What should I do with someone who steals my links?

[neonguy528]

Little Willy in Tampa Florida steals links. His site is: URL Removed
He stole my link to get on page 1 of Google blog search. Keywords: Florida Fishing Piers. You can see it for yourself. What should I do to this guy?

[bunun]

http://internet101.cn/net/my-florida-fishing-piers-blog/

he simply gave a link to your site, how is that stealing ?

[Ferox]

I am also confused as to how somebody steals links.

[Nathan]

Willy runs a scraper site. All it did in that case was give a link to your Florida fishing piers site. This is not a bad thing. Rather it just means that you get a backlink to your blog.

It won't hurt you any neonguy.

(By the way, I removed the link to the scraper site. No reason to hurt ourselves by linking to a trashy site like that. We also don't want to feed him any PR.)

[The Spotnik]

Excuse a stupid question, but what's a scraper site?

[Nathan]

A scraper site is a site that steals content from other blog's RSS feeds and uses that content to build one huge blog that is much bigger than all the other blogs that it steals from.

[The Spotnik]

Ok, thanks. As long as they're giving credits and backlinks, I guess that's not a problem? But do they do so?

[stephen todd]

Originally Posted by The Spotnik

Ok, thanks. As long as they're giving credits and backlinks, I guess that's not a problem? But do they do so?

Most people use commercial scripts to do the scraping - usually just turning what's on the sites RSS feed into on page content for the scraper site's pages - complete with live links, and hence backlinks to the donor site

However it's possible to scrape from sites that don't even have RSS feeds - by programming a script to retrieve source code between 2 points - i.e. if you had a super duper home page that changed every day, by looking at the page's source code, a start point and an end point can be found that will strip out the best bits - that's what I call a scraper, rather than a feed aggregator

A true scraper will not normally give any form of credit for the source material - but it would be easy to do so in the programming of the script

[neonguy528]

I had a guy steal my blog link so he could get on page 1 of Google blog search. Keywords: Florida Fishing Piers. Then you click on the link, it's full of adsense, then a link to his blog on marketing. This is low.

[Ferox]

You reposted the same thing as a new thread. Please don't, it's spammy.