DISQUS

AndyBeard · 1 year ago

At the end of the day, most SEO bloggers I know either ignore scrapers or try to take advantage of them more. If they rank for your content, most likely you wouldn't have ranked for the term anyway, and the scrapers are siloing.

In the early days of a blogs life, I encourage blog scraping, syndication etc and continue to do so throughout its life.

p.s. it is Dave or David Naylor

Jonathan Bailey · 1 year ago

Andy: Thanks for the correction. I have no idea why I typed Doug but it has been fixed. That's what I get for being sleep deprived.

It is strange that you mention that the SEO bloggers you know ignore scrapers. SEO bloggers are the most common group to approach me about stopping the problem. It is clear that there are a lot of varied opinions on this topic but it is safe to say I likely wouldn't have a business model without SEO bloggers.

To each their own I say, I am here to help those that want to put a stop to it or at least reduce the instances.

Trisha · 1 year ago

Hi Jonathan - I manage a large number of blogs for clients, and the biggest frustration I run into is that many of the scrapers I've had trouble with have no contact link or info on their sites (many of them are clearly just "made for adsense" sites), and even checking the domain via a Whois search often yields no results with the prevalence of private domain registration information - sometimes a registrar will respond, often not - so it's difficult to get the offending duplicate content removed when there's no one I can contact......clients don't like to hear "there's nothing we can do"..... I do report them to Google when I find them, but it would still be nice if there were other (easy) avenues or tools.

I'm really glad we have a resource like you to turn to for advice and help.

Jonathan Bailey · 1 year ago

Trisha: If you have any tough cases, feel free to send me an email and have me look at them. I might be able to help. There are things that you can do, specifically filing a DMCA notice with the host, that can remove these sites even if you can't contact them.

Just send me the URLs of a couple of cases and I'll give it a quick look for you.

Hope that this helps!

qarla · 9 months ago

I sometimes backdate my post if I think other posts are deserving to be in the index. I don't know if it's a blogging crime

Jonathan Bailey · 9 months ago

I don't know if it is a blogging "crime" but I would definitely encourage you to use the sticky post feature rather than backdating, it creates a lot of problems and confusion if you aren't clear about when a post was created.