One of the biggest annoyances of blogging, is content theft. Especially when the theif doesn't give proper attribution to the original source.
We have all heard of Sploggers, blogs that run a plugin that automatically pulls content from the RSS feed of other blogs and posts the content in full as though it were their own.
Not only is this an irritant, but it hurts SEO wise as now there is duplicate content and typically the original author gets penalized.
Contacting Sploggers typically doesn't result in the issue being reslolved as in most cases you will not find a contact form and if you do, most of them don't care enough to stop or at least add the source of the original post.
We have found a few ways to combat Sploggers:
TYNT
TYNT is a FREE service that monitors all of your content and automatically adds a linkback whenever someone uses it elsewhere. This not only increases traffic to you because of the backlink, but can also help with improving Pagerank.
Summarized RSS Feed
Another way to help combat it, though not the most preferred, is to reduced your RSS feed from full content to summarized content. Be careful with this one as it will also annoy your readers.
Feed Footer WordPress Plugin
Another way is to add a copyright message to the bottom of your RSS feed, though not everyone abides by copyrights, it does give you more leverage is getting the duplicate removed.
You can grab the plugin over at Blog Clout.
Stop Content Theft Buttons and Badges
One of our favourite bloggers, Lorelle, has made some buttons and badges.
Blocking RSS Scraping
You can use .htaccess to stop hotlinking of images and to also block the IP if you have it of the scraper.
Plagiarism Today has put together a fantastic write on how to do both of these.
Copyscape
Copyscape is a free service that monitors your content and alerts you via email if it is being used elsewhere, giving you the opportunity to verify if proper attribution is being given.
Getting your content removed
Lori's Web Design has done a great write-up on finding duplicate content and steps you can take to have it removed the proper way.
What are some of the ways you stop content theft?
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