Comments on: Dealing With Scrapers: What Do You Do? http://www.10e20.com/blog/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/ Social Media Marketing Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:40:07 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: How to stop image hotlinking and bandwidth theft | David Airey :: Graphic and Logo Designer http://www.10e20.com/blog/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/comment-page-1/#comment-102609 How to stop image hotlinking and bandwidth theft | David Airey :: Graphic and Logo Designer Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:38:24 +0000 http://www.10e20.com/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/#comment-102609 [...] Dealing with scrapers: what do you do? [...] [...] Dealing with scrapers: what do you do? [...]

]]> By: infectious http://www.10e20.com/blog/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/comment-page-1/#comment-7201 infectious Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:34:08 +0000 http://www.10e20.com/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/#comment-7201 OK, good. Thanks, I enjoy reading here at 10e20.com. :) OK, good. Thanks, I enjoy reading here at 10e20.com. :)

]]> By: Tamar Weinberg http://www.10e20.com/blog/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/comment-page-1/#comment-7069 Tamar Weinberg Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:28:51 +0000 http://www.10e20.com/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/#comment-7069 Yup -- I noticed that this morning. They didn't answer the "please remove" email, so I suppose the hotlinking image threw them off. In any event, all's well that ends well. Yup — I noticed that this morning. They didn’t answer the “please remove” email, so I suppose the hotlinking image threw them off. In any event, all’s well that ends well.

]]> By: HMTKSteve http://www.10e20.com/blog/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/comment-page-1/#comment-7068 HMTKSteve Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:19:23 +0000 http://www.10e20.com/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/#comment-7068 Looks like that particular "auto-scraping" blog no longer scrapes your content! Looks like that particular “auto-scraping” blog no longer scrapes your content!

]]> By: Tamar Weinberg http://www.10e20.com/blog/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/comment-page-1/#comment-7020 Tamar Weinberg Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:11:51 +0000 http://www.10e20.com/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/#comment-7020 <b>infectious</b>: The concern isn't about aggregating content and linking to the site. Your aggregator does just that. What people are doing is taking images and text verbatim and putting it on their own blogs while claiming it as their own. This is the distinction I had hoped to make. There is nothing wrong with your content and you have built a rather cool application there. :) infectious: The concern isn’t about aggregating content and linking to the site. Your aggregator does just that. What people are doing is taking images and text verbatim and putting it on their own blogs while claiming it as their own. This is the distinction I had hoped to make. There is nothing wrong with your content and you have built a rather cool application there. :)

]]> By: infectious http://www.10e20.com/blog/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/comment-page-1/#comment-7015 infectious Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:04:09 +0000 http://www.10e20.com/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/#comment-7015 I guess I am scraping your <a href="http://ectio.us/1805" rel="nofollow">titles</a> in my personal aggregator thingie. Would you like me to remove your records? I guess I am scraping your titles in my personal aggregator thingie. Would you like me to remove your records?

]]> By: Tamar Weinberg http://www.10e20.com/blog/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/comment-page-1/#comment-6826 Tamar Weinberg Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:21:34 +0000 http://www.10e20.com/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/#comment-6826 Nice tips, thanks guys. I did the image changing trick... all images on the splog were plastered with 10e20 copyright images. :) The others are quite useful as well. I actually like Google's shared reader -- I don't know if I would categorize that as 'scraping' -- I found a lot of great blogs that way. The links do point back to the original blog and I end up subscribing to the ones I like! Nice tips, thanks guys.

I did the image changing trick… all images on the splog were plastered with 10e20 copyright images. :)

The others are quite useful as well.

I actually like Google’s shared reader — I don’t know if I would categorize that as ’scraping’ — I found a lot of great blogs that way. The links do point back to the original blog and I end up subscribing to the ones I like!

]]> By: kelvin newman http://www.10e20.com/blog/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/comment-page-1/#comment-6802 kelvin newman Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:02:26 +0000 http://www.10e20.com/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/#comment-6802 I can't believe how little shame people have. I always like the image changing trick, that way you can spoil there scraping page with relative ease. I can’t believe how little shame people have. I always like the image changing trick, that way you can spoil there scraping page with relative ease.

]]> By: Tyler http://www.10e20.com/blog/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/comment-page-1/#comment-6755 Tyler Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:36:06 +0000 http://www.10e20.com/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/#comment-6755 My favorite trick is to set up a Google Alert for the name of my blog, I've caught ALOT of stuff that way! My favorite trick is to set up a Google Alert for the name of my blog, I’ve caught ALOT of stuff that way!

]]> By: Andy Beard http://www.10e20.com/blog/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/comment-page-1/#comment-6752 Andy Beard Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:27:24 +0000 http://www.10e20.com/2007/02/06/dealing-with-scrapers-what-do-you-do/#comment-6752 Include lots of links back to your other content, tag pages etc Have a clear license and other legal information in the footer of each post Use a GPL license and thet them use the content. It is all links, and if you can't beat them, you might as well benefit from it. The problem is that most scrapers are grabbing content from Technorati or news feeds which is a pain, because those services strip out the links. But only do this if every single bit of your content is 100% your own, and you have rights to distrubute it in this fashion. If you are using anyone elses content, such as photos, video etc, possibly the biggest problem is Google Reader, which is effectively designed to create splogs, or aggregated shared content, depending on your point of view. Include lots of links back to your other content, tag pages etc

Have a clear license and other legal information in the footer of each post

Use a GPL license and thet them use the content. It is all links, and if you can’t beat them, you might as well benefit from it.

The problem is that most scrapers are grabbing content from Technorati or news feeds which is a pain, because those services strip out the links.

But only do this if every single bit of your content is 100% your own, and you have rights to distrubute it in this fashion.

If you are using anyone elses content, such as photos, video etc, possibly the biggest problem is Google Reader, which is effectively designed to create splogs, or aggregated shared content, depending on your point of view.

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