I have at least two sites that scrape my blog content for every single post. It used to bother me, but I am pretty sure Google knows that I am the original source for the content so I won’t get a duplication content penalty.
Today I saw they actually screwed up my feed some how and credited Dan Daugherty from RentMarketer.com as the source from the recent blog post below. Oh well, I noticed they are stealing from Dan’s blog too.
It is hard to fight them since they offer no contact info on their site.
I guess the thing that really bugs me is they place contextual advertising next to the content and Google lets them make money from stealing my content.
I remember that Matt Cutts from Google indicating at PubCon that they are going to start cracking down on this but I have not seen it yet. If Google would police the sites that have their contextual advertising on, these people would have little reason to steal my content.
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Looks like Google scraped there lights today for “earth hour”
http://www.google.com/
Dave,
I am new to blogging and was excited to see I got comments. I was dissaponted to see it was just spammers. I was doubbly disappointed that they would get my name wrong.
PS I found you blog from BlogCatalog.
Ned,
you have a nice blog, Good info there….when I saw “baltimore” I thought of the many properties in columbia ,md My wife grew up there.
Property use to be very high end there.
Keep up the good work!
Robbie
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