Another asshat splogging site

This assclown just sent me 18 trackbacks. By the time I clicked back to them, they were all coming up as 404s, but sure enough, he’d reposted my articles without permission. He even says in his sidebar that not all of these articles are his – some of them are feeds from other sites and [...]

Domain Rehabilitation: recovering pagerank

As I said recently, I’m working on rehabilitating this domain. One of the problems I’ve diagnosed with it is that my pagerank is zeroed out. Well, you know how I feel about that, but they won, we lost, and people still factor visible pagerank in when deciding what a domain is worth. Which really doesn’t [...]

Domain Rehabilitation project

I changed my mind – I’m not selling the site yet. I was going to post about this the other day, then I discovered this site had been totally splogged, and that made me even more certain about getting the site into better shape and then selling it for a decent price eventually. Then I [...]

Dealing with sploggers who steal your content

Recently, I discovered that some company blog had been stealing my articles and posting them on their own blog like they had written them themselves. One of their blog categories contained only one article that wasn’t mine, and it sounded familiar, and in the course of all this, they revealed that they think making your [...]

A little present for my spammers

We are a company who plagiarizes other people’s blogs to build our own, as you can tell by reading this and wondering why we would reveal such a thing about ourselves. The answer is that we unthinkingly copy and paste from a blog called Blue Mushrooms with no respect for copyrights or concerns about plagiarism. [...]