Yes, it’s Christmas and yes I am on a rant! Before I go there let me just say, today was lots of fun, just got back to our hotel room. For those of you don’t follow me on twitter – I’m in Kentucky (long way from TX home) with the fam. We are staying in a fun little hotel not too far from the house where all the festivities are.
So, I just got back and decided to turn on good ‘ol tweetdeck to see if there were any fun Gen Y posts I may have missed today. And to my excitement someone had tweeted a link to Gen Y: When You Wake Up Unemployed. This has a been a fairly popular post of mine around the interwebz but I still get excited to see links to my work. So of course I click through to the link and to my amazement it did not go to MY website. So … let me get this straight, a blog post that I wrote is published IN FULL on another website without my permission. NOT COOL! Not cool at all man. Come to find out several popular posts are being “syndicated” onto this blog, and this guy is republishing full content. My initial thought was I was going to contact the original authors of the “posts” on this guy’s blog to let them know their feed was being scrapped. BUT there were over 20 posts today on Christmas Day. I don’t really want to link to the website from here and drive traffic to him – but I also want people to know about this ridiculous shady activity. I’ve already contacted him, telling him to take my post down. I hope that there is an easy way for the other bloggers who’s content is being scrapped to find out about this dude.
So there’s the end of my rant! Thanks for listenin’ y’all!
OMG..I saw your tweet about this. Absolutely ridiculous. I hope he takes it down and you get everything straightened out.
Is there any legislation for blog plagiarism? I would sue him it was my content he stole. I hope everything get straightened out asap.
I have had several of my posts stolen from me and reprinted on other blogs. The best suggestion I have would be to contact the blogger directly and if he doesn’t comply then contact blogger. But ultimately there is not much you can do.
I second Bret – tackling this guy through the blogging platform is probably the strategy most likely to get results. Good luck!
If contacting his host, ETC, doesn’t work…. start putting links to your others posts with anchor texts you want to rank for (you should be doing that anyway)… then when people steal your content (and it will happen, if that dude stops, someone else will start) then at least they’ll be giving you some backlinks…
I cannot believe this!! SOOOO RUDE!!! Where are the cyber-cops when you need them ;-)