Your thoughts about full article feeds on other sites?

Dustin07 · 11-28-2006, 09:03 AM

I'm not sure I like it, I remember Rob bringing it up earlier as well. (Rob, can you remind me who the culprit was that was using your articles?)

As you can see, a lot of my posts, are being used on a site called searchmarketingbasics.com/blog (searchmarketingbasics.com/blog/?p=522). While this does give me some links and exposure, he's reusing my content 100%. I'm worried about losing value for duplicate content. It's not exactly plagiarism, IMO, since he is linking to me and giving me credit... but he's definitely not putting any work in!

what are your thoughts?

chicgeek · 11-28-2006, 09:06 AM

Acceptable with permission.
Scum without.

Dustin07 · 11-28-2006, 09:15 AM

Yeah I'm not liking it.

Julie · 11-28-2006, 11:01 AM

Yea, someone did that to the v7 tech blog when it first got started up. Just write a nasty post about plagerism and ripping other people's stuff. hehe.

I agree that it is scummy to do if you don't have permission. It's copyright infringement, IMO, to steal someone's entire creative work........

Dustin07 · 11-28-2006, 11:05 AM

Quote:

Just write a nasty post about plagerism and ripping other people's stuff. hehe.

I was going to hold back at first, wanted to check out the site and make sure there wasn't no potential in somehow working with them... but I'm confused at what they're even trying to get accomplished. The code is riddled with errors and homepage is... uh.. well I think I'll write the post on unique content today...

Dustin07 · 11-28-2006, 11:05 AM

Oh yeah, and it's pinging me FAST now. I noticed less than a minute after I made today's post, it was already on their site. I think it's grabbing certain categories from my blog.