How to protect yourself against Blog Post Theft and Splogs!
Remember I did a post on how to protect yourself from Pagerank loss and Splogs?
Well today I will reveal another secret that can protect yourself against Blog Post Theft and Splogs.
The secret?
Use tags but hide them using the following code:
<span style="display: none">
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Now, some people might worry that this might go against Google’s ToS policy but as long as you give them a sitemap using the sitemap plugin, there’s no worries.
What does it do?
Well, every time some splogs “scrapes” your content, they will also scrape your “invisible” links. Now, let’s say you have 10 tags. Each tag by the way points to something like http://zedomax.net/tag/web20.
So every time a sploggers scrapes your content, they also give back backlinks to you as many tags you put on that post.
This should be good since your scraped content now automatically gets linked back to your blog so the end result?
Even if splogs steal your content, Google will award you and give you higher Pagerank since everything is pointing back at you.
To do this, I highly suggest you use the Simple Tags plugin and do the following as seen here:
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To protect against scrapers who only scrape the top of your content, you can even add your tags to the top of your content. But I think this should be good enough for most splogs as full page content scraping is the one you need to prevent the most.
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May 15th, 2008 at 11:14 am
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June 11th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
wow…that is a really great tip. Thanks! The problem of content scaping is really getting out of hand.
February 16th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Hi there that is really good info just what I have been looking for. I am a newbie blogger but have noticed in the last week that my posts etc seem to be appearing on other blogs. I have to confess I only realised what a splog was two days ago. Live and learn!