You may have heard of Flogs — fake blogs — that siphon other people’s content and claim it as their own. There are many examples of them. Content from various sites I maintain has been a target of Flogs.
I learned about one particular site which boasts the tagline “If it’s worth reading, we’ve written it.” Of course, they haven’t written anything. The site creators are automatically pulling down content from the legitimate book review site Becky’s Book Reviews and presenting it as their own. As with many Flogs, they’ve attached Google ads to the site (by the way, you can probably report them to Google and have their Google ad account terminated).
Today, Becky blogged about the unscrupulous site in a post she titled “Don’t be Fooled by Imitations” and, as you probably guessed, her post was pulled down to the Flog site. Too bad it’s an automated site and the post probably won’t cause the site owner any reaction.
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