More scraped content from here is appearing on another site. It’s just such a joy to have to track down a host and write a C&D letter just because some toolbox decides to set up an “autopost” wordpress install. That’s why, starting now, I’m including a nice little message in my RSS feeds thanks to RSS Footer.
You can’t really stop these assholes from doing it, but at least my name and website (and little message) are plastered all over each entry. So, if they scrape them now, they get not one, but 3 links back here.
For those of you playing by the rules, all you’ll see in your RSS reader is a quick message before the normal content:
“Post from: DocHoloday.com. If you’re reading this on any other site, you’re reading stolen content. Web scrapers suck.”
Die scraper die!
I’m surprised they don’t strip out the links. The whole point is just to get text for the search engines to index, right?
If you could identify the IP address of the scrapper it would be pretty easy to block them if your hosting provider lets you do mod_rewrite rules or something similar.
Just wanted to report your new “scrapers suck” header works like a charm in NewNewsWire.