How do I block Feed Scrapers from stealing my blog feed??

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by autorave, Mar 27, 2007.

  1. #1
    I'm aware of all the copyright Wordpress plugins available which allow you to fingerprint and put up copyright notices.

    I'm primarily concerned with how to block out the content thief and stop him/her from scraping the feed in the first place.

    Not interested in running partial feeds so anyone know what code I should add to the robots.tx file to block a specific domain or IP address?
     
    autorave, Mar 27, 2007 IP
  2. jhmattern

    jhmattern Illustrious Member

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    Then why not just turn off full feeds in WP admin?
     
    jhmattern, Mar 27, 2007 IP
  3. hmansfield

    hmansfield Guest

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    Isn't there an advantage to having your feed, fed to different sites.
    It links back to your site doesn't it, or are they just stealing content without the courtesy of giving your site credit?
    Just curious.
     
    hmansfield, Mar 27, 2007 IP
  4. autorave

    autorave Peon

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    I'm referring to websites that repost the entire content from your blog without a single linkback or credit.

    I meant to say that I'm not interested in running partial feeds, not full feeds. :)



    So anyone know what I should do to my robots.txt file?
     
    autorave, Mar 27, 2007 IP
  5. hmansfield

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    Yeah, I can see that being very crappy.. I haven't had that problem yet, but I would be interested in the answer also.
    Good luck for a solid answer, on this one.
     
    hmansfield, Mar 27, 2007 IP