Recently I have noticed a few trackbacks to my site, so I thought i'd check them out...only to find they are positng my entire articles on their blog, one of these blogs has hundreds of thousands of posts on it, all stolen by the looks of it. How do I stop it? Are they just stealing the posts via the RSS feed? should i just turn that off? or restrict it for certain user agents?
Nothing you can do except sending them an email, after which send them a dmca notice... I wouldnt turn of RSS (you can try just putting the article preview in the rss stream).. this way youll at least get some links... Secondly, if your site is remotely significant google will recognize your blog published it first and will show yours as the preferred version.
after you send them the email and nicely ask them to stop stealing your content, if they dont respond you can report them to their advertisers. I've done this more than once, and it worked quite well.
I have a question for you. Is a good idea to publish articles from my blog? Its not considered duplicate? If someone just copy my articles and publish them to other websites, how google knows if they are my articles or not? Thanks
No Solution,just left on Google and search engines. Now all search engines gonna ignore duplicate pages, so stealer would have to delete data and enter its own data, because he wont have ant benefit with stealing post from other sites. Good Luck
well my posts are indexed within a few minutes so hopefully thats quick enough for me to be noted as the original poster.
If your posts have images, put watermark on them so that the readers know where the posts from. If your posts don't have images then try to put some on them
Just write really bad ones that nobody will want to steal! That's what I do and I've never had a problem with someone trying to steal my stuff.
Try this plug in http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/copyfeed/, it will put a notice of copy write in your feeds
Yes. they are using our RSS feeds to generate the data in their site. They will not survive for long. what you can do is, there are some plugins available. using that you can add phrases like "This post was originally posted on mydomain.com for more info please visit our site: mydomain.com" So, you may get traffic as well as backlink (not on all cases) from their site ...
Yes I have copyfeed installed on my blog and it works quite well. Although could just type out the post intead of copy/pasting it. Best solution as mentioned by others is to just complain to their advertisers.
Just write really bad ones that nobody will want to steal! That's what I do and I've never had a problem with someone trying to steal my stuff. ============= Very good IDEA! )
i use that, and it did not slow down the scrapers in the least - i doubt they even know how to read the copyright notice.. if they knew how to read, they'd have jobs or write their own stuff instead of stealing other people's work..
I really do not know much you can do. But usually people to steal them off of your feed. So I would just use a plug-in to put a copyright and a link back to your blog on the bottom of each of your posts in your feed. At least this will get you a link back to your blog.
Cant do anything about it really, can complain to their host, but really its just a part of things, some people will steal everything from another site, even the adsense code, lol, they just take the lot.
I don't know how you go about stopping that at all. But its not so bad, you can still get some recognition from their site's visitors i am sure
Unfortunately, there's nothing you can do. Any one can copy-paste any article from anyone. Even top bloggers suffer from that. All we can do is do the best we can, and prove that we are the originator of a particular post.
Some leechers would not even bother to check what they are copying? The same would turn to your advantage if you wrote posts that included your affiliate marketing link....