Emila Yusof (Emilatopia)

When Trinity had this problem, it never occurred to me that the same thing will happen to me. I mean, I’ve got pinged back by unknown blogs and thought who are these people who are so kind to link back to me? I just approved the pings and they went into my comment box. Later, when Bobby informed me that his blog posts are being duplicated and told me that it might happened to me as well, I startled. But still I didn’t do anything about it. When he put up A gift to content thieves, then I realised I am, too, a victim of spamming blog (or splog). This splog thing is unfamiliar to me. So I visited those splogs which put up ‘excerpts’ of my posts. I left them comments but they are ignored, still awaiting moderations. I e-mailed one of the splog owner, also waiting for the reply. I don’t think they will ever reply. One of the blog has this disclaimer:

Please note, all content posted on this blog remains the property of its writer/s.

We did not and will not write any original content, all the content displayed has been pulled from public RSS feeds and is there to mearly spread my fellow bloggers work and provide a PageRank giving link back to the work.

If you object to me using any of the above methods to further the excellent information these, and many other bloggers create, please feel free to email me with your reasoning.

We are not here to steal content, this is mearly a social experiment.

Thanks for your time.

Lol, I’m convinced with his words but hello, I have no more PageRank to begin with. Linking to me will certainly not going to do me any good in PageRanking. ‘Thank you’ for the so-called ‘giving the link back to work’ but no thank you, your link is NOT worth it!

Anyway, after Bobby‘s recommendation to read Lorelle’s great tips on how to stop content theft, I downloaded two plugins: AntiLeech Splog Stopper by Owen Winkler and Digital Fingerprints by Maxpower.ca. I activated them. I even went to my control panel and blocked those same IPs from there. I took Bobby’s advice to activate Akismet as well. So far so good but I haven’t put up any post after installing the plugins.

This post will be the guinea pig, err I mean guinea post.