Protecting Content

[Nomad Blogger]

Hi everyone, long time

Will keep it sort and simple, I was just wondering, how do you protect your content when blogging? From being copied by others?

Any tools? Methods?

[once janister]

Use myfreecopyright.com. They help give you indisputable proof that you are the owner of your content. If you have Wordpress, use the Blog Protector Plugin, it disables right click/copy paste functions on your site.

[bloggerican]

I don't know of any method that can reliably stop anyone one (especially those that are very determined) from plagiarizing your blog post contents.

I suggest that you don't worry too much about it and just live with the fact that any public content will be plagiarized. The only effective way to stop anyone from copying your work is for you not to publish it at all. You catch my drift?

Anyway, I'm sure that you've heard of the quote that says, "imitation is the highest form of flattery". Not that you should be happy but just don't lose sleep over it.

[richard.liso]

I don't think there is a reason to be afraid. If someone copies your content, it is only a signal for you how good your content is.

[RazorCookie]

Originally Posted by richard.liso

I don't think there is a reason to be afraid. If someone copies your content, it is only a signal for you how good your content is.

Unless it`s a scientific research or something similar i totaly agree.

Let them share... sooner or later people will find the original author.

[LloydBurrell]

You can't actually stop it. The best way I've learned by now is to keep your content as individualized as possible. Changing and adapting such content may prove time consuming and futile.

[exiled]

That is just not possible. And even if you post an image with text so it doesnt get scrapped by rss feeders someone could just scan and convert it to text. That way you would not get search engine traffic either.

Do this test, copy a big blog portal post title like techcrunch, paste it in google and see how many times it has been duplicated.

[Torkona]

hmmm.. thats a hell of a good question. put a big watermark on your whole site :-)

I try to not think about it.. im not posting to worry about anyone stealing, I have the thinking really 'what I am currently posting, someone probably already has'.

its the internet, there is stuff all over the place! :-)

..especially when someone like lady gaga dresses up in an egg, then everyone posts about it hehehe

[OMPundit]

You can't stop people from stealing your intellectual property. I have it happen all the time with my design and with my writing. BUT here's the MOST important thing, you HAVE to make sure that you get first credit for it being your content with the Search Engines. I'm not going to go into the SEO reasoning behind this but trust me when I say it's imperative, it lessens the damage done to you by the copycats and the traffic you might lose. There are several ways to try and do this, the most common is to either use a plugin(s) that submits your new posts immediately upon publishing them to the search engines to crawl or to have your site feeds in the webmaster tools/toolboxes for the biggies Google, Yahoo and MSN. I personally use both methods.

[marky]

Use CopyrightSpot is a no-hassle tool to simply know who has copied your content. Even though their results are not that accurate, but its still very useful as they tend to include more results, rather than less. They also offer you a CopyrightSpot badge to display on your website in order to warn the violators.