Splogs on Your Blogs – Kicking Back
Splogs are blogs that use your content without permission, posts them onto their sites for profits without even giving you a mention or credit for what they’ve done. They do get away with it and in the process they earn in terms of traffic to their sites thus increasing their profits. Most experts suggest kicking back by adding a simple plugin called RSS Footer that comes from Ytoast.com which allows you to automatically add an extra line of content to your feed that automatically places a footer that say’s “Post From :” with a link to your blog along with your blog’s name. Splogs are simple copy/paste artists who leach traffic from your site to theirs thus getting traffic that should have been yours.
People on the Wordpress forums suggest that you rename the wp-signup.php file which they say is quite effective at stopping them dead in their tracks. Most others have implemented simple yet effective re-CAPTCHA implementation which can be obtained from their site. This seems to be a very effective screen for botnets who automatically prey on your blogs, relying on human vision and interpretation for a security measure that seems to defy current computer technology. But the easiest way seems to be re-naming the sign-up scripts which is being implemented by most bloggers and admins alike. Opinions differ on the best approach so do keep tabs on future posts for new and improved ways to battle the menace that are splogs.
