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By: Four Ways to Protect Your Blog from Plagiarism | Blog World Expo Blog

Four Ways to Protect Your Blog from Plagiarism | Blog World Expo Blog — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:45:50 +0000

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By: James

James — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:23:58 +0000

@ Mohamed – Askimet rocks. Considering the number of hits we have overall to this site, having less than 10 spam hits per day is awesome. (Maybe the bots haven’t discovered us yet? Shhhh.)

The splots seem to come and go. I try to shut down the ones I can, but I find the situation mostly tossed back in my lap by hosts, which is very stupid; they all have abuse policies and ask that people report stuff like this.

*sigh*

By: Mohamed

Mohamed — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:13:00 +0000

Hi James,

Great post!

The splogs have found my site as well. I was getting inundated with spam trackbacks and comments so I had installed SK2 — that ended up flagging legitimate posts. So I went back to Akismet. Although I need to manually approve some posts – it’s better than going through and sifting through the dozens of spam trackbacks and comments that I get.

I haven’t taken the step of trying to shut the splog(s) down as yet – but if the amount of spam increases I’ll seriously need to look at doing just that.

Regards,

Mohamed

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By: Thoughts on Themes, RSS and Splogs

Thoughts on Themes, RSS and Splogs — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:22:30 +0000

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By: What a Writer is Reading on the Web, 3/23/08 | Real Words

What a Writer is Reading on the Web, 3/23/08 | Real Words — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:32:20 +0000

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By: Melissa Donovan

Melissa Donovan — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:56:16 +0000

Today I followed an incoming link to my site that I found on Technorati. I posted "Step Out of Your Shoes" not ten hours ago and already a shoe selling splog seems to have linked up, but when I visited the link, I got the following message: The website you are trying to view has been suspended due to a breach of our Acceptable Use Policy. So, some hosts out there are doing the good work. @James, Hmm. Don't even get me started. Melissa Donovan's last blog post..Step Out of Your Shoes

By: James

James — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:42:52 +0000

@ Wendy and Aurelius – Welcome to both of you and we’re glad we could help. Looking forward to seeing you around more often!

@ Melissa – I hadn’t realized I was about to fall prey until I had gathered my ideas for posts to write, sat down, and realized they were *all* about controversial posts from the same person… who, uh, seemed to be contradicting herself with every one.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:18:12 +0000

I got the link to this post from Random Inkings and I'm so glad I did. I get these weird "scrapers" all the time and had no idea what they were. I knew they felt wrong, and I just deleted them. Thank you so much for explaining it. This is a great site, I'm really glad to have found it. Wendy's last blog post..Part Two: Q&A Sunday - NASA

By: Aurelius Tjins

Aurelius Tjins — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:13:34 +0000

I can very well relate to this article. It does happen all the time. I am glad you have pointed these out. I have enjoyed reading this very insightful post. Very engaging and informative. Thanks for sharing. Aurelius Tjins's last blog post..â€œIâ€™m an Internet Marketerâ€

By: Allison

Allison — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:21:02 +0000

@ Jonathan - Thanks! Yeah, it's easier than it looks... I finally got my butt in gear and finished the DMCA thingy. Now I just have to print it out, sign it, and send it in! *checks one thing off her to-do list* Allison's last blog post..Naked Spicy Tuna Roll