Why the SOA Guru Web Site SUCKS!
It came to my attention recently that a site called SOA Guru have been scraping my blog and knocking off every single post and publishing under the name of their Admin user. What really annoys me is not that they are earning money off my work but more so that they are taking credit for it. If you have a story about this site then please blog it and make sure you report them to Google. I wonder if they will re-blog this post, I hope so.
UPDATE: Their re-post of this post is showing a link back here but it’s been generated by me to combat the scraping.
UPDATE: After making contact via email I received a response explaining that my material would be removed from their site and that appears to have taken place.
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looks like they did:
http://www.soaguru.com/why-the-soa-guru-web-site-sucks
What a clever chap that admin is….
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hilarious!
especially when reading it on their website…
ROFLMAO
I’d suggest - try to put increasingly derogatory stuff about them and see when they stop copying it across!
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They actually are giving you credit and linking to your site. This may be good for you as the only way I found your blog is because SOAGuru’s repost of your article showed up my google alert and pointed me to your site. I guess SOAGuru’s page rank is higher than yours.
If you offer RSS feeds then you’ll probably get scraped and indexed and reposted by many blog aggregators. If you don’t like this then turn off your RSS feed (or password protect it).
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Brian
It looks like they link back but it’s not the case. The trackback to my site is being produced by me to combat them scraping so I do get some value out of the experience.
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1. Figure out the identity of the IP address they use to spider your site or feed.
2. Configure your site to serve, um, “different” content to that IP.
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