Stop, blog thief!

May 28 2005

For the second time in two weeks, Technorati has alerted me to republishing of my blog's RSS feed.  In both cases, my RSS content has shown up as blog entries on what essentially are spamblogs on blogspot or typepad -- one advertising recreational vehicles and the other advertising travel to Alaska (for obvious reasons, I'm not linking to either).  I remember seeing other bloggers writing about this phenomena a few weeks back, but this is the first time I've encountered it here.  What's the point?  Any way to stop it?

Ed Brill Highland Park, IL USA Category:  Blogging  Add/View Comments [8]

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  1. 1  Danny Lawrence  | 5/30/2005 8:00:58 PM

    Perhaps a bizarre way to get a better Google ranking? I'm not entirely sure how, but it seems to me that could be the only reason

  1. 2  Christopher Byrne http://www.controlscaddy.com/ | 5/31/2005 10:27:22 AM

    Not a whole hell of a lot, except for making your RSS feed subscription only...I have had this problem with both my RSS feed and reviews I have posted to Amazon.

  1. 3  Tom http://www.TomsRant.com | 5/31/2005 12:17:10 PM

    I have a hard time getting people to read what I write at all, much less get my stuff republished. What would it say about me if I would be flattered that a spammer would re-publish my feed? <grin>

    "I'm a user baby...."

  1. 4  Pascal Van Hecke http://pascal.vanhecke.info | 6/1/2005 5:53:22 PM

    Hi, I did some searching around and came op with a proposal of tagging spamblogs:

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  1. 5  Joel  | 6/7/2005 2:58:56 PM

    ehh.. Tom, I think that the word in the Beck song was not user.. but loser. Just thought I'd point that out.

    "I'm a loser, baby..."

  1. 6  Joel  | 6/7/2005 3:02:09 PM

    and yes.. i know that you were quoting something else.

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