Comments on: UPDATE: Stealing Page Rank from Crochet Bloggers

By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:43:59 +0000

@Sonya Thanks for the comment, Sonya. Let me know if you get any results. I actually posted this article to the CreativeCrochet site, but they took it down. Unfortunately, they didn’t remove the rest of my posts. Hopefully they’ll get the message if enough of us complain.

By: Sonya

Sonya — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:51:09 +0000

Hi Amy,
I did a backlink check on yahoo and sure enough there was Creativecrochet.com slurping my blog posts and tweets. You can check your backlinks by typing http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=www.YOURDOMAINNAME.com&fr=siteexplorer into your web browser. All of your backlinks will show up there.
I started investigating why my blog and tweets were listed there and did a google search which led me to this post by you. I’m going to email them tonight. I’ll let you know if I get a response. This is not cool.

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:46:59 +0000

Just have a look at their website (creativecrochet.com). They have a link for “Sources”, so look for your blog. You may also see your tweets appearing on their site.

You can also look at your webserver logs to see who is visiting you.

By: Jana Hunter

Jana Hunter — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:01:12 +0000

How do you find out if you are being “scraped”?

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:26:42 +0000

What a travesty. I think everyone should let other bloggers know about these creeps. Not fair to anyone. Thank you for your insightful comments. I will share this info. with some of my blogging friends. You go girl!

By: Angelsan

Angelsan — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:29:30 +0000

Ah, this is a problem I had a few years ago… Luckily the aggregator page didn’t visitors (probably a geek trying stuff out?)

The “no follow” is outragerous. Have you tried changing the adress of your rss feed?

But then the use of google reader and other aggregators also means blogs only get a fraction of the actual readers.

By: Lauraslefthook

Lauraslefthook — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:57:14 +0000

Thanks for sharing. I will have to look into this. I have had a couple sites steal whole posts of mine and my husband helped me get it removed (being that he is a tech geek.) This looks a bit different, though.