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Don’t Let Someone Else Claim Your Blog

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Photo stealing, content theft, RSS scrapers, people hacking into your blog – we have heard about it all, but have you ever thought your entire blog could even be claimed by someone else?

But that is exactly what had happened to Ramkarthic some time ago at MyBlogLog. Someone else had claimed Ramkarthik’s blog back in August of last year and I remember freaking out about it! Talk about dishonesty on the net.  Ramkarthik was able to get the blog ownership back but I can imagine how he might have felt at the time.

So if you have an account with MyBlogLog but hardly ever log in the service, at least now you should go there and claim your blog, just like I am doing right now. There are a couple of methods to claim your blog, either by Undergoing MyBlogLog Verification by writing a post about it or by adding a Meta Tag to your website.

And God forbid, if you are the one whose blog has been claimed by someone else, go here to find out how you can get it back.

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Hopeful Spirit

Thanks for participating in The Seventh Day blog carnival this week. This post has some very valuable information . . . I’m willing to bet that you are providing information that is unknown to many readers.

Hope you will participate again in the future!

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SandyCarlson

Thanks for the scoop.

I’m here via The Seventh Day.

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Gattina

I don’t know what it means “claim my blog” does it mean it disappears or what ? anyway I think if someone puts pictures on his blog he should protect them in a way nobody can copy them, if he/she doesn’t want that they are copied. My pictures are for everybody I don’t care !

This is my 7 day’s visit, lol !

pearl

to all 7th day’s visitors: A Warm Welcome to all of you! and thanks for commenting too… Hope you will visit again! :)

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pearl

@Kaylee @Aruni @RennyBA – yes, its crazy what happened to Ram and I’m sure it can happen to anyone else – God knows why some people are so desperate for doing things that don’t make sense to most of us! Renny – you have to ‘verify’ your blog to make it known to them

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pearl

@Kim – you are always on top of the things I know :)

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David Deangelo

I try and CONFRONT them. Usually these types of people know they are doing something not legit, they are usually pretty good about removing it. If not, contact their host! =)

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Bobby Revell

Hacking mybloglog is an easy affair. Type “hacking mybloglog” in the google search bar and find SoeMoney’s post on how it’s done…very frightening.

Although his technique is no longer valid, if you know how to edit a cookie, you can do it. However, it is wrong and only a loser will do things like that.

I’ve had my articles stolen so many times it literally ruined my page rank, because of them having hundreds of articles with my post’s exact same title and content. I personally had 71 sites taken down by reporting adsense violations…what a pain that is.

All I can say, is if you are writing truly valuable information – publish a real book and leave the really good stuff off your blog; it will be stolen and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Some thieves will actually rewrite content and use a completely different title – not linking to you at all and simply using your stuff as their own. They change it just enough to do it legally. That’s why I only publish my mediocre work and am saving my best for print!

Great post Pearl!

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Ramkarthik

Hi Pearl, Sorry for the very late comment. I actually didn’t see the post until today, when I checked Technorati for the backlinks. I was indeed in a very bad position when my blog was claimed. But luckily, I got it back. I hope no one will make the mistake in future by not claiming their blog very soon.

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pearl

@David – I think its much easier to log in your account @ MBL and verify your site now – than having to confront someone, after the fact! :)

@Bobby – that thread is really scary at Shoemoney! I never saw it – although Shoemoney is in my feed reader! and Im really shocked to hear your articles have been stolen… you know, I am sick of those guys too who are stealing content – verbatim… and I wrote to adsense the other day only to get back an email that I’d have to send them in writing and mailing via snail mail – Im pretty sure thats what they said but I’ll double check it now..

thanks for stopping by Bobby – its always good to hear from you

its an idea to leave the best stuff for offline but its really a shame people do that….