September 13, 2007 by ian
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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Matt says:
September 14, 2007 11:42
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? :-/
Matt says:
September 14, 2007 11:56
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.
ian says:
September 14, 2007 12:31
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.
Matt says:
September 14, 2007 13:54
Sheesh..
Well I for one enjoy your posts and read them every day. Its made my job a lot easier and clients more successful.
Chris says:
September 14, 2007 15:21
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.