scraper end up copying everything and getting indexed its still building links to my website till I get the the scrapping site removed.

By: gary viray

gary viray — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:04:21 +0000

I used this trick you mentioned here and it worked like a charm!

Thank you very much.

Now, the annoying s*ckers are gone and dead. Good for them.

By: Webmaster-Source » » Webmaster Articles Blog Carnival - July 18, 2007 Edition

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:40:34 +0000

[...] Madeleine Begun Kane of Mad Kane’s Humor Blog presents Victory in My Battle Against Feed Scraping Content Thief 4Comedy.com. I recommend reading this. Feed scraping blogs are becoming increasingly common, and I believe it’s safe to say that most bloggers don’t like them. [...]

By: Kai's personal space

Kai's personal space — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:02:03 +0000

The Blogger’s Mardi-gras…

Welcome to the July 2, 2007 edition of bloggers mardi gras. We have a wonderful mixed bag this month and lots of great, and interesting reading for y’all to read. Over the coming months we’re going to be going on a small blog tour of…

By: VoIP Lowdown » Carnival of Emerging Technologies #4

VoIP Lowdown » Carnival of Emerging Technologies #4 — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:25:01 +0000

[...] Madeleine Begun Kane presents Victory In My Battle Against Feed Scraping Content Thief 4Comedy.com posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog. Madkane emerged victorious in her battle against the one of the RSS feed scraping content thieves. The issue is technical. A must read for everyone. [...]

By: madkane

madkane — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:30:04 +0000

Quixote, thanks for sharing your saga. So glad it had a happy ending!

Jayne, it’s always nice to meet another humor blogger. So glad you found my info helpful. And thanks for sharing your image solution. :)

By: JayneM

JayneM — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:01:30 +0000

That’s great to know!

I had a site that the entire thing was being stolen by a scraper. It was a ratings and reviews site with lots of images, so I was able to go into my control panel and block any off-site website from using images from my domain.

It didn’t stop them stealing content, but it made their pages look like crap because each one had 50+ broken image links all over it. LOL

Wow… came here because I’d searched for humor blogs (I have one too) and found some really useful information! Thanks!

By: quixote

quixote — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:37:41 +0000

My old blog used to be on blogspot, and that was the one being snaffled. I complained to the site’s ISP, Google, the works. The ISP at least answered messages, for what that was worth. Google was too busy even for that. I couldn’t have done an htaccess file. (When I saw that solution I had a big “DOH!” moment. Why didn’t I think of that? I should’ve known.)

However, I was moving my blog to wordpress on my own site anyway when all this flared up because I didn’t care for the way all the Big Players terms of service were trending. (I.e. you own your work, but we can use it whenever we like for whatever we like.)

So all I could think to do with the old stuff on blogspot was to replace everything with a message that the content was being stolen, and then stick my head in the sand. (It works amazingly well. I can see why the Shrub does it all the time.)

As for my Wordpress blog, after reading this, I raced right over and installed Antileech. I also felt optimistic enough to check on the scrape feeders … and, lo and behold, they’re off the web. Error 404, site not found. Woot!

By: madkane

madkane — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:46:08 +0000

Jonathan, thanks so much for the info and offer. I’ll keep it all in mind … while I’m keeping my fingers crossed that 4Comedy.com remains out of commission. In the meantime, I’ve added your site to the post’s resource list.

Paul, you’re welcome, and thanks.

Keith, thanks. Yes it’s very odd that they’ve left all their data hanging out there.

Quixote, you’re very welcome. I’m so sorry to hear you’ve had similar problems and wish you luck solving them. I hope what I did works for you. Please let me know how you make out.

Thanks Batocchio and you’re welcome.