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1. Drew Nichols March 17th, 2007 8:14 am

   Greg, I got a kick out of this post showing up on the home page of that site.

   Simple solution… file a DMCA complaint with their web host: colo4dallas. I verified this with traceroute.

2. Greg Swann March 17th, 2007 8:26 am

   Excellent. Thank you.

3. Derek Burress March 17th, 2007 8:43 am

   In your wordpress settings is a button about syndication. I started fighting back by changing it from the full preview to the partial preview. That way only like the first paragraph shows up and if people really are interested in reading my article, they can click the header and come to my site.

4. Greg Swann March 17th, 2007 8:54 am

   Anthony Barba sent me a screenshot, god bless him:

   

5. Anthony Barba March 17th, 2007 8:57 am

   If you do speak to Google give them the following to help identify the culprits,

   * google_ad_client = “ca-pub-5420456108545544″

   * google-analytics id UA-617942-3

   Larger question: How much money is Google making on these type of sites? Is Google’s AdSense supplying the true motivation?

6. Greg Swann March 17th, 2007 9:01 am

   > Larger question: How much money is Google making on these type of sites? Is Google’s AdSense supplying the true motivation?

   Indeed. Google’s defense is, “We didn’t know the gun was loaded.” It takes months to get a response out of them, but a plaintiff’s attorney could use every one of those complaints to show that Google had constructive knowledge of abuse and continued to profit from it.

7. Dan Green March 17th, 2007 9:15 am

   Should I feel insulted that The Mortgage Reports didn’t make the cut?

   Conflicted in Chicago,
   Dan

8. Greg Swann March 17th, 2007 9:34 am

   > Should I feel insulted that The Mortgage Reports didn’t make the cut?

   Just think about when all your Bring the Blog sprogs start to get splogged! When there’s constabulary work to be done, the constable’s lot is a terrible one…

9. Anthony Barba March 17th, 2007 9:35 am

   Charlie Munger correctly asserts in his infamous 24 Standard Causes of Human Misjudgment speech to Harvard Law School:

   “If you carry bushel baskets full of money through the ghetto, and made it easy to steal, that would be a considerable human sin, because you’d be causing a lot of bad behavior, and the bad behavior would spread.”

10. David G from Zillow.com March 17th, 2007 11:05 am

    These splogs are frustrating. Funny thing is that their “sources” page is actually a great resource - http://www.realne.ws/cms/?q=aggregator/sources.
    If they just published that, front and center on the home page, it could become a popular destination and add value.

    The Sellsius team seem to have the best solution; they use a partial feed but their posts are also tagged with “Hi there! Thanks for subscribing to our feed. If you’re hungry for more, please click the headline. Thanks!”

    You could also contact the publisher and ask them to yank your feed:

    Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
    Domain Name: REALNE.WS
    Created on: 08-Feb-07
    Expires on: 08-Feb-09
    Last Updated on: 10-Feb-07

    Administrative Contact:
    POTF Networking, Admin admin@potf.net
    LaSalle
    Chicago, Illinois 60610
    United States
    7735807354

    Technical Contact:
    POTF Networking, Admin admin@potf.net
    LaSalle
    Chicago, Illinois 60610
    United States
    7735807354

11. jf.sellsius March 17th, 2007 11:56 am

    We did what Derek did—we abbreviated our feed so they only get a short tease—unfair to feedreading subscribers unfortunately.
    And as Drew suggests, we have used DMCA.
    We have also used the Sellsius Stop Splog method—-look up the domain owner & rouse him at midnight and splain it to him nicely. Surprisingly effective.

12. Athol Kay March 17th, 2007 8:07 pm

    Complained to Google and Godaddy.

    I’m seriously starting to consider going the Sellsius route and shortening the feed. RSS isn’t secure and I though the purpose of RSS was to get visitors to return to the site anyway. Not ideal, but…. :-/

13. RE Agent in CT » Why Do I Have A “Steal My Blog” Icon? March 17th, 2007 9:27 pm

    [...] Greg Swann pointed out that myself and a number of other real estate bloggers are having their content stolen. Again. In this case it’s The Real Estate Guide my older site getting leeched from. [...]

14. apella March 18th, 2007 12:04 am

    I have done the short post on a couple of my blogs to send the traffic to the main post place. I guess your made in the blog world when you are a source, have something to shoot for now.

15. Steel This Blog Post - Friday Fun with Splog Busters! | Rain City Guide | A Seattle Real Estate Blog... May 11th, 2007 5:24 pm

    [...] It’s no secret that Mr. Swan holds splogs in same high regard that the Viacom holds YouTube & Google in right now. In fact, he has even attempted to contact splog owners in order to get them to remove the offending content. (Good luck with that Greg - your gonna love this blog post). Mr. Luther has more enlightened attitude toward the problem. He believed that if someone is stealing your content, that almost always means that you’re writing good stuff! [...]