In the last 6 months many of my articles have been stolen by other sites. The internet is full of people trying to promote their and as we search the net we come across a lot of bad content. But now instead of creating good content some people choose to steal it from others.
Auto blogging
This is where someone uses a
programme which automatically takes information from other web pages (referred
to as scraping) to fill their own site. They claim it's sharing work that
people wanted to share widely any way. But the work is often not credited to
the original author and can have small alterations. It also goes high on Google
search results, often even higher than the original site. Which damages
the original traffic to the original author.
Theft
This is the best word for it however
anyone tries to auto blogging. They're profiting from other people's unique
work. I put a lot of time and effort into my content as do thousands of others.
Why should it be ripped off for someone else's greed? What's worse is that some
of my content ended up on sites which I am morally opposed to. Sites promoting
things like gambling and even pornography. This can not be ignored.
How to tackle it
Disable RSS Feeds
People will find your blog if you
keep producing good content. RSS could be useful but they're the main gateway
to auto blogger finding and ripping out content. It is useful that you can
disable RSS feeds with blogger as it isn't possible to do this with all blog
sites.
Put a copyright notice on your
articles
You don't have to do this as you
automatically own your own work but is will show anyone reading an infringing
site where the article belongs and hopefully they will contact you.
Do regular search engine checks
Check to see if any of your distinct
articles have been stolen.
Report to Google
Google is quite quick at dealing with
reported pages often within a couple of days. Some people recommend contacting
the infringing site first but I've stopped doing this. It's simply a matter of
time. I've wasted too much time having to report the dozens of articles that
were plagiarised to Google. So I wont waste time writing to the content thieves.
Here's a link for the report form.
If the infringing page uses adsense
or adwords the sites normally remove the content quicker as they risk losing
they're accounts. If they don't advertise on the page they may not respond at
all but Google will still remove them from their search results.
Copyright © Nathan Groves http://wondersandparodies.blogspot.com/
This Work Is Not To Be Reproduced With Out Permission.
6 comments:
Nice article,this should be read by many. Good pointers.
Instead of completely disabling the RSS feeds on my blogs, I changed the settings so that only short excerpts would be published in the RSS feeds. That way auto-blogging software will not be able to steal the whole article via RSS.
Another idea is to add a link to your full post in the excerpts so that if the excerpt gets scrapped, at least you have a free backlink to your original post.
That way you would still have an RSS feed available for people to subscribe to and receive lots of extra traffic, that would otherwise be lost.
It's an option but even the excerpt option can show high in rankings taking traffic away from your original page. If people want to follow your page they'll remember it and conme back.
Good post. I was wondering how to protect my work and I'll take your suggestions into account. You might also want to try http://www.copyscape.com/ to check if your content has been copied by someone else on the web.
Many of your articles have been stolen... now why doesn't that surprise me? http://rcbenglishclass.blogspot.com/2011/11/successful-plagiarism-revisited-when.html
Thanks...I posted this on my FB site....Terrible what people do, eh..?
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