How to Stop the Scrapers?

According to Wikipedia, 'Blog scraping' is the process of scanning through a large number of blogs, usually daily, searching for and copying content. This process is conducted through automated software.

The software and the individuals who run the software are sometimes referred to as blog scrapers. Scraping is copying a blog that is not owned by the individual initiating the scraping process. If the material is copyrighted it is considered copyright infringement, unless there is a license relaxing the copyright. The scraped content is often used on spam blogs or splogs.

I admit to using sources from other websites as back up content for my own, but I always cite my sources and provide links back to them. The problem is these bastard 'sploggers' such as the person over at wallpapers-e.com who has been constantly stealing my copyrighted photographs from one of my other blogs. What do we do about them?

Submitting a DMCA report to Google seems like our only option. What will Google do in such an event? remove the site from their lists? The offending website will still exist!

So frustrating! This is my 2nd post on this issue and I very, very pissed off to see a site stealing content from people which is getting a higher Google Pagerank and Alexa ranking than the very sites it steals from!

If you have any experiences with this type of issue, I would love to hear from you!

Muzzerino.

Sigh.

Home Business, Affiliate Schemes, WTF?

Ok, we all want to get rich and we all need money. I have been making a very small amount from this site and others using adsense and the odd time I have dabbled into Clickbank and others while trying to get something a little more lucrative.

What I have found, every time I click on an add proclaiming "home business!" "earn your monthly income in a year!" always seem to be the same. A bloody Pyramid Scheme!

OK, I know they are not all like that, but it certainly seems that most of them get you to sign up, then you get paid for more people who sign up using your affiliate ID link. This is basically a Pyramid Scheme and although a lot of other affiliate schemes do sell other items, a great many of them in my research seem to fall back onto the pyramid model as a staple income.

I have never made a cent from Affiliate schemes but to be honest, I spend more time on trying to maximise my adsense revenue from this blog amongst others. I suppose I feel that if I make a site to gain traffic, then only to send that traffic off in search of an affiliate sale, then I myself am somehow selling out, but then I never had a head for business I guess....

I like adsense because all the ads are relevant to my site content. But I have also added Clickbank links to some pages which are relevant to the article and yet, even though I have plenty of hops and clickthroughs. I get so cash.

Has anyone else out there had any luck with this? (add to the comments!)

If you can recommend a decent affiliate scheme I'd love to know. I get plenty of traffic to this site so if I get no responses or very few, I will consider the matter a waste of time and maybe so should you.

Muzzerino.

7 Guaranteed Ways to Increase your AdSense Revenue

#7 Use Bigger sizes. Bigger ads = Bigger dollars. Who cares if they completely take over your site. (OK maybe your readers do.)

#6 Ad MORE units. This one is a no brainier, but the more ads you have on a page, the more ad revenue you will make. Sure, there is a law of diminishing returns, but that will only affect each ad unit, not the overall revenue.

#5 is Change your Colors. This one is easy to do and will help your $, but most people are just too lazy and use the default colors. (me too:)

#4 Jam the Ads in key spots. Sure you should have content at the top of the post, but the bloggers who jam AdSense units right at the top of the post make more money than you do…

#3 Stuff keywords everywhere. It is the spam blogs that generate the bulk of Google’s long tail revenue, you know the sites, they contain virtually no real information, just a bunch of nonsensical keywords related to what you are really looking for. Do a search on Google for ‘make money online’ and take a look at some of those results. Have a look at this site in the top 10… Make Money Online Everything above the fold is an advertising link in some way, and has the words ‘make money’ in almost every sentence on the page. Also try the ‘Make money at home’ and click on the 2nd result… MMAH. Can you stuff anymore keywords on that page!!

#2 Be nice to Google. Bitch slapping them like I do, does NOT help your revenue in any way, trust me…

#1 Write crappier content. There is a direct inverse relationship to your effective CPM on AdSense and how good your content is. If users really love what you write, they tend not to click away to something else. If you write really low quality stuff, the readers who are looking for something useful will click on your AdSense away to something that they were actually looking for…

Written by Chad at AdvertiseSpace.com

Thanks Chad for saying that we can steal this post!

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