blogs and scrapers

**D* G* <d*@kos.net>**

A while ago in the "blogging world", the topic of "scrapers" came up.   
A bunch of blogs went to part feeds as a result of this in what I  
think was a misguided sense that they could "protect" their content by  
doing so.   (for the uninitiated, "scraping" is where automated  
software links into your blog feed and puts the content of that feed  
up on another website - it "scrapes" the content from your site and  
puts it on its own.)

Site content is not particularly "safe" with only a part feed.   Sad  
but true even though it does look like it "should" be on the surface.

And while I don't want to get into a discussion about blogging and the  
technical nature of this kind of thing or the loss of subscribers/ 
monetization by using part feeds.  Let me simply give you this url  
where you can install a wordpress plugin (only for wordpress users I'm  
afraid) that gives your content an automatic link back from any feed.

In other words, if your site is scraped, you get a link back from the  
scraping site.  This works on two levels.  The first is that you get  
an inbound link - always valuable from the perspective of the Google  
Gawds.   The second is that if you're really determined, you can find  
and stomp scraper sites with dmca complaints by using a "links:your- 
site " search on google or going to Technorati and finding inbounds.

http://www.joostdevalk.nl/make-the-scrapers-work-for-you/

It works nicely.

Doug

Douglas Green
Online Garden Publishing
Blog:  http://blog.douggreensgarden.com
Home: http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com

On 23-Jan-08, at 1:37 PM, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:

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