Re: blogs and scrapers

**D* G* <d*@kos.net>**

Speaking of blogs and scrapers...   you might want to check out
http://gardening-blogs.emoondo.com/

There were quire a few gardening blog articles there in their entirety  
- and I'm pretty sure some of folks on this list were there.  Pass the  
word along to your friends - but not on your blogs or you'll give the  
guy a ton of traffic. :-)    I've already fired the first shot in the  
dmca takedown of mine.

And just for your own info - there's a very simple way to get notice  
of this kind of thing.   I have a wordpress plugin that puts a  
copyright line on the bottom of every post.  This is not removed by  
general scraping so a simple google alert with the topic  
link:yoururl.com will pull up any sites that scrape my posts..  Simple  
and google does all the work.  You can do something similar with the  
link: command manually for your url but the google alerts does it  
automatically for all my sites.  For those who haven't tried this -  
the command is a google operative and if you enter link:anyurl into  
the google search box, it will tell you who's linking to that url.
All the best

Doug

Douglas Green
Online Garden Publishing
Blog:  http://blog.douggreensgarden.com
Home: http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com

On 27-Jan-08, at 10:36 AM, Douglas Green wrote:

> This is a fascinating link (if you're a blogger) of what happens to
> your post after you click "publish".   So while I don't worry about
> scraper-bots and automated sites (the world is too short to obsess
> about that stuff),  if they hit google news and are a "real" site,
> then I'll do a take-down notice.
>
> But this graphic is priceless in explaining how the blog "stuff"
> works.  And my post about beer is being written as we speak. :-)
>
> http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2008/ff_secretlife_1602
>
> Doug
>
> Douglas Green
> Online Garden Publishing
> Blog:  http://blog.douggreensgarden.com
> Home: http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com
>
>
>
> On 26-Jan-08, at 7:00 PM, Nancy Szerlag wrote:
>
>> So Doug - have you been scraped?
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