Blogger Tips
Tired of blog scrapers and sploggers? Blog scrapers or sploggers are people who steal your blog content and reproduce it on their own blog. I have seen whole posts ripped off. Not just the content but the images too. And to add insult to injury and make it even worse quite often the sploggers blog is ranked more highly in search engine results than the blog that it was ripped off from.
If you want to protect the integrity of your blog and prevent others cashing in on all your hard work it pays to check periodically to see whether your blog is being scraped. There are free tools such as Copyscape that will assist you to detect if your blog is being scraped.
Here are some articles that will help you learn more about blog scraping or blog splogging, protect your blog from blog scraping and take action if your blog has been scraped.
Social @ Blog Tracker - Content Theft
A great article about how to protect your blog from being copied, some tools to identify copied material and some great tips about what to do if you find your blog has been scraped.
Mint Blogger - How to Knock Out a Scrapper in 2 Easy Steps
In this article you will find out how to report a blog scraper to Google Adsense. There is also an explanation about reporting to Google using the Spam Result Reporting Form
Blog Know How - Add a Feedburner FeedFlare to Your Blogger Feed
In this article you will learn how to add a Feedburner FeedFlare to you Blogger Blogspot feed. The article also covers how to protect your feed from blog scraping by adding a copyright notice and notice of author ownership to the FeedFlare which appears below each post.
Blog Herald - 20 Best Free Anti-Plagarism Tools
A comprehensive article about protection, detection, and reporting of blog scraping of both content and images.
Digital Inspiration - File a DMCA Notice of Copyright InfringementCovers how to file a DMCA notice of copyright infringement and includes a sample template
Lorelle - What To Do When Someone Steals Your Content
Lots of great tips in this informative article on content theft and blog scraping. Includes a sample email template to use when approaching the blog scraper about the content theft.
In this article I have put together some resources that will help you as a blog webmaster protect your blog from blog scraping, detect blog scraping and take action if you find your blog has been scraped and your content stolen. If your blog has been scraped I'd love to hear about your experience.
- Add Email This Post Link To Blogger
In this article you will learn how to place an email this post link or button at the bottom of each post in a Blogger Blogspot blog. You may have noticed that some blogs give readers the option below their posts to email the article to themselves or...
- Free Essential Tools For A Blogspot Blogger
Today's post is a collection of free internet tools essential for any Blogger Blogspot webmaster but particularly beginners who wish to improve and grow their blog. While there are lots of tools on the internet that are of use to a Blogger Blogspot...
- Blogger Blogspot Guide To Meta Tags
In this article you will find helpful articles to assist you to add meta tags to a Blogger Blogspot blog. You will also find links to resources such as free meta tag analyzer tools and a list of meta tags and their uses on Blogger. Most webmasters of...
- Blogger Feeds And Feedburner
In this post I have put together some of the best articles on Blogger Blogspot feeds. You'll find information about reasons for burning a Blogger feed, redirecting it through the free Feedburner service and how to burn a Blogger feed. In addition...
- Adding A Blogger Sitemap To Google
If you are having trouble wading through articles about adding a Blogger Blogspot sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools then look no further. This article will show you how to sign up to Google, submit your blog sitemap to Google and make use of Google Webmaster...
Blogger Tips
Protect Your Blogger Blog from Scraping
Tired of blog scrapers and sploggers? Blog scrapers or sploggers are people who steal your blog content and reproduce it on their own blog. I have seen whole posts ripped off. Not just the content but the images too. And to add insult to injury and make it even worse quite often the sploggers blog is ranked more highly in search engine results than the blog that it was ripped off from.
If you want to protect the integrity of your blog and prevent others cashing in on all your hard work it pays to check periodically to see whether your blog is being scraped. There are free tools such as Copyscape that will assist you to detect if your blog is being scraped.
Here are some articles that will help you learn more about blog scraping or blog splogging, protect your blog from blog scraping and take action if your blog has been scraped.
Social @ Blog Tracker - Content Theft
A great article about how to protect your blog from being copied, some tools to identify copied material and some great tips about what to do if you find your blog has been scraped.
Mint Blogger - How to Knock Out a Scrapper in 2 Easy Steps
In this article you will find out how to report a blog scraper to Google Adsense. There is also an explanation about reporting to Google using the Spam Result Reporting Form
Blog Know How - Add a Feedburner FeedFlare to Your Blogger Feed
In this article you will learn how to add a Feedburner FeedFlare to you Blogger Blogspot feed. The article also covers how to protect your feed from blog scraping by adding a copyright notice and notice of author ownership to the FeedFlare which appears below each post.
Blog Herald - 20 Best Free Anti-Plagarism Tools
A comprehensive article about protection, detection, and reporting of blog scraping of both content and images.
Digital Inspiration - File a DMCA Notice of Copyright InfringementCovers how to file a DMCA notice of copyright infringement and includes a sample template
Lorelle - What To Do When Someone Steals Your Content
Lots of great tips in this informative article on content theft and blog scraping. Includes a sample email template to use when approaching the blog scraper about the content theft.
In this article I have put together some resources that will help you as a blog webmaster protect your blog from blog scraping, detect blog scraping and take action if you find your blog has been scraped and your content stolen. If your blog has been scraped I'd love to hear about your experience.
- Add Email This Post Link To Blogger
In this article you will learn how to place an email this post link or button at the bottom of each post in a Blogger Blogspot blog. You may have noticed that some blogs give readers the option below their posts to email the article to themselves or...
- Free Essential Tools For A Blogspot Blogger
Today's post is a collection of free internet tools essential for any Blogger Blogspot webmaster but particularly beginners who wish to improve and grow their blog. While there are lots of tools on the internet that are of use to a Blogger Blogspot...
- Blogger Blogspot Guide To Meta Tags
In this article you will find helpful articles to assist you to add meta tags to a Blogger Blogspot blog. You will also find links to resources such as free meta tag analyzer tools and a list of meta tags and their uses on Blogger. Most webmasters of...
- Blogger Feeds And Feedburner
In this post I have put together some of the best articles on Blogger Blogspot feeds. You'll find information about reasons for burning a Blogger feed, redirecting it through the free Feedburner service and how to burn a Blogger feed. In addition...
- Adding A Blogger Sitemap To Google
If you are having trouble wading through articles about adding a Blogger Blogspot sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools then look no further. This article will show you how to sign up to Google, submit your blog sitemap to Google and make use of Google Webmaster...