Comments on: RSS Feed Scraper

By: LGR

LGR — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:32:25 +0000

Looks like you got it working. Let’s see how long it takes for them to remove that content now.

By: The Happy Rock

The Happy Rock — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:20:56 +0000

Not having any luck. Is there any reason this wouldn’t work.

The scraper site is investingright dot com, and it still has the regular picture.

At what level does the images directory go? at the www root?

And the .htaccess file can live at the uploads top directory, even though all the images are stored in subdirectories?

Thanks for the help

By: The Happy Rock

The Happy Rock — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:10:53 +0000

Thanks for this. I had wanted to find a way to get back at a scraper that has been plaguing me, but don’t have the savy yet.

I copied your solution word for word, and the image. If that isn’t ok, just let me know.

I will see if this works in the morning.

The things that really bugs me is the Google indexes the scraper quicker than me, so he always shows up first in Google for about a week or two. Grrr….

By: LGR

LGR — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:45:15 +0000

Does the partial feed encourage people to visit your blog though? I avoid partial feeds. One of the biggest reasons I use an RSS reader is to save time by reading posts all there. The two partial feeds I have subscribed have to really be good to get me to visit. Just wondering.

By: Binh Nguyen

Binh Nguyen — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:36:11 +0000

I’m sorry to hear your bad experience. Currently my blog is new so it’s not yet an issue. But for me I’m avoiding this by using Post Teaser and strip off my RSS content to 100 words/post only. Regardless of reading through FeedBurner, or scraper site, it’s our blog loosing the bandwidth and ad revenue, so better off redirecting our reader to our own website.