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How do you prevent people from scraping content from your site?
Posted by webdiggin • 3/15/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: content, copyright, scraping blogs, spam blogs, splogs
Just came to the realization that there are some wonderful plugins out there that let you automatically take the RSS feed of a blog and convert them into your own posts.
So in the arms race of bloggers vs sploggers... What do you do to keep your content safe? Or do you do anything because there's a chance that your stolen content may include your original links...
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If you are on WordPress here is some help
- Owen Winkler’s AntiLeech WordPress Plugin
- Better Feed WordPress Plugin
- Digital Fingerprint Detecting Content Theft WordPress Plugin
- FeedEntryHeader WordPress Plugin
- Feed Footer WordPress Plugin
- WP_RssSticky WordPress Plugin
- Simple Feed Copyright WordPress Plugin
- PostLocation WordPress Plugin
- Better Feed WordPress Plugin
- Disclosure Policy Plugin
- DGE_InlineRSS WordPress Plugin
- ©Feed WordPress Plugin
- Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter Plugin
The links are in the article.Gor blogger I don't know they probably have their own plug-ins.
taken from this article at Blog Herald.
www.blogherald.com/2008/03/04/breaking-trust-how-not-to-link-to-a-plagiaris...
I was looking around because I'm starting to get scraped again and most of them do not have comment areas.-
This is a brilliant list of plugins. I'll have a closer look. At a glance, they look like plugins designed to show a copyright disclaimer in the feed. Do you find that's a deterrent? (Presumably automated scraper sites using plugins to rip the feeds into their own posts will just rip the copyright disclaimer... but I imagine that's the point and people will become vigilant while reading the article.)
Really appreciate the heads-up to the blogherald post. It has a lot of great ideas on how to deal with protecting your work - including that signature image. Got to think more about it.
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rofl. That website sucks.
I searched for my blogs and it was like:
"MoneyMoose - A Yahoo Company." What the hell?
And luckily it wasn't stealing my stuff. But man, that sucks.
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Yeah - we got the same thing WebDiggin - A Yahoo Company... I wasn't sure whether to be happy that we weren't in the catalog or disappointed that we weren't big enough yet.
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Some people just do partial feeds. I don't, because I hate reading them.
Another thing to do is to build links to your own blog in the feed, so that if it's stolen, the links lead readers back to you.-
Why do you hate the partial feeds - isn't the point to hook you in and get you onto the site? I thought about going the partial feed route because some of the scrapers are manually taking out the internal links themselves.
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I like to stay in my feed reader. Something has be really good before I'll move to my browser.
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I don't know how to prevent it.. but honestly you can do lot.. by contacting them..
read
www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/steal-the-content-from-the-blog-
Oh yeah, I like it. Research.
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webdiggin, "isn't the point to hook you in and get you onto the site?" that might be the point of the webmaster. The point of a reader to sign up for rss, is to make their own life easier and being able to read all the liked in one convenient place without having to go to all different blogs.
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Some people use something called Copyscape on their blog. I am not sure about it.
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