My Life With IT

I’m disturbed. I’ve been reading Blogigs for quite some time and this question on asking if splogs will harm our blogs. I’ve been the target of such especially my posts about Bali got me thinking. I think I’ve approved a few as a trackback.

I must say, I went to those sites and was attacked by Adsense and Kontera and other money making schemes. Basically, the sites provide link to the original source and some excerpts. In addition, they contain various topics and are not focused in any topic. I’m starting to wonder if I should mark them as spam. Maybe I should.

Here’s why sploggers splog, one theory is that Google is not the target. However, isn’t Google the most used search engine? As someone who had 2 whole posts plagiarised, I started using Creative Commons a.k.a. CC. However, it seems that CC was a double-edged sword in 2005.

Sploggers made use of its vulnerability at that time to plug more clicks. Another way to check if your posts have been boldly copied and posted elsewhere without linking back to you would be using Copyscape or writing your own copyrights such as using a certain number of words and must always link back to your source.

Besides blogs being plagiarised, RSS feeds are also targets. The creative ways of sploggers. If you’re in control of your RSS feeds, make use of adding footer. For Wordpress (own hosted) users, you can make use of plugins. Here’s one by Ankesh Kothari called Feed Footer. Another plugin would be RSS Signature formerly known as Sig 2 Feeder.

What are the ways you have tried to protect your blog and has there be an increase or decrease on the attacks?