How To Deal With Blogging Content Theft - Four Powerful Tips
Article marketing is one of your biggest investments. Unfortunately, copyright violation is so rampant in the Internet. It is very easy to duplicate any online article and post it on other sites. Almost everyone does that one way or another for instance by including excerpts of articles from other websites without acknowledging or attributing the source of the information.
Don't be surprise that even well established Internet marketing Gurus are 'plagiarizing syndicated content' to post on their business portals. Some of them get around content duplication issue by rewriting it, a subtle way to cover the tracks of blog content theft.
Google detest plagiarism, but it can't stop people from going around raiding information from others, both legally and illegally so to speak. It is important for you to take necessary precautions to protect all those quality articles that you produce from being plagiarized.
Stealing Content With Autoblogging System
One simple way to extract content from a site that generate RSS or Atom feed is by using the appropriate feed reader. Autoblogs are the prime culprits as far as copyright infringement is concern. The majority of autoblogs are configured to scrape articles and news from various feeds.
Include Copyright Details In The Header Or Footer Of The Content
One practical and simple way to deal with this problem is to Include some form of digital water marking or embed your links in the website feeds. Essentially you want to leave a trail, signature or link back to your site. In that way even if the author biography box is left out, the reader will still be able to locate the originator through the hyperlinks located in the header or the footer of the article. There are many free Wordpress plug-in that allows you to do so.
Disable Right Mouse Button Click
You can make use of scripts (for instance Java scripts) to disable the right mouse click function as well as the copy image function. This method may discourage people from trying to use the mouse to copy and paste articles. On the other hand, it might cause inconvenience to those who wish to copy links in your content for future references.
Report To Wordpress.com or Blogger.com
If those blogs are hosted on Blogspot or Wordpress free platform services, you can notify the respective administrator or the PR relation to inform them of copyright violation. Actions will usually be taken against such blogs.
There are many other practical and simple techniques to safeguard your content. For instance, here's another two powerful tips to combat content theft.Â
Summary
Content theft involving digital copyright infringement is detrimental to all those who produce genuine quality unique contents. Such malpractices impact the bottom line of those who produced original work.
You can either stand back and let all the hard earn money that you deserved siphoned off by others or you can take action to safeguard your digital contents. The choice is yours, the battle is yours.