Hi guys, in one of my blog - a copycat asks me permission to copy my post and promises to link back to me. This is what they normally say: I really liked this post. Can I copy? Thanks in advance. How do you deal with this? Is there any benefit for us here? Somebody does this also without asing permission - I just see it in the track back.
Give them an excerpt of the article to post to insure that any readers will click through. There is benefit if he provides the link, but I suspect that he does this all over the web and never writes his own stuff. There is a word press plug in, Zemanta that installs a "reblog" button at the end of your posts, for others to blog about your articles respectfully.
First of all, be happy that the copycat is asking for permission. You can allow the copycat to copy all the contents of your post, as long as he will include there that you are the originator of that content. Your resource box should be very attractive just like submitting in the article directories. However, if his blog has more quality and relevant links then your post will suffer the search engines. So, a better way is to allow him only to put an excerpt then pointing to your post but again with an attractive anchor text. Either way, it can help you because of free promotion but only for social readers and less from SE visitors. About stealing content, there's no 100% guarantee that you can protect your contents with any tool that you use. If there is, then all of us are now using it and that designer will be super rich. Therefore, the best thing that we can do is to increase our quality and relevant backlinks. Make them as unique as we can that easily be identified to our own style and blog. So if someone will copy our content, then he will be the one to suffer and not us.
Thank you so much Guardian Angel - that's very useful info. I did checked this person site and his content is all copied so his/hers won't be considered a better site right? What do they actually earn from copying from someone else?
Adsense, affiliate marketing, etc. I think here is a sample of what you're saying - http://articlespecialist.blogspot.com/ He has an article directory, but chooses the ones that passed his very strict qualification and posts them on his blognetwork. I used to submit my articles to him though.