I was alerted to this site here from a few readers. Evidently it is syndicating FULL posts from my blog and other online marketers like Jason Calacanis and Jensense.
After looking at the site a bit I am not sure what this guy has to gain by syndicating our content. It appears to be a wordpress blog that is just sucking in posts but then linking back to the source instead of using permalinks to keep the content on there site? Seems like a waste of time to me.
The only real problem I have with it is that it could possible cause problems for my site in regards to SERPS because of the duplicate content detection….
But I guess isnt that what RSS is for? Doesnt it stand for Real Simple Syndication ? How mad can I be at this guy for actually using my rss feed. Of course then where does it stop?
I may have some fun with this guy and his syndication machine…. I wonder just how “automatic” it is =P
February 11, 2006 at 6:40 pm
I’ve tried this before in the past too, after thinking about it more and more, it’s really just stealing content and then putting up ads of your own. People don’t need a single point of reference to view all of content for certain feeds, they can simply put them into their own RSS feed reader and then view them as they come in. I think it’s just stealing — so I’ve stopped since then.
February 8, 2006 at 8:10 am
He has removed all feeds.
February 6, 2006 at 8:03 pm
Yeah I came across this site before too. He’s actually getting search results in google for these posts.
The best thing to do imo is to change your settings in wordpress so that the RSS is set to summary.
In the wordpress admin:
Options >> Reading >> For each article, show: Summary
That way you get the benefit of his links but he doesn’t get the entire content – so you don’t have the duplicate content problem.
February 6, 2006 at 7:01 am
Hey Shoe, is this your site also or did I find another site copying your content. Check this out http://www.copyscape.com/view.php?o=82731&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stats4seo.com%2Fcategory%2Fgeneral%2F&t=1139229958&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shoemoney.com%2F&w=17&c=
I hope this fits maybe I should have used tinyurl. Maybe it’s the same guy. Not sure if this is your friends or what.
February 5, 2006 at 9:36 pm
This sites been doing this for a while, right? I saw someone else complaining about this same site, may be even a month ago.
February 5, 2006 at 6:41 pm
These kinds of sites popup all the time. My blog gets sucked into these kinds of sites all the time. Given that I can’t show AdSense ads on it until I change the domain name, they’re the only ones making money directly from the content
February 5, 2006 at 4:04 pm
He’ll be using feedwordpress.
It’s a really automated system – you could redirect any calls from his IP to a seperate feed with p0rn links on it or something really easily.
What’s weird, is that the feedwordpress plugin is really easy to make archive the posts.
Whoever set that up doesn’t really have a clue.