02
May
2008
NMT Is Shutting Down Sploggers
Posted by Tom as Random
I have nothing against blogs or websites that want to highlight or excerpt something from my Neural Market Trends as long as they give me a properly cited link back to the page. By proper cited I mean writing something like, “Neural Market Trends said” or “Tom from Neural Market Trends wrote,” etc.
What makes me steaming mad is when sploggers take my entire or partial RSS feed, add a stupid link back with text like, “someone said” or “GABA said, ” or some other nonesense that makes you realize it was some sort of automated script that ripped off your content. Then they surround your content with Google Ads hoping that all this content will give them higher SEO and drive traffic to their site.
Well I started fighting back and start reporting sploggers to Google Adsense (if they have Google Ads) and its been successful. Within a day to a few days, the sploggers site is shut down if its on blogspot or the Ads are suspended. That usually takes the splogger offline.
5 Responses
Gav
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:16 am
1That’s a good idea. I’d never thought of that. I just put their domain/ip into spam blacklist. But, now I guess, report to Adsense and have their website shutdown is a better idea!
dc
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:50 pm
2tom
i just looked into adsense advertising and i don’t understand why someone doesn’t
automatically direct people to or refer people to the other web-site even if it’s not an add that he would get paid for,but just automatially as a normal pradtice.
Matbe they are desparate for content,that would make their web page more interesting.
tom some questions for you
1) do you use adsense advertising program?
2) if someone had a website(buisness or pleasure) do you think he could generate a good income from the adsense program?
3) If someone wanted to start a web page for the reason to generate adsense income
would that be a good idea?(would it ever payoff to do so with add income minus the web fee)
JUST CURIOUS TIA
Tom
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:32 pm
3@dc: I used to have adsense on NMT but it cluttered up the page and didn’t pay out too well. In the beginning a lot of high traffic sites made a good amount of money with adsense, now they all complain about the too low Click Thru Rates (CTR). I sell links and some affiliate products and make enoight money to pay for my film, development, and scanning. I’m not greedy and don’t plan on making this blog my sole base of income so its just some “mad” money.
@Gav: It works amazingly well, I shut down 2 sites as far as I can tell.
Trisha
May 7th, 2008 at 10:35 am
4This is exactly why I read your blog–I just learned something! I didn’t know I could shut their Adsense down! Thanks, Tom!
Tom
May 8th, 2008 at 5:45 am
5Trisha: Yes and it works like a charm!
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