Gordon Finlayson over at Download Squad posted a piece about those slime buckets that scrape hard working bloggers content and stick it inside AdSense farms - otherwise known as splogs.

Gordon might call them pirates but I prefer to say useless thieves without an original thought in their heads and I hate to break it to you Gordon but they aren’t anything really new. Even this blog in its first year has seen content treated the same way. They especially like headlines that have a sexual angle or have AdSense as part of it - like bees to honey.

The other thing that some of these guttersnipes are doing is utilizing Technorati by claiming their splogs and as a result linking back through Technorati as well. So not only are they bottom feeding off of your links and possible Google juice but they are hitching a ride on your Technorati authority.

I like the way that John Chow has dealt with RSS feed thieves with a plugin he suggests using where a copyright notice only appears in the feed but not the post. While I’m not sure if it is effective against these so-called blog pirates but it is at least worth a try I guess.

These guys are probably the same sort that would sell tickets to their grandmother’s funeral .. anything for a buck.

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