Protection against theft of content

Stealing content from blogging is still a serious problem. One way to combat them described Sergei Koksharov in his blog article how to deal with sploggers, effective method. But it seems to me that it still is not as effective. I propose a different way, like to steal your content into a small benefit.The essence of the idea is simple. In the Post put a link on your own. Then all those who automatically takes the content and inserts its splogs, most of which will be the default "inadvertently" put links to you. Will you increase backlinks that will allow you to slightly raise your credibility of your pages.
Realization for wordpress as follows.
Finds in the theme file single.php and look for it the following lines:

<?php the_content(’Read the rest of this entry &raquo;’);?>

and

<?php comments_template(); ?>

Between them you need to insert the following code:

<p><a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a> - <a href=”http://yoursite.ru”>Site name</a></p>
Thus the code will extract the file single.php and look like this:

<?php the_content(’Read the rest of this entry &raquo;’);?>

<p><a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a> - <a href=”http://yoursite.ru”>Site Name</a></p>

<?php comments_template(); ?>

Italics highlight the code that you need to insert your own. The result has been tested in one of my blog about creating websites. Based on the RSS reader, links are displayed as I should.

Source http://www.terehoff.com/2009/03/protection-against-theft-of-content-is-another-issue/

 

This is very usefull but I have one question, will it not hurt my seo?

 

If a was to steal content (and generally edit), I would paste it in notepad first to remove all formatting. Also I don't think that a link is something that gets unnoticeable except if a monkey is copy/pasting your content.

 

Most spamblogs involves less than one human being on a very sporadic basis checking the contents - most is done by parsing RSS-feeds and such. So "pasting it in Notepad" and such is probably not done that much...

 

Just wanted to add what I said in the other thread started, with exactly the same title (found here: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1266299 ):

Might be a bad idea.
If these "splogs" get a lot of information from your page, and spawns a lot of in-links, then it might actually reduce your rating on Google - especially if the offending site has a very low page-rank (which it probably will have, if it is a spammerpage) - Google does not only count the number of in-links, it also takes into the equation where those links come from.

Just my 2 cents