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. This might cause you to question our integrity in all areas.

This post is a little something I wrote for one of my copy-paste spammers, who has stolen pretty much every post on this site and reprinted them without permission or proper credit. They should pick this one up in a few hours as well.

ETA: Before doing this, I sent the company a Cease and Desist letter via email. They actually removed the blog posts that had been copied from my site pretty quickly, which is surprising. When you’re dealing with a spammer, no threat of legal action fazes them. But when the blog is owned by a company or semi-reputable individual who, I’m guessing, hires someone to write content for them not realizing the content might be cut and paste spam, you can get some results this way. I’ve issued two C&D letters in the past week, and both resulted in the content being removed in a timely fashion.

But if you’re on Wordpress, you might avoid the whole problem by using the AntiLeech plugin. It won’t stop a real human from copying and pasting, but it is supposed to detect splog robots and serve them up useless content with links back to your site and the plugin author’s site. I can’t say for sure that it works (how would you test that?), but I’ve had it on two of my most popular blogs for a while now, and I’ve found very few instances of copying (and you’d expect them to be copied a lot more compared to this little blog).

1. Yo, casino spammers
2. Creating a static front page on a blog
3. Plugins to protect Wordpress blogs from sploggers
4. Dealing with sploggers who steal your content
5. Template changes

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