I was reading a post on condodomain, about a crackberry???? and email addiction. Good post, but you will never get me to turn of my automatic send/receive…I noticed they had a pingback from this website called loanrates.com. I’m pretty sure that lonerates is scraping the posts from CD, and you really can’t stop them, but you can remove the pingback automatically using a wordpress plugin called no referrer At least the site was providing a link back to Condodomain, unfortunately they also displayed the entire post so there is no reason to visit condodomain from this site.

We had the same problem, until I found the no refer plugin.

Even though comments and pingbacks are “no follow” tags, they still get clicked on which is why these sites auto post using xmlrpc, instead of just grabbing your rss feed.

The no refer plugin comes with a large list of sites that are blocked and wil no be able to create a trackback on your blog. You can also edit this plugin and update the list as new websites start scraping your content.

Also, you can also tell Google adwords department that a site is using your content to generate adword revenue, and they will shut down their account. This is preferred because image having a large amount in your adword account and then losing it all.

We have added the no refer plugin to Propblogs.com to protect all the blogs created there. Once you create a blog, just activate the plugin. You cannot edit the file listing the violating websites, only I can, so it you are having trouble with a site spidering your stuff, just let me know and I will add the site to list.

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