Showing posts with label Content theft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Content theft. Show all posts

Content Scrapers on the loose, Save your blog

Have you been troubled by Automatic Content Scraping Blogs?
This has been a Big headache for Sincere webmasters and writers in the internet for last few years. Automatic content scapers that use your Website content , Feeds to copy and republish your articles on their Spam Blog ie SPlogs.
Frequently you can come across sites marketing such Splog Auto-blogs that offers you such scraping tools for as low as $60." And Is that what all your Hardwork is Worth?"

Common Nature of Splogs-
1. Usually a wordpress blog
2. Unmanaged template ( theme) with no contact  information and About pages.
3. Mixture site that scrapes from >3 sites of different topics like health, entertainment, diet etc
4. Stuffing Adsense ads improperly over others content. That's the real purpose of such Splogs.
5. Often images pulled directly form the original website.
6. Links may reveal the original website.

How to prevent content theft : Blogging Secrets

How to punish them?
You take hours to write an article, after days of research and months of learning writing skill. But Someone out there may take all the benefit and credit.
Watch out for content thief !!
Next to click fraud , the problem of content theft is blooming and has been a headache of webmasters and writers on the internet. It takes a big effort to write , but just a click or two to copy and steal the content. “Ctr + C” “Ctr+ V” called Copy and paste.
Content theft is very hard to deal with or to stop. But there are ways be can fight back and even take back our credit for writings and articles.

What to do if someone has stolen your content?

If its your original article it is your right to ask that author to delete the post. Tell him about the copyright and ask him to remove the content or you will take necessary action. Action implies- Reporting the webhost to reporting to google to blacklist the site for the crime. But it is not as easy to take action. Lot easier if the ‘Threat’ works.