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	<title>Comments on: Make scrapers work for your blog</title>
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		<title>By: Ara Pehlivanian</title>
		<link>http://aralbalkan.com/1132/comment-page-1#comment-101963</link>
		<dc:creator>Ara Pehlivanian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I write a blog that nobody cares about. That&#039;s how I deal with scrapers! :-P</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I write a blog that nobody cares about. That&#8217;s how I deal with scrapers! :-P</p>
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		<title>By: Isofarro</title>
		<link>http://aralbalkan.com/1132/comment-page-1#comment-101841</link>
		<dc:creator>Isofarro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Is having incoming links from these areas to your sites really a good thing?&quot;

It won&#039;t be a bad thing for your site. If Google penalises the linked site, then SEOers could attack well-respected sites by linking to it from dubious sources. Now if _you_ link to the bad neighbourhood, that would be something penalisable.

Whether there&#039;s any good - I think Joost above nails it. If a bad neighbourhood links to your post, that must mean your post existed first, therefore should have a higher &#039;original author&#039; score.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Is having incoming links from these areas to your sites really a good thing?&#8221;</p>
<p>It won&#8217;t be a bad thing for your site. If Google penalises the linked site, then SEOers could attack well-respected sites by linking to it from dubious sources. Now if _you_ link to the bad neighbourhood, that would be something penalisable.</p>
<p>Whether there&#8217;s any good &#8211; I think Joost above nails it. If a bad neighbourhood links to your post, that must mean your post existed first, therefore should have a higher &#8216;original author&#8217; score.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Long</title>
		<link>http://aralbalkan.com/1132/comment-page-1#comment-101420</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael Long</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One can also include a lot of links to your other stories (e.g. as we discussed in xxx), such that if they just drop it in as a whole you may get traffic coming in via your copies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One can also include a lot of links to your other stories (e.g. as we discussed in xxx), such that if they just drop it in as a whole you may get traffic coming in via your copies.</p>
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		<title>By: Dealing With Blog Scrapers With Wordpress &#124; David Bisset: Web Designer, Coder, Wordpress Guru</title>
		<link>http://aralbalkan.com/1132/comment-page-1#comment-101411</link>
		<dc:creator>Dealing With Blog Scrapers With Wordpress &#124; David Bisset: Web Designer, Coder, Wordpress Guru</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Arial Balkan notes today that he is using Joost de Valk&#8217;s Wordpress RSS Footer plugin, which is what i&#8217;ve been using since i restarted my blog. Scrapers use to bother me, but less now. Getting used to it, especially after I added &#8220;Copyright © 2007 - David Bisset (davidbisset.com) ID#DAVIDBISSET1701&#8243; at the end of each feed which allows me to easily track via a google search where the scrapers are (in case you were wondering, if you are reading this in your RSS reader). Arial uses a link back, and he questions it - I had the same questions myself. On the safe side for now, I stick with a copyright. How many real human beings are reading the scrapers I wonder?  Tags: Plugins, RSS, Scrapers, Wordpress [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Arial Balkan notes today that he is using Joost de Valk&#8217;s Wordpress RSS Footer plugin, which is what i&#8217;ve been using since i restarted my blog. Scrapers use to bother me, but less now. Getting used to it, especially after I added &#8220;Copyright © 2007 &#8211; David Bisset (davidbisset.com) ID#DAVIDBISSET1701&#8243; at the end of each feed which allows me to easily track via a google search where the scrapers are (in case you were wondering, if you are reading this in your RSS reader). Arial uses a link back, and he questions it &#8211; I had the same questions myself. On the safe side for now, I stick with a copyright. How many real human beings are reading the scrapers I wonder?  Tags: Plugins, RSS, Scrapers, Wordpress [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Joost de Valk</title>
		<link>http://aralbalkan.com/1132/comment-page-1#comment-101346</link>
		<dc:creator>Joost de Valk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Aral, though I can understand your thoughts, I would not worry to much about that, if anything, these links will help search engines to acknowledge the right version of the article.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Aral, though I can understand your thoughts, I would not worry to much about that, if anything, these links will help search engines to acknowledge the right version of the article.</p>
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