This site named SEOData.com seems to be scrapping tons of sites. I know I produce a full RSS feed, including comments, but it is not there for people to take my whole post and comments and place them on their own site. Common. Most people just steal the normal (short feed), and I tend not to call them out on it.
But seriously man. Not only are you taking my content (one and two examples), you are taking others.
To make it worse, you are selling a product that helps others do the same thing.
Not good.
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And that's exactly why I don't publish full RSS feeds.
Posted by: DazzlinDonna | February 12, 2007 11:50 AM
Really? I won't let a scraper stop me from publishing a feed my users requested.
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | February 12, 2007 11:52 AM
why you don't you serve some different content when they request the feed?
Posted by: keno | February 12, 2007 12:06 PM
Too busy writing original content to play games with them. ;-)
Maybe I will, if they don't pull it within a few days.
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | February 12, 2007 12:14 PM
This is why all of my blog posts have an image in them, and then I can put an .htaccess file that will serve an image saying "This content is copyrighted" to anyone who is accessing the image out of our domain.
I'm actually experimenting with only blocking particular domains that I know are obvious scrapers for malicious intent (or desire to monetize off of our content). It works rather well.
There's a benefit to posting images in blog posts beyond aesthetics and attractiveness!
I wrote about scraping last week due to another "SEO" site that was recently doing the same thing. There's good advice in the comments too.
Let me know if you need help with it.
Posted by: Tamar Weinberg | February 12, 2007 12:31 PM
Yea, doable --- one day. Thanks for the advice.
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | February 12, 2007 12:34 PM
Thanks for keeping the full feed!
Posted by: Hawaii SEOd | February 12, 2007 1:20 PM