So you’ve tried all means and ways of getting the blog that is scraping your content blocked or removed. You have contacted Google, the blog’s hosting website as well as the server or domain hosting it, but your splogger is still unstoppable in his pursuit and plagiarism of your content? Well then, as promised, here’s a list of some deterring steps that you can take in order to make content scrapers move on:
Create Internal Links: More often than not, if someone is hell-bent on using your blog’s text, he or she will do it no matter what. However, you can try stealing their traffic by providing a number of links to your own blog’s previous posts in your write-ups. Referring to your blog posts all the time will make the readers realize that the original content is from you, which will drive them to your site. The links that you provide will be an easy way of making traffic from the splog come to your site.
Limit Your Feed Content: Since most scrapers use RSS feeds for scraping content off your blog, providing just a summary of your post, instead of the whole text, will discourage plagiarists from using your content.
Copyright Your Text: There are a number of Wordpress tools available that let you place an undeletable copyright footer in your RSS feeder. If you place such a notice, the readers of the spam blog will know that the original content is from your blog, and they may even shift to reading your blog.
Keep Deleting Pingbacks: If you keep internally linking your blog posts, then every time someone posts your content on his or her blog, they will get a link to their site placed on your blog. You will get notified when a pingback is placed on your blog through email. In order to stop traffic from your site going to the splogger, you should delete their pingbacks the moment they are created.
Try Cloaking Your Feeds: Feed cloaking or anti leeching creates wrong or fake content for people who are scraping your blogs and splog bots, while the correct content is provided to genuine readers and clean bots. Both feed cloaking or use anti-leech plugins work the same way. The plagiarizing blog is identified by the user-agent strings or the IP address that you provide when setting up the plug ins.
In order to cloak your feed, check out this link, feed cloaking method and for anti leeching software, you can click on anti-leech plugin.
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internal Link is nice idea to secure the content from steelers
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Another great way to stop scrapers is to install the No More Frames plugin which stops sites from trying to load your content into their own frame
Nice tips especially the first one on weaving internal links within the post being scraped, what a way to do reverse contact hijacking!
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