Art Of Money

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You’ve put your latest affiliate love child online and it’s too soon to tell if your idea is going to take off or not, but how can you know that the idea is a killer?

Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery…

I guess if some wanker takes the time to copy it verbatim, that would be a pretty good endorsement. I guess it is some small consolation that at least he is translating it into another language.

Don’t be a Stupid Thief

Now if you’re into stealing someone’s site, make sure you’re not as stupid as this guy.

Dumb move #1

Coming to my site over and over, day after day, from the same IP address.

I used my .htaccess file to ban the IP address, but alas dude is crafty, he starting using the Google cache to scrape my site.

23rd August 2007
12:03:49
www.google.com/search?aq=t&oq=&hl=en&safe=off&q=ninja blog setup&btnG=Search&lr=
64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:Osm_3k2nx5sJ:www.ninjablogsetup.com/ ninja blog setup&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1

Dumb Move #2

Clicking through to my site from the site where you are posting the stolen content

22nd August 2007
19:02:26
instalacion.blogdinero.org/?page_id=3
www.ninjablogsetup.com/

Really Dumb Move #3

Don’t store a copy of the content onto you local file system, especially if you’ve named your “My Documents” folder with your FULL NAME. As soon as you look at it, since you saved it with my Stat Counter code in it, it will register as an impression in my stats, revealing the local file system.

22nd August 2007
19:25:24
No referring link
/C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Firstname%20Lastname/Escritorio/principal.html

Really Dumb Move #4

Use a domain name with privacy protection, rather than sticking your stolen concept on to your existing site:

Whois Record

Domain ID:D148670571-LROR
Domain Name:  [edit: removed]
Created On:23-Jul-2007 03:44:33 UTC
Last Updated On:21-Aug-2007 05:20:57 UTC
Expiration Date:23-Jul-2008 03:44:33 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Tucows Inc. (R11-LROR)
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:tubKznpgxIKPKRi9
Registrant Name:  [edit: removed]
Registrant Organization: [edit: removed]
Registrant Street1: [edit: removed]
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:san diego
Registrant State/Province:Other
Registrant Postal Code:2006
Registrant Country:VE
Registrant Phone:  [edit: removed]
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX: [edit: removed]
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email: [edit: removed]

I’m not really liking Mr. [edit: removed] chances of doing well with blogging for dineros if he thinks stealing is the way to get ahead.

Update: I have taken the personal information out of this post, since the purpose has been served. You can read Negative to Positive… to see how it all turned out.