Re: blogs and scrapers

**N* S* <s*@earthlink.net>**

So Doug - have you been scraped?

Nancy Szerlag
On Jan 25, 2008, at 10:06 AM, 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.)
>
> 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:
>
>>
>> Sustainable Agriculture (gardening and farming) ibiblio mailing
>> list: sustag@
>>
>> I had this list created recently as a companion to the permaculture,
>> market farming and seed saving lists
>> hosted by ibiblio. This forum is strictly devoted to learning and
>> practicing sustainable gardening and sustainable
>> farming. It will encompass the usual labels applied to this form of
>> agriculture, biological, biointensive, regenerative,
>> organic, biodynamic and natural.
>>
>> sustag     Sustainable Agriculture
>> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/sustag
>>
>>
>> Market Farming (all forms except chemical-based) ibiblio mailing
>> list: marketfarming@
>> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/marketfarming
>>
>> Market Farming: micro to broadacre ecological, biointensive
>> agriculture
>> Small to large scale, natural, organic, biodynamic, biological,
>> biointensive and sustainable
>> cropping for market and homestead.
>>
>>
>> And info on the permaculture list:
>>
>> Permaculture
>> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/permaculture
>> Permaculture mailing list, hosted by ibiblio.org -
>> -- portal to an expanding global network of landtech pioneers --
>> This forum is dedicated to those interested in the study,
>> practice and teaching of permaculture, a discipline
>> started and stewarded by Bill Mollison & David Holmgren
>> plus hundreds more with varying expertise around the
>> world. Wikipedia permaculture entry:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
>> "Permaculture is a design system which aims to create sustainable
>> human habitats by following nature's patterns."
>>
>>
>> Lawrence
>>
>> --  
>> Lawrence F. London, Jr.
>> lflj@intrex.net
>> lflj@bellsouth.net
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>> Venaura Farm http://venaurafarm.blogspot.com
>> Agriculture, Market Farming & Permaculture
>> http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech
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>> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/permaculture
>>
>>
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