Comments on: Two Tools that Help Protect Your Blog from Content Theft (Scrapers)

By: RaiulBaztepo

RaiulBaztepo — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:50 +0000

Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language ;)
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo

By: Kikolani

Kikolani — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:34:30 +0000

Right now, all I have is the RSS footer, and I usually link to a lot of my other articles throughout my posts if possible. I hope that will prevent the auto-scrapers from stealing my content without any credit to its source.

~ Kristi

By: Shiftos

Shiftos — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:42:34 +0000

I find that the Antileech is good. The only thing to watch for is that it cannot change the DB table prefix. Otherwise it’s great.

By: BloggerSavvy

BloggerSavvy — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:40:19 +0000

@Scot Mahler – In the beginning I was not aware of all the resources that helped. I was frustrated and had a steep learning curve to figure out how deter an “fix” my stolen content. In many respects that blog was a true learning environment – immersion – Yikes!

Also, check out @plagiarismtoday on twitter. His site is dedicated to copyright related issues – tons of resources!

By: BloggerSavvy

BloggerSavvy — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:36:14 +0000

@Jonathan Bailey – Thanks for the feedback. I’ll have to keep a close eye on those two then and see if I find any challenges. Thanks for mentioning Fairshare as I’ve never heard of them. I was not aware that Feedburner tracked uncommon uses, thanks for the heads-up on that.

I looked though your site by the way and was quite impressed with the resources and content. It really is chocked full of goodness, I was impressed! Thanks for a great resource. :)

By: Scott Mahler-Datex Media

Scott Mahler-Datex Media — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:20:38 +0000

Sadly, there will always be people that want success without any effort. Stealing is never good, and it’s nice to see there are tools out there that help alleviate this problem, but life being what it is, theives will never go away completely. Thanks for sharing the tools that can help.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:20:21 +0000

Ok, lots to talk about. First, the two plugins mentioned.

1) Antileech – I’ve heard mixed things about this in terms of RSS scraping. Some think it walks on water, some say it doesn’t do much. I don’t know how it works with 2.7 but there doesn’t seem to be much harm in it.

2) Copyfeed has had some serious issue with 2.7 that I read. I don’t know if it is all installs or just some. You can simulate the digital fingerprint element with feed footer or even a FeedBurner feed flare.

Real fast, some other tools I recommend:

Fairshare (fairshare.cc) – Lets you give it your RSS feed and it will produce another feed of matches the system it detects with info about the matches. Works very well and is both free and easy. Works with almost any RSS feed.

Whoishostingthis (whoishostingthis.com) – A great site for finding the host of any domain. Very handy.

FeedBurner Uncommon Uses (feedburner.com) – Works great for tracking “uncommon” uses for your RSS feed, including aggreators and outright scrapers.

Hope that this helps! Thank you for the great article!