Blog Pirates, Content Thieves, And Other Ne’er-do-wells: They Don’t Make Me Cry
(Pilgrim) I personally gave up trying to fight the blog pirates. Even if you’re successful in getting one to stop, another pops-up within days (probably by the same guys).
Good idea. Give up.
No, really. I mean it. Just give up. There are more of us than there are of them and the best way to combat them is to educate more of us.
Call them blog pirates, content thieves, or just plain old-fashioned SOBs, they’re evil and they’re dastardly. It is right and good to hate them. Or, at least, to hate what they do. But should we really waste our precious time trying to fight them?
I mean, every minute you take away from chasing a content thief, that’s one minute you take away from marketing and expanding your business. One friend of mine fights them off by stealing their SEO positions. He is rather effective in doing this and only employs the black hat technique as a way to fight fire with fire. He usually wins. The thieves relent and he gets his content back. That’s because he is a better SEO practitioner than they are.
If we all study and learn successful SEO techniques then we can beat the content thieves simply by besting them at their own game. I’m not suggesting we should use my friend’s tactics, but a little knowledge goes a long, long way. For instance, the search engines usually index the first occurrence of content and other occurrences are counted as duplicate content. What isn’t counted as duplicate content can be reported to the offender’s ISP or, in many cases, the search engines themselves. Granted, this activity takes up a little bit of time, but it takes up a lot less time than worrying about the little snits. Plus, it takes a lot of content and a lot of websites to make any real money on AdSense. I’m not all that concerned about a handful of people making pennies each month off of content that earns me hundreds or even thousands in monthly income.
Besides, as I said before, there are more of us than there are them. So why should I cry over a few bad apples?
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[...] I addressed the (content theft) issue briefly and I do believe we can waste a lot of time chasing down the ne’er-do-wells. [...]
lol. Personally I like your friend’s way.
I disagree that absolute surrender is the answer. To me, one has to find balance. It should never taken more than fifteen minutes to handle a case of plagiarism, if you have a strategy in effect, so the time and effort drain is minimal.
Obsessing of stopping every single case is probably a waste, but there are many times the infringement is worth taking a few minutes to stop.
But, then again, everyone has to develop their own strategy.