As content stealing becomes easier and easier with the help of technology, there are very few of us who produce original content for the web that haven’t fallen victim to content thieves and scrapers.
It’s annoying. It’s disheartening. It stinks.
For the most part, it’s a time-consuming process to try to prevent others from out and out stealing your content. Personally, I really don’t mind most of the time… as long as I’m credited as the author and there’s a link back to the article on my site.
Unfortunately, most of the people who steal content really do STEAL the content.
In other words, they take the content (your original article) and put it on their own website without any mention of who actually wrote the article or where it came from.
Fortunately, there are a few things that you can do to make it a little more difficult for people to steal from you. The folks over at ProBlogger put together a great article that outlines some of the things that you can do to Fight Scrapers.
In addition, Lynn Terry had a very different way to fight content thieves and scrapers in her article called, “I’m a scum-sucking content thief.”
A very entertaining way of handling the situation!
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