Duct Tape Marketing Weblog :: Blog Content Rip-Off Is Stealing

Quote from Duct Tape Marketing :: “These sites have no user value as they are often written by robots and don’t make much sense to the human eye. They do however, generate some cheap search engine traffic and AdSense clickthroughs for the owners.

I guess these folks figure that since you publish an RSS feed, it’s not really stealing. These are the same people that would reason, ‘since you left your door unlocked I thought it was okay to take your new big screen.’”

Thoughts :: John has some great thoughts on how to deal with blog content theft, that basically amount to two things. 1- Imitation is the highest form of flattery. 2- When it gets out of hand, just ask them to stop.

I pretty much have the same approach… but sometimes I wonder if the free information I give is in vain. Because anyone who reads this blog knows that there isn’t an inherent search engine benefit in reprinting another blog verbatim. You’d get more of the desired effect from republishing their headlines only…

Or you could do something brand new and original like… quote other blogs and add your own commentary with a link back to the original posts…. or continue the conversation and trackback… or do a collection of snippets from other blogs with the links intact…

But. I guess that would be too much like work.

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Tags: free traffic :: blog promotion :: Content Theft :: plagiarism :: copyright infringement