As you may have noticed I don’t blog often, I respect my reader’s time and don’t like to waste it with mundane stuff. At any rate, the web-site and the web log take a great deal of my time and effort, they don’t come cheap or easy. For example: I spent over 16 hours of my time in the last Saturday and Monday’s Las Vegas foreclosure home and condo auctions, spent three days to prepare for the auction and have been analyzing the results for the last two days with one more day to go, so I can do a series of 2-4 blogs and a couple of pages for the web-site about the foreclosure auctions. As I have mentioned before, I have been hurt in an auto accident and have good days and bad days, but in the best of days, sitting on a portable chair at the auction for hours hurts me badly, but I tough it out since I have to compete with young and able bodied competition on even terms and I love to compete.
Unfortunately some of my young and able competitors don’t like to play on an even field and choose to advance the easy way, by cheating. One could gain search engine rankings in two ways, work for it, which I did, or find high ranking web-sites or blogs and copy their content to your site.
I was surprised to find out that another Las Vegas Realtor is stealing my blog posts and publishing them on his web-site. What he is doing is, he cuts the title to my blog and copies it to his and then copies the body of the articles, strips the links that point back to my blog site and then publishes them. On some posts he adds the following
“RSS auto Inserter used. We have no control over this content. The content belongs wholy to the owner!” This should be linked to my site except that he removes the link. There is no mention of whom the owner is or a link back to my blog. Our friend can’t spell wholly correctly either.
You can see the stolen blog post on his site here. offender-site ( I have removed the link here) and my original post here Issues about buying Las Vegas, Nevada new high-rise and mid-rise condos.
He is showing my stolen blog posts as his on his home page, you can see it here ( I have removed the link) . He is even offering a subscriber feed to my blog posts that he is publishing on his site.
How this works is that as soon as I publish a blog post, it gets published on his site and will be e-mailed to his subscribers as his articles.
Not only is this plagiarism, as far as the all important search engines are concerned, the issue of duplicate content comes up. Search engine are not detective agencies and don’t investigate which post is original, so each post is given half the credit and ranking. He is not only stealing my words, thoughts and research, he is stealing my search engine ranking for which I have worked thousands of hours in the last 14 months. Additionally, it is not right that I would give up my weekend, attend auctions and work for a week to publish a good post while this gentleman does whatever rocking Realtors do and then steals my post in less than 2 minutes.
What I decided to do about this:
My first inclination was to destroy this guy and I could do it in one hour. I was going to put his name, web-site address and company in the title of this blog and post here and a few more places, so when someone wants to check him out prior to doing business for him, they see this post on top of the search result pages. He could do nothing about it because of the work I have done, I can get any phrase or keyword to rank on top of the search result pages and this guy can’t. But I have experienced so much pain due to my accident that I refuse to harm any living being and unfortunately this guy is one. So instead of punishing him, I decided to pray for him that the GOOD LORD give him a chance to pause and reflect about his life and guide him to use his talents to help his fellow human beings and not take advantage of them or hurt them.
I have not used his name, company or website name here on purpose. He is in control of the pages that I have published the links to, in this post; only he can break these links by deleting the pages, not me. If he deletes all posts that are stolen from me and others, he can remain anonymous and no one will know who he was. If he decides to keep mine or other’s posts, then I will do what my first inclination dictated and will come down on him like a ton of bricks.
I never considered stealing fun, but getting caught is a bitch for sure.
May the GOOD LORD bless us all
This weblog is a part of Las Vegas new homes, condos and commercial real estate for sale and has been copy righted since 2006, publishing any part of this web-log or the web-site without author’s permission is forbidden.
PS: Within minutes of publishing this blog I received a couple of e-mails from our friend’s web master that went on to tell me that the links on my posts that were published were striped automatically and I know for a fact that is not true and that they were removed manually. She then went on threatening me with legal action and destroying my search engine ranking through SEO tricks. Bad, bad mistake! Here is an excerpt:
“I do apologise about this but the rss bot makes mistakes and i will remove every blog post that belongs to you straight away.
You could of asked before making any deflamitory remarks as this is also illegal. Had the act been of Jonathan and had the act been not automated then maybe you had a legal stand point. But as the system was automated and you were broadcasting a feed and Jonathan had nothing to do with this your blog post becomes cause for liable and defamation of character. Please retract your statment from your blog and i will remove the automated content that was placed into Jonathans blog by accident I am very sorry about this this situation.
Also please understand I build websites for a living and Do SEO there are many ways to destroy the competition and stealing someone’s content is not the way. Many black hat SEO tricks can be used to totally get you banned from Google of course I would never do this but if you write such things about certain other people you may find your site under attack.”
My reply follows:
Back links to my site were removed manually and I can prove it, you got caught. Now that you have threatened me, deal with consequences. If anything whatever happens to my site or rankings I will deal with you and your customer through legal means. You are forbidden from accessing my web-site or blog or from e-mailing me.
She finally saw the light and decided to act properly and e-mailed me this:
“Look am very sorry and I did not threaten you really. I just want to apologies for the misunderstanding and i have removed the offending content from the site. If you wish to sue someone then you have to sue me as i am cupable not Jonathan.
If you require any information about me and my company for such a process then please contact me once again i am very sorry and there was in no way any threat intended i do not deal like that and you have worked very hard for what you have and what you have acheived.
The problem with all text based messages is there is no internation so it is hard to convey sincerity really i am truely sorry and i have delt with it sorry Laurien”
As I have mentioned I am not here to harm anyone, I accept the apology and will remove the link to this guys home page, the other link is broken and will serve as a reminder to others who would think about stealing from me.
This guy is off the hook and shall remain anonymous.
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