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Autobloggers Are Giving Me Free Backlinks!

by The Expert
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I came across an autoblog that was composed of a wordpress site that grabbed content from other sites, posted it as it's own, and then put a link back to the original source.

Weird thing is that the "content" that was swiped was actually the stuff I put in my description tag in All-In-On-SEO.

Free links for me baby!
#autobloggers #backlinks #free #giving
  • Profile picture of the author xxxJamesxxx
    Yeah cool ain't it

    Happens to me all the time

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  • Profile picture of the author jazbo
    Yes its a bonus after the thieving!
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    • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
      Originally Posted by jazbo View Post

      Yes its a bonus after the thieving!
      Wait a minute ... lets not jump the gun.

      If the OP has a Terms of Use prohibiting re-syndication of his content - then so be it - but if they have no TOS and still have the RSS feeds off their wp blog enabled ... why is it thieving? I suspect they dont dictate the terms of the use of their rss syndicated content.

      If they did have an issue with it then why leave rss working? They are also still attributing back to the source - with a link - a typical accepted practice in re syndication.
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  • Profile picture of the author AllanCollins
    I think that is one of the best benefits of article marketing. For example, WP Robot, an autoblogging wordpress plugin, gets articles from articlesbase dot com. I don't believe that it strips out links either in the content or the resource box.

    Of course, this brings up a good question: are those backlinks still valuable even if they are on a duplicate content page?
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    • Profile picture of the author WareTime
      My gut is that they are not worth much. Very little personal experience since I hardly use rss. I make the spammers work slightly harder if they want to scrape me.
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  • Profile picture of the author tedzmaniac
    i never like such autoblog
    because i like creating content for my blog
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  • Profile picture of the author misterkailo
    LOL those links in junk sites have no juice.
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  • Profile picture of the author ttomp13
    Quality over Quantity... enough said.

    Eventually, some of these scraper sites will develop PR.
    They're not all bad, especially if there's little to no competition in your niche.
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  • Profile picture of the author MarketingWiseGuy
    Just a quick tip, you can limit the amount of info autoblogs can steal from you by switching your RSS feed to excerpt only or limiting the amount of content it displays.
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    • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
      Originally Posted by MarketingWiseGuy View Post

      Just a quick tip, you can limit the amount of info autoblogs can steal from you by switching your RSS feed to excerpt only or limiting the amount of content it displays.
      well sorta true ....

      WizardRSS | Full Text RSS Feeds

      There are others and yahoo pipes, when done right is masterful at grabbing your entire posts. Your partial rss feed is just giving it the link it needs to go scrape your entire page ...

      best thing to do is use feedburner and put your adsense ads in it. Fornicates it for the scrapers- unless they dont mind your adsense blocks all over their blogs.
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      • Profile picture of the author The Expert
        They didn't pull the content from my RSS feed. They pulled it from the html description tag on the post itself. I write them custom and separate from the main body content.
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        • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
          Originally Posted by The Expert View Post

          They didn't pull the content from my RSS feed. They pulled it from the html description tag on the post itself. I write them custom and separate from the main body content.
          The rss feed gives the software the link it needs - back to the html page/wp page to scrape between the html codes for the content.
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