Re: blogs and scrapers

**"* F* L* J* <l*@intrex.net>**

Douglas Green wrote:

> 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.)

Without dragging this out, it seems that you can either allow or deny RSS feeds.
So, if you allow them you have no control of who, where or for what use
your blog content is used by others in their own sites.

I asume this WP plugin at least guarantees equal exchange of blogmatter
and gives you the ID of the blog using your content so you can contact them or complain, etc.

> Site content is not particularly "safe" with only a part feed.   Sad  

What is a "part" feed? I thought RSS feeds were or were not.

> 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 

What if you don't want their content?

> 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.

So, you can use this Google ccommand to discover who is using your RSS feeds?

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

Many thanks, Doug.

Lawrence

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