My Blog clone was being made!

| August 15, 2008 | 5 Comments
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This post is about what the title says. Blogsolute’s clone was made. Recently, when, I opened admin panel of my blog, there were numerous comments waiting for approval. I was bit surprised to see lots of trackbacks. When I examined it carefully- they were from the same URL ( http://myknow.wordpress.com )

Blog Online looked very similar or you can say xerox copy of Blogsolute with same post title, categories, tags, each and everything. It was a word to word copy, I was very tensed about it since it took me about 12 months to write and make those posts.

What Action did I take?

First of all, I warned him by commenting on his post. It was not possible for me to comment on each and every stuff. So, wherever I commented he added a backlinkbut in this case, whole blog was a copy. I left a question on various forums and groups for suggestions and one of my group mate Ameo suggested to report that blog as spam on after signing in on WordPress.com

What happened to it then?

Yes, I have used a word was in post, so that blog is now inactive;you can check it.

Withing few seconds, I received a reply from WordPress.com which is as follows-

I have suspended that blog for breaking several of our rules regarding duplicate content, advertising and affiliate links.
For the record our DMCA information for copyright claims is here:
http://automattic.com/dmca/
Kind regards,
Alex

Thanks, Ameo and Alex who helped in banning that blog. Copying is really bad so ,beware of it.

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Rohit Langde is editor-in-chief and owner of Blogsolute. He is Born-Geek and Technology Enthusiast. Being a blogger, he is also Mechanical Engineer who believes in simple Living. You can

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  1. Nihar says:
    August 15, 2008 at 12:09 pm

    Hi Rahul,

    It might have been very scary for you. but happy to see that wordpress quickly pitched in and removed that blog.

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  2. Pavan Kumar says:
    August 16, 2008 at 9:04 am

    Great that your clone was deleted… congrats… I too have seen such manual scrappers who steal my content… you can even report to adsense and also to google about that….

    Reply
  3. Rohit says:
    August 17, 2008 at 5:30 am

    How can Google or Adsense help out Pavan?
    That blog was hosted on wordpress.com so, no Advertisements.

    Reply
  4. Rockstar Sid says:
    August 18, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    hehe… funny.. I seen the cached webpage and it is copied :)

    Reply
  5. Abhinav Sood says:
    October 31, 2008 at 5:28 am

    I am sure its not the single blog that has been scraping content off your blog. Search for the first few lines of your posts on Google and you’ll see many scraper blogs. I get notified by the pingbacks to my blog about some scraper blogs where whole of my posts or a part of them is used in someone else’s name.

    Getting the blog banned is only one way to prevent copyright violations. I read this post on Mohit Aneja’s blog which explains how to copyright and protect the content of your blog.

    Hope it helps you :)
    Regards.

    Reply

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