Plagiarism at Lightspeed
I did my post ranking internet marketing tools about 2 hours ago.
A few minutes ago, I found this:
http://www.hotyamarketing.com/internet-marketing-tools-ranked-conclusion-search-rocks/
Wow. Awe-inspiring. Plagiarism at light speed.
I have no problem with people linking, summarizing, using my stuff, etc.. If they ask first.
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Wow… that was fast.. only 2 hours. Pretty scummy to just lift your post like that. Didn’t even attribute it to you. Did he hotlink the image too? :-/
Looks like he grabbed some more of your stuff too.. and hotlinked to your images.
Weird thing is that amongst these copies of your posts are posts filled with seems to be link and text spam..
Seems to be mostly dedicated to coping your content..
http://www.hotyamarketing.com/streaming-video-creating-a-professional-ustream-show/
http://www.hotyamarketing.com/category/uncategorized/page/10/ (halfway down)
There are quite a few more links.
Yah this site has splog written all over it. They’ve got a bot or something, or they’re just grabbing my RSS feed and using that.
Sheesh..
Well I for one enjoy your posts and read them every day. Its made my job a lot easier and clients more successful.
Yep, this is a big internet trend. Basically it’s just a bot that scrapes your posts and republishes them on a wordpress blog either to try and get ad revenue from your keywords and hits or to… well I dunno. It happens to me a lot, and there are numerous blogs that just republish rss from game blogs.