If you have Google Alerts running for your top keywords to identify when someone has linked to you or mentioned your site, you’ve surely found questionable places abusing your content.
A huge percentage of the time I have found that they are junk blogs at blogspot.com. That’s Google blogging platform. It’s free and spammers abuse the hell out of it and steal keyword rich content with no attribution to authors to get their vi*agra links into the engines.
If you’ve seen this and you haven’t figured out how to get past the abysmally closed door policy of Google (you can’t flag blogs in blogspot at all on the blog pages. Nor can you easily figure out how to report them.)
Here’s how you can fight back against Blogspot Spam:
1. Make a note of the blog URL. It is usually a bunch of garbled numbers and crap. These guys aren’t even trying to hide what they do. Here’s an example: the86295. blogspot. com
2. Report the scum bucket here.
3. Repeat this simple step every time you see a crap.blogspot.com URL using your content to spam.
As smart as Google is, for some reason they’ve chosen to let us be the spam cops in this case. So be it. With everyone reporting these crap blogs the spammers will soon find it not worth the effort and move on to the next wide-open spam spot on the web.
ProBlogger has an article on how to fight scrapers that will help you with a WordPress plugin and tips on how to ruin a spammer’s day by getting them booted from Adsense for using your content.