I flagged it for you!!!!!

fastads1.home@blogger.com  is the culprit - do you belong to that? 

I would start signing your blog - it looks like it was just reprinted or added like google places ads on your page content.

Cyndi- Even the links are still the same!!!

Chris - you can go into the googleads part and flag it there too. 

Chris, I clicked the title of the blog and it opens your website, Maybe it is not that bad after all?

I have had this happen to me too, but the "thieves" actually yse my name in an intro.  Strange how they find us and re-post our stuff

Chris - I flagged it. My other blog was copied on Blogger as well. The person is using it to sell google ads I am sure.

thats what I am saying, they even used your photo, its like it was reposted and if you had your author information that would be the same - and if you included a link to your webpage.....

I understand the frustration and yes anger - but isn't it also good advertising in a way?  and what a compliment - you authored such a great piece it was stolen.  Now that's a compliment. :)

Betty... I flagged it.

Anyone else... Do you have an ideas on what to do when someone copies text & graphics from on non-blog website?

Chris,

I flagged it for you as well......I never took the time to see if anyone copies my content but I spend a lot of time in localism and they would just be advertising my homes or area.....

Wow yes I would agree sign your blogs it would make it more difficult for the content to be stolen. I will go report it as well. Good luck with everything.

Chris,  I flagged it a well.  Hope this is of some help.  Mike 

Chrisbrogan.com wrote a story about my blog last week.  He recommended I sign my posts and I just actually started that on my post that went out at 3:00 this morning.  Oh well. 

Steve, I actually looked for the google leads report button and missed it. I'll go  back.

Found the google report button:  Here if anyone is curious.

Chris, flagged. I hate when people can't have an original thought! On another note...I love your background photo!

I did...but if you click to see all the comments it goes directly to yuor blog.

Wow, that is pretty bold.  You'd figure they would at least credit you somehow.

Would a "Credit" make me feel better or be seen by anyone that thinks this is alright if the site was selling adult toys and viagra? 

I get paid by the local paper to create words in the form of a column and for the paper's blog. How come they pay to use my content but the splogger doesn't?

That is just unbelievable! You are right to get the AR members after this thief.

All the best from Charlottesville

Done...

What a shame, I need to check mine as it does get splogged quite often, maybe there is another site, set up but I know the content is out there, how did you find it? Google alerts? Of course many times they change my name, Ethal is one of them.

Curious...

CE,

What kind of SOB is this?

Did you call this POS yet?

Google alert on this one Missy.  They're reported in more ways than one and the twitterers really pulled thru, too.

I have flagged...feels like my good deed for the day!

We're camping up in the woods of Miane with limited cell and interent connection BUT I am heading over to flag it.

Chris,

I understand your frustration... I flagged it too.

Rob

I flagged it as well. Hangin is too good for them.

Oh my gawsh!!! They syndicated my email asking them to take my stuff down!

http://homeimprovementnews.blogspot.com/2008/07/your-lowes-blog.html

I also flagged it, Chris. Good luck...what a pain.

Jeff

What an idiot. I'm sorry to hear about it. And to post your email asking them to stop? insane.

Chris,

I too flagged it.

Chris,

I don't understand this whole thing...isn't it creating more 'google juice' for you, and linking back to your site?

On another note, I don't like the ads on Active Rain that have a competitor's ad on my blog...!

See, I don't understand!

The internet is like chaos in cyberspace!!!

Thanks,   Fran

Fran, I wrote it, I created it, I took every picture and someone has stolen the information and put it on their dispos-a-blog to make money by having related google adwords on the page, without my persmission or any monetary benefit to me, the owner.  On top of that, they are deceiving the public that stumbles onto MY data.

As I said before to a few people that thought it was no big deal....what if they were selling porn, dealing in kiddie issues or selling viagra?  Where is this line that should be drawn?  It is my property and if I wanted generate money using adwords I'd have adwords on my freeking site.

Chris,

I agree with every word in your comment response to me...that's what prompted my internet chaos comment...it's like a city with no police force!!! Chaos!!! We agree, don't we? Thanks,   Fran

P.S. Idea!!! Let's call Al...he invented it!!! LOL

Flagged.  Pathetic, parasitic creep!  It IS a big deal! 

I flagged it too! How did you find out about it?  I would ask Lenn Harley about this - she's the end all be all of web theives and how to STOP them.

     I flagged it also,    As some of the better bloggers (like you) increase their role to the public, we will see more of this crap happen by unscruplious people that feed off of others talent.

Hi Chris,  Yes, flagged it !  Just curious - why don't people name the individual who has done the deed ?  Legal reason, professional courtesy, just wonderin !

I posted earlier this week about the same thing happening to me.  I sent a "Cease and Desist" email to the person and the next day all my stolen content was removed.  I would not bother with flagging. Blog post theft is a violation of copyright law - remind the thief of that, and let him know you are serious by completing the initial step before taking legal action, a "Cease and Desist Notification".

I'll go an flag as well.

Chris, go to this site www.plagiarismtoday.com for instructions on how to file a DMCA with Google to take the site down. Also, do a WHOIS to see if the splogger is in the US. If they're not, all you can get Google to do is put a no-follow tag and then they'll list the splogger in Chilling Effects.

I had this happen to me but the originator was located in the Czech Republic. They set up these sites simply to earn money from Google Ads. I followed the instructions from the plagiarismtoday site and got a no-follow tag and the articles of mine that they copied supposedly won't be listed in a search for those keywords.

Regarding others comments that the linking to your real blog is good ... it's NOT. These sploggers select the higher traffic blogs, then eventually their Google PR increases because of the good content and keywords. Pretty soon, they'll be competing with you on page 1 and eventually overtake you. The higher their traffic is, the more money they make on their Google Ads. So you don't want their links.

Hey, ya'll I will have to check back with you later, on the way to a 5th of July party!

Hi Chris - This is one of the nice things about having a large online social network -- when something like this happens, we can react quickly in force. I've flagged it, and hope this comes to a quick resolution. Have a great time at the 5th party!

Unfortunately it happens more often than not.  It's great that you are writing about it and the "bandit" may get discouraged.  Too bad there isn't some sort of "hotline" to report the thiefs! In lieu of the hotline I've flagged the post.

Done deal, Chris.  What a sleazy person.

Chris, Elaine, & John,

You're scaring the heck out of me...thank God you guys are around to protect us 'Dummies'!!! Thanks,   Fran

Chris.....I also flagged it.  This creep highjacked the entire blog.

People just don't seem to get it what we spend our time on should be ours and to steal it is just wrong. Some will never get it

I'd ask to monetary compensation per violation, but that's just me about to rant because they ticked my on-line buddy off. BTW, I flagged the post and did a little recreational reading on the subject.

Chris, here is what you need to know:

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/10/what-do-you-do-when-someone-steals-your-content/

Now go bust them up, girlfriend! You need us to do anything else besides flag it, let us know. The FBI handles copyright violations, WTF, give them a call bay-bay. I'm sure they have some site set up somewhere where you can register a complaint.

Very interesting.  Hope you get them to cease and desist!

Flagged it. What a pain to deal with people like this. Lenn knows how to make them pay up.

Done my friend and if you want I will hunt him down and hang him by his _______!

 Some people just have no respect do they? Even if you sign your work, people can still copy and paste. I have a photography web site coming out where I sell my pics. I have to either shrink the pics, or water-mark them so they can't be copied.

 The world is full of thief's, I am sorry!

Robert Swetz

The problem with technology is that there are so many ways to make money doing un-ethical things.

Good luck

Unbelievable! I am very new to both Active Rain, and Blogging in general, and had no idea that I needed to watch out for such a thing.  I flagged it, and just wish there was more I could do to help.  Don't worry though, the giant wheel of Karma has got to be headed this jerk's way!

Flagged.  It is annoying.  I have had to deal with the ones that steal the feed and also the ones that point the feed (they give me credit, but are trying to use my content for their adwords).

I cannot believe this goes on, yet know it does. Stopping by to FLAG it for you. Seriously, who do these people think they are? Hopefully they did it in ignorance 'cause many do not realize that copyrighting exists. ;-)

Flagged again by me. This thing seems to be on complete auto-pilot. I hope they find the person behind this. I see the irony that they even captured your quote from FDR: "Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world." Whole. New. Meaning.

Flagged it for you.  What lazy lazy people.  They probably spend more time looking for things to steal, when with all the time they waste, could have thought of something themselves....or not.

You all are amazing.  I can't believe how many of you stepped up to help.  Thank you.

Chris~ I went ahead and flagged it for you!  It is disgraceful and the ultimate sign of laziness on his part.  He should be ashamed of himself.   Go and Get him!

http://homeimprovementnews.blogspot.com/2008/07/your-lowes-blog.html

The bottom of this post gives out all of your info  including your home phone number.

Looks like your v-card needs to be changed == if it's not too late.

Hey Chris,

This stuff is happening more and more. People find it easier to steal than create their own content for their pages.

This may have been an automated process. They are sometimes called "scraper" sites; programs that search the internet and "scrape" content from other sites. The main purpose is to get content to have the search engines rank them high and have ads all over to make money.

More than likely, the time between your post and the person stealing it was a good amount of time. This helps prove to the search engines that your content was the original and you won't get hit with a duplicate content penalty...the crook will...especially since you have some Page Rank in Google and they don't.

Good luck with this, but don't stress too much...chances are it will happen again with some other site

Get them Chris.  I flagged it for you too.  So much to keep track of when blogging

Hi Chris...I flagged it also.  I wanted to write a comment on each one saying that this was plagiarized from your site but I did not know how to do it.

I wish we could find out who is doing this so we could let them know what we think of this type of behavior.  If this is an agent they need to be exposed.

If you find out who it is, please let us know.

Kathleen

Chris: I'm not sure if you did this already, but you can report specifics to Blogger/Google by clicking here: http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=82114&blog_ID=&blog_URL= Only you can report this. Others cannot do it for you. I have had my content stolen before too. Somehow it wound up on a blog site about Benazir Bhutto. It was crazy. I was not able to track down the owner of the blog - someone in Pakistan - and I doubt it would have done any good anyway. Good luck with this.

I'll be more than happy to oblige.... I just went over there and came back here. I missed the part where you said you had contacted Lowes. That blog is totally confusing! What purpose does it serve for the owner? I don't get WHY they would want to make it look like all that content is their own. What are they selling for themselves? What's the purpose of the blog?

Oh. I thought I'd come back to help with the SEO for this common crook. ;)

Oh my Chris.. Say it isn't so... this is a cheap shot of this person...

Chris, I flagged the post today.  Hopefully, this will continue.  I also hope the site will be blacklisted into internet oblivion.  Thievery online of other people's content is just plain wrong.  Their posting your e-mail was indicative of the level of intelligence involved here...unfortunately.

I flagged it too - I hope it helps!!! How disturbing!! I have google alerts set up for our businesses and our names, but I know this can still happen. Cyber identity theft! Jerks.

Chris, I flagged it for you as well.

Chris, its flagged.  Good luck! 

Keep us posted on your progress in getting the cease and desist. Good luck!

Chris - I flagged it for you as also. I hope you'll be able to bring this crook down. Good luck.

Wow!  Stuff like that happen more often than not.  Did it get fixed?  I didn't see duplicate content when I compared both links.   I would have been glad to have given you love, but I might have overlooked the duplication.

Flagged.  Go get em!

It looks as though it's merely a feed that links back to your blog/site. Its pretty common these days isn't it?

I flagged it and then gave them the finger salute :-)  

Pretty disgusting----I flagged it too. 

So reprehensible! Happened to me with another site, not my current blog. I got a screen capture and copied links as evidence. Notified the Realtor, their Broker, My Broker, my website host, their website host, my local Board and my Attorney. The Realtor had copied my entire site and proceeded to make changes to all of my contact information with her own. Unbelievable! It's called stealing. There's nothing flattering about it. There are copyright and itellectual property laws. Fortunately, it was removed within a matter of hours. Good luck to you.

I flagged it too...Hope it helps.

Done!  Flagged!  Hope it helps!

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Above is an issue we have all the time. 

If you click the above link it will take you to a site that has nothing to do with our site.  Yet, since our site is a highly indexed web property, occasionally, we'll have folks to use our name (needanotary.net) in their keywords and in senseless ways in their website content to steal traffic. 

Google has got pretty good at de-indexing pages without any conversation from us.  It used to be a big problem, as there was once about 20,000 such links across the Internet after our site was included in the Open Directory. 

We're finding less and less of them lately. On somebody copies our contact us page and left the contact and phone numbers intact.

Periodically run searched for your domain and you'll be surprised as to what you can often find listed.  Stealing traffic is quite common across the Internet.  One day I'll discuss the big traffic stealing battle between Argent and New Century that turned personal.

flagged it yesterday morning when I saw the discussion on Twitter.  keep us posted

Hi, I flagged it also.  If anyone should profit from your hard work and time and your creativeness, it should be you!  An honest person/organization would have contacted you, asked permission, and negotiated an arrangement that would be beneficial to you too.  This is an outright theft. Hope you can get it resolved.  Keep us posted on the developments.

Chris, I flagged it. That is just a low down way of blogging. How did the person get your entire blog over to his? Did he just link the files and use HTML to do it? We have to find a way to prevent this from happening.

I flagged it Chris, also wanted to let you know I spent sometime in Naples FL and enjoyed your blog while there.

I flagged it Chris, also wanted to let you know I spent sometime in Naples FL and enjoyed your blog while there.