I’ve been noticing a number of Auto Blogs, Content Thieves, and SPLOGS stealing my content, word for word, even going as far as stealing my Post Slugs Verbatim! I am going to begin actively changing a number of ways in which I syndicate this site over the next month to attempt to deal with these outcasts.
I’ve recently installed the “Anti Leech” plugin from Owen Winkler and will be considering a number of other changes to my content, including a specific policy with regard to content usage from MusTech.Net. It is very hard to stop these sites from “snagging” your content especially if you use a full RSS feed like I do (Yes, I’m even considering turning that back to a partial). One of the big issues with this kind of vile operation is that legitimate people looking for your content will find it on another’s site and end up getting the benefits from your hard work.
Although it’s relativivley easy for me to find out who is virtually copying my blog information verbatim (I have linkbacks, headers and footers in the RSS feed), it is hard to stop them as many of the sites do not respond to any form of contact whatsoever. It’s very hard to find the actualy IP addresses of those stealing the content because they are using RSS Scraping bot agents that utilize different IP addresses than those of their sites (Even using Feedburner’s tools and my server’s Access Logs presents a challenge with regard to finding them out!).
I would recommend reading Lorelle’s GREAT article on “What Do You Do WHEN Someone Steals Your Content”as a starter for anyone experiencing this type of illicit activity. I will also keep you posted as to what steps I’m implementing over the next month or so to thwart these undesirables.
Darren and Joseph are back on the air and kicking it hard! In this episode they talk about getting their new campaign to get 100 music educators blogging by 2009 among other great topics!
I’ve created a ten minute tutorial to help you understand the very versatile feed-reader, BlogBridge. This tutorial covers the following topics:
Adding RSS feeds
Sorting Articles
Importing an OPML feed
Exporting an OPML feed
Creating a smart feed
Changing View Sizes
I highly recommend blogbridge to become your favorite RSS reader. It is free, open source, cross-platform and extremely powerful. If you are not using a feed reader currently, it’s a great program to begin with.
Flash BlogBridge Tutorial Info: To view the flash file online, without downloading it, click this link. The flash tutorial is not quite the quality as the AVI one, but it is still passable. You may also download the flash tutorial by clicking this link.
I’ve taken a tip from Will and am going to embed the PowerPoint presentation I spoke about in a previous post into this post. If you are interested in the “power” of R.S.S. or even “what it is”. This PowerPoint is a good start.
This PowerPoint is licensed under a creative commons 3.0 license. You are free to share it for non-commercial use as long as you don’t modify it and attribute authorship.
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