What tools do you use to find scraped content?
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This hasn’t been an issue for our company so far, but I like to be proactive. What tools do you use to find sites that may have scraped your content?
Looking forward to your suggestions.
Vic
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Oh, this belongs to a different thread: http://moz.com/community/q/chinese-site-ranking-for-our-brand-name-possible-hack
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Is this part of the original conversation, or something else? Which sites are these?
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I'm not sure we have been scraped as such though, because the site in question has different content.
It looks as though the offending site has hacked another site (which redirects to the offending site) but the hacked site is ranking for our brand name. Our homepage has lost all rankings it had (our category and product pages seem fine) and has essentially disappeared.
Can anyone else shed any light?
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Siteliner (Copyscape's big brother) is really great and what we use first (plus I have a bookmarklet for it to make it faster & easy to use.)
Also use Linda's method of taking a bit of content in quotes. Easiest way to show an ecommerce client how much work they're going to require - take three product descriptions into Google, watch the magic, and explain that would happen across all 15,000 products.
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I spot check on a regular basis by taking a unique chunk out of a post, putting it in quotes, and doing a Google search on it. It's not comprehensive, but it is free. [And the main problems we have had with scrapers have been with sites that have taken huge portions of our content, not just an article or two, and a spot check roots those out.]
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Thanks, Chris & Jonathan. I will look into Copyscape. Good stuff!
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Yep, Copyscape is what I use. I use a wordpress plugin that uses the copyscape API and just check my main content every month or so with a simple click.
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Copyscape works well for us. You can scan a couple of pages for free, and then it's $0.05/page after that.
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