The site realne.ws is stealing content wholesale from these RE.net weblogs:
- BloodhoundBlog
- Real Estate Webmaster World
- Housing doom
- Sellsius
- Inman News
- Behind The Walls
- Future of Real Estate Marketing
- Finding Senior Housing
- Rental survival Guide
- Rain City Guide
- Curbed San Francisco
- First Time Home Buyers
- Zillow
- Center For REALTOR Technology Blog
- Trulia
- The Move Blog
- The Real Estate Guide
- Living with Roomates
I’ve complained to Google, but that can be like pushing a rope. I’m not able to unearth any contact information on the owners of the site.
Technorati Tags: blogging, real estate, real estate marketing
Drew Nichols says:
Greg, I got a kick out of this post showing up on the home page of that site.
Simple solution… file a DMCA complaint with their web host: colo4dallas. I verified this with traceroute.
March 17, 2007 — 8:14 am
Greg Swann says:
Excellent. Thank you.
March 17, 2007 — 8:26 am
Derek Burress says:
In your wordpress settings is a button about syndication. I started fighting back by changing it from the full preview to the partial preview. That way only like the first paragraph shows up and if people really are interested in reading my article, they can click the header and come to my site.
March 17, 2007 — 8:43 am
Greg Swann says:
Anthony Barba sent me a screenshot, god bless him:
March 17, 2007 — 8:54 am
Anthony Barba says:
If you do speak to Google give them the following to help identify the culprits,
* google_ad_client = “ca-pub-5420456108545544”
* google-analytics id UA-617942-3
Larger question: How much money is Google making on these type of sites? Is Google’s AdSense supplying the true motivation?
March 17, 2007 — 8:57 am
Greg Swann says:
> Larger question: How much money is Google making on these type of sites? Is Google’s AdSense supplying the true motivation?
Indeed. Google’s defense is, “We didn’t know the gun was loaded.” It takes months to get a response out of them, but a plaintiff’s attorney could use every one of those complaints to show that Google had constructive knowledge of abuse and continued to profit from it.
March 17, 2007 — 9:01 am
Dan Green says:
Should I feel insulted that The Mortgage Reports didn’t make the cut?
Conflicted in Chicago,
Dan
March 17, 2007 — 9:15 am
Greg Swann says:
> Should I feel insulted that The Mortgage Reports didn’t make the cut?
Just think about when all your Bring the Blog sprogs start to get splogged! When there’s constabulary work to be done, the constable’s lot is a terrible one…
March 17, 2007 — 9:34 am
Anthony Barba says:
Charlie Munger correctly asserts in his infamous 24 Standard Causes of Human Misjudgment speech to Harvard Law School:
“If you carry bushel baskets full of money through the ghetto, and made it easy to steal, that would be a considerable human sin, because you’d be causing a lot of bad behavior, and the bad behavior would spread.”
March 17, 2007 — 9:35 am
David G from Zillow.com says:
These splogs are frustrating. Funny thing is that their “sources” page is actually a great resource – http://www.realne.ws/cms/?q=aggregator/sources.
If they just published that, front and center on the home page, it could become a popular destination and add value.
The Sellsius team seem to have the best solution; they use a partial feed but their posts are also tagged with “Hi there! Thanks for subscribing to our feed. If you’re hungry for more, please click the headline. Thanks!”
You could also contact the publisher and ask them to yank your feed:
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: REALNE.WS
Created on: 08-Feb-07
Expires on: 08-Feb-09
Last Updated on: 10-Feb-07
Administrative Contact:
POTF Networking, Admin admin@potf.net
LaSalle
Chicago, Illinois 60610
United States
7735807354
Technical Contact:
POTF Networking, Admin admin@potf.net
LaSalle
Chicago, Illinois 60610
United States
7735807354
March 17, 2007 — 11:05 am
jf.sellsius says:
We did what Derek did—we abbreviated our feed so they only get a short tease—unfair to feedreading subscribers unfortunately.
And as Drew suggests, we have used DMCA.
We have also used the Sellsius Stop Splog method—-look up the domain owner & rouse him at midnight and splain it to him nicely. Surprisingly effective.
March 17, 2007 — 11:56 am
Athol Kay says:
Complained to Google and Godaddy.
I’m seriously starting to consider going the Sellsius route and shortening the feed. RSS isn’t secure and I though the purpose of RSS was to get visitors to return to the site anyway. Not ideal, but…. :-/
March 17, 2007 — 8:07 pm
apella says:
I have done the short post on a couple of my blogs to send the traffic to the main post place. I guess your made in the blog world when you are a source, have something to shoot for now.
March 18, 2007 — 12:04 am