Comments on: Content Thieves http://www.toprankblog.com/2005/12/content-thieves/ Grow your business with TopRank Online Marketing tips, articles, & experts interviews on social media, digital PR & search engine marketing. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:01:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: links for 2006-06-11 http://www.toprankblog.com/2005/12/content-thieves/#comment-8783 links for 2006-06-11 Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:39:01 +0000 http://www.toprankblog.com/?p=739#comment-8783 [...] Content Thieves [...] Content Thieves

]]> By: Lee Odden http://www.toprankblog.com/2005/12/content-thieves/#comment-1082 Lee Odden Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:00:36 +0000 http://www.toprankblog.com/?p=739#comment-1082 Yeah, but is that the same thing? If I rip a copy of a song, I don't go around pawning it off as my creation to make money from it. Yeah, but is that the same thing? If I rip a copy of a song, I don’t go around pawning it off as my creation to make money from it.

]]> By: quadszilla http://www.toprankblog.com/2005/12/content-thieves/#comment-1081 quadszilla Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:49:45 +0000 http://www.toprankblog.com/?p=739#comment-1081 Let he who is without a pirated piece of software or mp3 cast the first stone. Let he who is without a pirated piece of software or mp3 cast the first stone.

]]> By: » Scraper Sites and SE Ambiguity: What is Your Site’s Reading Level? - Stuntdubl - SEO Consultant http://www.toprankblog.com/2005/12/content-thieves/#comment-161 » Scraper Sites and SE Ambiguity: What is Your Site’s Reading Level? - Stuntdubl - SEO Consultant Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:52:22 +0000 http://www.toprankblog.com/?p=739#comment-161 [...] Content thieves - by Lee Odden [...] [...] Content thieves – by Lee Odden [...]

]]> By: Casey Weed http://www.toprankblog.com/2005/12/content-thieves/#comment-119 Casey Weed Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:40:22 +0000 http://www.toprankblog.com/?p=739#comment-119 Slimey, slimey, slimey. Lee, I know how you feel... I've caught two people in the course of the last year blatantly ripping static content from my sites. In neither case did they take down what they stole. In the SEO world you write a lot of optimized content yourself as you're starting out... so that really ticks you off. Then you figure out how time consuming it is and you have other people do it for you- people you pay to have it done- and *that* ticks you off even worse! The thieves like to kid themselves that it's not something 'real' that they're stealing, but the truth of the matter is that it's money... just as if they'd broken into a cash register at night while the store owners were out. The saddest thing I've learned that you have to weigh carefully any possible legal action. In both my Content Theft Cases the culprits were not viable to pursue for action... both in another country and, for me, fiscally unfeasable for me to make a little legal mayhem. Get revenge where you can, however... I backordered both domains and now own one of them:) Best $18.95 I ever spent... <a href="http://www.caseyweed.com" rel="nofollow">Casey Weed- SEO Austin, Texas</a> Slimey, slimey, slimey.

Lee, I know how you feel… I’ve caught two people in the course of the last year blatantly ripping static content from my sites. In neither case did they take down what they stole.

In the SEO world you write a lot of optimized content yourself as you’re starting out… so that really ticks you off. Then you figure out how time consuming it is and you have other people do it for you- people you pay to have it done- and *that* ticks you off even worse!

The thieves like to kid themselves that it’s not something ‘real’ that they’re stealing, but the truth of the matter is that it’s money… just as if they’d broken into a cash register at night while the store owners were out.

The saddest thing I’ve learned that you have to weigh carefully any possible legal action. In both my Content Theft Cases the culprits were not viable to pursue for action… both in another country and, for me, fiscally unfeasable for me to make a little legal mayhem.

Get revenge where you can, however… I backordered both domains and now own one of them:) Best $18.95 I ever spent…

Casey Weed- SEO Austin, Texas

]]> By: Lee Odden http://www.toprankblog.com/2005/12/content-thieves/#comment-113 Lee Odden Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:28:29 +0000 http://www.toprankblog.com/?p=739#comment-113 Wow Garrick, that was fast! Actually, the situation I'm writing about here involves static HTML pages taken from a non-blog website (www.toprankresults.com) and being copied exactly to someone else's domain. Wow Garrick, that was fast!

Actually, the situation I’m writing about here involves static HTML pages taken from a non-blog website (www.toprankresults.com) and being copied exactly to someone else’s domain.

]]> By: Garrick Van Buren http://www.toprankblog.com/2005/12/content-thieves/#comment-112 Garrick Van Buren Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:25:42 +0000 http://www.toprankblog.com/?p=739#comment-112 This is definitely one of this issues with offering RSS feeds. Whether it's a spam-blog or a feed-based directory. Anyone can take the feed, reformat it, and present it in a way that makes sense to them. This is definitely one of this issues with offering RSS feeds. Whether it’s a spam-blog or a feed-based directory. Anyone can take the feed, reformat it, and present it in a way that makes sense to them.

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