How You Can NOT Stop Dirty Feed Scrapers In 3 Easy Steps
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I did copy this part of my own posting at Jaimie’s Sirovich blog so I will not be blamed for stealing 
so you can read the whole story there if you like at:
http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/seo/how-you-can-stop-dirty-feed-scrapers-in-3-easy-steps-p186.html#comment-7553
and make your own mind. Jaimie “asked” me to post here this so I did. I changed the title to what I think it’s should be and I hope that Jaimie won’t mind.
Technorati Tags: SEO
January 4th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Wow,
I didn’t think that this could go this far. Fisrt of all Happy new year to every one!
Let me tell you one thing. By selecting some feeds for a blog it’s because they worth it.
Now, by reading some of the posts here I see that only “Mark Brandon” has got the real point.
I won’t let you know about the circulation that has my RSS feed and how many people are using it on their web sites.
Perhaps you know about SEO but it doesn’t seems that you know about
RSS that much. (I don’t say that to hurt your feelings — perhaps you do
know what RSS is and how fast several sites can start using your feed
in their pages).
All I’m saying is that the same posts from my site are printed also
on thousand other sites (sites that do not belong to me). You see I
re-publish my blog using Feed burner…
So people who happened to find these posts in all those sites are end up to the source. AND THAT’S YOUR SITE.
So Jaimie make a formal request to the web site’s contact form to
remove your content and this will be done within 24 hours of your
request. You don’t need to write .htaccess files and try to figure out
my methods or mark my software.
Cause Jaimie you made some replies here but you still do not say anywhere that you want your RSS feed to be removed.
By reading this:
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” I didn’t actually apply these changes yet
I wanted to see if you were doing it semi-manually or automatically. I
thought it would be pretty funny if you posted this post on your
scraper blog.
No hard feelings.”
And by reading this:
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“Done! Now this cheesy spammer selling cheesy black hat products (mind
you, they wouldn’t even work), can’t steal my content anymore. Good
riddance”
Makes me Wonder which one is true… You tried to block me and you
failed? You Trying to be smart on programming skills that didn’t work?
Or maybe you just wanted to point out that my software doesn’t work?
Either way I don’t realy care for opinions of people that are NOT my customers.
How can you judge something that you haven’t even try? (maybe you will
say… because it’s a black hat tool. Then just say that. And not that
the software doesn’t work cause you are not one of my customers and
since I do not give my software for free then you haven’t try it and
for sure you can’t express such an opinion).
Now about “phaithful” he says:
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“Wow, TBP for a splogger he sure is defensive. If you’re going to
succeed at ripping off content… you’ve got to have thicker skin than
that.”
I think that the above (and below) answers to Jaimie does answer to your posting also phaithful.
And about that:
“I can’t believe Jimmy Saunders is promoting cloaking and doorway
generator software while syndicating content from Matt Cutts. Aren’t
you mixing the marketing message there? Don’t you have something better
to do with your life than waste it away promoting dated black hat
software that won’t ever work?”
How can you make such an assumption(that software don’t work) my friend. You are not even a customer of mine…
As I said I only use RSS feeds from web sites that I respect and
because they worth it to be published. (and re-published). Now about
the part of what I do with my life… as you said it’s my life and not
yours. So let’s not start judging each other’s life here. Who are you
to judge me? I’m not suggesting to you to change life style or purpose
to life. If you are happy with your life… well I’m happy with mine too.
So thanks but I will pass… Insult passed as if unnoticed…
Mutt is a person that I respect and I’m sure that he is aware of my
site. I could publish only Black Hat posts but I think that people and
especially my customers that I respect also very much has the right to
know all sides and choose.
They can choose between a software that do things automatically and
might work or not work (there is a 30 days Money back guarantee for
that) and to know all the risks (by reading Mutt’s content) and they
also can choose to be scammed by “White” Hat SEO’s wanna be, that sell
to them High rankings and traffic and Links from link farms.
I don’t say that to offend here anybody (in this blog) but I’m sure
that you are all aware of people that does that and sell such SEO
services for a few (or more) bucks. At least I sell a software that
works (and there is not even one negative complain from a “REAL”
customer that says otherwise for the last almost 2 years that I sell
this software online). And there are customers that use it in a “let’s
say nice way” and there are customers that do spam.
The knifes can be used to cook or can be misused. Ex. for a kill. The guns also and so on…
Doorway and cloaking software is not welcome by many because it
automates and does things in seconds that a team of 100 SEO’s can do
manually in many hours of hard work.
My software (especially the new version) can optimize a page in a
blink of an eye. And it can do it in many different languages including
japanese, Korean, etc. (about 20 languages). It is also an income tool
cause it shows Adsense, Amazon, Clickbank, Ebay auction products that
match the main keyword or keyword phrase on each page. A user of my
software doesn’t only buy it to redirect his traffic (which is
optional) but also to sell advertisement on their pages or promote
affiliate products, without redirecting at all.
Things that can never be done by one person or even a team by hand.
My software can create a complete web site from scratch, in seconds.
All pages 100% optimized.
And believe me it takes good SEO and marketing knowledge to write a
tool that automates SEO and marketing work. (even if it’s black and
white and grey and other colors of SEO used in this software). I’m sure
that many of you has other opinion about Doorway and cloaking software.
I respect every one’s opinion. But this is not the issue here.
I don’t sell Black Hat SEO services to my customers and most of all
I don’t lie to them. I sell a software that does what it says. It is a
100% LEGAL software.
Don’t take this the wrong way. I don’t want to say that I’m the best in what I do. Maybe I’m and maybe I’m not.
I let the others judge my work (those who are familiar with it, ex.
my customers and not “thin skin” people who just post insults just to
take a link back to their sites from this blog and play smart giving
directions in life…) and time will tell…
Any way the one thing that must come out of this post is that I use
RSS feeds from sites that knows what they write about and I mention the
source and do not use this RSS feeds in an external splog to drive
traffic to my site but I use it inside my own web site even if this
gives the picture of splog.
From my side of view I do not steal an RSS feed that is publicly
given. I give a link to the source so thousand other people can visit
the source (which benefits the source site) and “yes”… I use nofollow
in the links. But this has to do with pagerank and spiders.
Each RSS feed may have hundrends of links back to the source web
site. It is something that it can’t be controlled and you all know that.
I don’t think that anybody here needs SEO 101 lessons. But you all
know what can happened to a web site with 50 or 100 or more links in
one page. At least it will be “marked” as a link farm web site. And
this is the reason for using the nofollow to the source web sites.
One more thing I would like to post here. In a couple of months
(maybe sooner) I will start a SEO contest. I would like to see many of
you there.
When the time comes, I will (if I’m still welcome) post here the details.
I will have the opportunity to gain SEO knowledge from people and their favorite SEO tools or work.
Also I will have the opportunity to see for my self that you are
right, that my software doesn’t really work as Jaimie and phaithful
says and strongly supports. I don’t thing that you guys wouldn’t like
to be the first to join this contest to prove your point? Right? (that
my software doesn’t work?)…
No hard feelings Jaimie.
It will be a black and white and grey and pink and many other color SEO contest, open for everybody to join.
And Jaimie thanks for posting my answers here. Perhaps I do have
some misspelling but I was in a hurry (I’m in the middle of updating my
web site for the new version of my software and I can’t join this warm
company here for a while until I finish the updates).
Hope to see everybody in the SEO contest though.