Track down the sploggers?

Posted by scoop on September 22nd, 2006 in Business Blogging, Splogs |

Stop the sploggers!

There’s a buzz around Bitacle.org, a Spanish-based site which aggregates different feeds from all over the Internet. The site has been the object of contempt and currently it is inaccessible. Maybe it got Dugg? Or there’s too many people who got curious and tried to access it with or without Digg?

Tracking down sploggers could be something difficult to do. Sometimes you’d just accidentally come across them when you egosurf or when a reader of your blog suddenly tells you about it. It’s pretty tricky. You may not notice them. Google may not notice them either. You’d have to be some kind of searchbot who is dedicated to tracking them down if you do want to do that.

I am not saying that you should not track them down. What I am simply pointing out is that in reality, it’s much more difficult for you to see them on your radar. As much as you’d like to be acknowledged for the content you post on your blog, you’d have to be the one to take actions, if you really want something to happen. It’s not really a waste of time especially if you know that it’s worth your effort. And that you could probably try to point out to the splogger what the heck is wrong with what they do.

And there’s also effort in sorting out splogger-looking sites. There are some sites that aggregate feed for research purposes (it might be for stats, for tags and anything). Usually, those sites do acknowledge their sources. If, in case, your blog gets aggregated in such a site, you could observe it and see how much of your content is taken from you, aside from the stuff you set your blog to put in the feed. In case you see that the site is mainly scraping your content, try to email the person or the team behind the site. Sometimes you could be surprised that these people would actually correspond with you and you could end up with an arrangement that both of you would find suitable.