I agree! Thats the benefit of RSS is that you can improve your backlinks - the only time this pisses me off is when they remove the links.
The best way i feel to keep safe your RSS feeds are as follows: 1. RSS feeds are important, if some one syndicating that will add value to your blog. SE's also love RSS feeds. so dont mess with it any way. 2. instead of providing full RSS feeds, provide few words as summary of contents. This can be done easily with WP and other blogs. Even if some one scrapping your RSS feeds, they will be getting only few words as summary. 3. Their are Plugins exist in WP that allows you to add your copyright notice within the RSS feeds. I suggest http://www.numly.com/numly/wordpress.asp is a great plugin which generates ESN Id's for your every post. 4. Read Angshumans blog post here http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/...add-copyright-message-to-your-rss-atom-feeds/ This is one of the best article that describe the things in a better manner. Hope this helps.
I think that you can take advantage of guys scraping content by putting links in your post. In that case you can build some nice links with no efforts.. you cannot avoid being scraped if you have a RSS feed going, imho!
Good advice. So this is what I did. I changed my feed so now it cuts off after 255 characters - that's the choice Blogspot gives, "full" which is the entire story, or "short" which is the first paragraph or first 255 characters. And then I changed the way I write the posts with the summary and the links I want scraped in the first paragraph, and push the other content, photos, etc. back so they don't get scraped. Then I looked at the feed with Google's blog reader. Just the first paragraph now shows up, so that's what I wanted. But a problem - seems the links are removed in the "short" feed, although they are all there in a "full" feed. I suppose this is a Blogspot artifact and probably not something other blogging software does?
@sipltech, thanks for that link. Pretty interesting discussion over there of this issue of scraping feeds and the Wordpress plugin he created to append a copyright notice to non-excerpted feeds.
Hell, I thought that was what feeds were for. To syndicate your content to other sites.Somebody please correct me if I am wrong. I assume the problem is they are presenting it as if it were their own or in a way that you do not approve of. Maybe add credits and and copyright statements throughout your posts...
Yess! Also dont discount Numly's plugin. It's like a gem. Anyone click on ESN no. will get the full information on who and when owns the posts. The data shows like this: Document Name: Document Description: Author: Chris Matthieu - Contact Author [Your name and contact link here.] Publisher: Chris Matthieu [Your name here.] Licensee Name: Chris Matthieu [Your name here.] Licensee Email: [Your email here.] Reference URL: [Your URL here.] Copyright: All Rights Reserved Registration Date: 1/21/2006 8:38:22 AM UTC Views: 13569
Exactly. Like including my full post and saying that I posted it there. And surrounding it with all kinds of porno ads.
Some of us have feeds that are for the personal use of our readers, but are not licensed for the commercial use of others. I'd be happy to give permission to individual webmasters if they ask, but I don't particularly want my feed associated with a MFA site. Of course it's best that you state your license conditions somewhere in your feed, since many scrapers assume that "if it's out there it's mine unless you tell me it's not".