A Question for All AutoBloggers

by yourreviewer

Posted: 15 years ago 7 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

For all those who are autoblogging using Yahoo Pipes, Datafeeds and combining different RSS feeds, have you had any problems with folks contacting you on their content being on your site without their permission? My friend tried autoblogging and basically it came up as snippets of article summaries on his blog. He received a nasty email from a content owner even though it was a 100 word snippet with a link to his blog.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

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- yourreviewer 15 years ago
  
  Thanks for the suggestion. I think that's what he did. I have never really tried Autoblogging but when I heard from my buddy, it just made me wonder if I should dabble in autoblogging as well. Just wondering legally, can anyone sue you for use snippets even though you have links pointing to the source?
  
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- yourreviewer 15 years ago
  
  Thanks Simms. I will look around to find out if there are any legal concerns regarding this matter.
  
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  RWilt 15 years ago
  
  My take on it is that they (in most cases) knowingly added their feed so they want people to find it.
  
  I do not include a link to the source in the post, but I do usually add a link to their blog elsewhere on my site.
  
  Been autoblogging for 4 months with 2 posts added to my blog per day, only 1 person has contacted me to remove their post.
  
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  yourreviewer 15 years ago
  
  I tried my first attempt at setting up a feed for autoposting on my Wordpress blog. It comes out as a couple of lines with no reference to the source. Am I doing anything wrong?
  
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  vicone 15 years ago
  
  What plugin are you using to manage your feeds?
  
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  Kay King 15 years ago
  
  Autoblogging as we refer to it here involved using feeds which are content meant to be syndicated.
  
  There are also some programs that "autoblog" by scraping content from other sites - not a good practice.
  
  It's possible that some site owners don't know the difference between the two when they see their post "copied".
  
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timpears 15 years ago

Isn't Yahoo and the others taking the RSS feeds the site owners are providing? If they provide RSS feeds and then complain that someone is accepting it they must not know what RSS is and the point of it. I would have to ask them didn't you provide the RSS? What did you expect it to be used for if not to be used.

This is one of those, no matter what you do, someone will complain sooner or later.
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