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Grahito

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Posted by Grahito • 3/24/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: feed, rss

Beware of activate your RSS or feed, others can copy it, and point at the their blog property but do not make the back link.

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  1. jmarzo
    True in a way, but I like my RSS content out in the open. Nonetheless, you can always limit your RSS to just a few words or characters. Thanks for the heads up.
  2. Grahito
    Thanks for comment
  3. timethief
    You can use some strategies to thwart those who steal content via RSS feeds.
    (1) Set the feed to "summary" instead of full.
    (2) Place an anchored link back to the same post in either the first or second sentence.
    (3) wordpress users can use RSS footer www.joostdevalk.nl/make-the-scrapers-work-for-you/ and other plugins lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/wordpress-plugins-battling-evil/
  4. twitterlogos
    that is crazy didn't know that
  5. kirewass
    @Grahito: You're a blogspot blogger, aren't you? A simple technique is to put a copyright and a warning message to the end of your content.

    Click on 'Settings', then 'Site Feed'. Scroll down to 'Post Feed Footer'. Write something like this: ©2009(your blog address here) This RSS Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at may be guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact (your e-mail address here).
    Click on 'Save'.

    This message will be visible with a link back to your blog if your full feed content is displayed somewhere else.

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