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| sikandar |
 Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:26 am Post subject: Blog Content Theft |
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How do I know if my blog content is being stolen
hello!
i am a newbie to blogging world.i write articles on my own but i have heard by many of blogging friends that their posts being copied by some other users.my question is,is there any way by which we can secure our posts from being copied?? if anybody does..how would we be able to know about it??and what shd be done if i found it to be copied??and how about reserving copyrights over blog or posts??will that help if so then please tell me how to reserve it cos i don't know even that n i m feeling very insecure about this thing please help me out!..i know there are so many howz,whatz in my query but bear with me i m a newbie..
thank you
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| sapphiresilver |
| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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There's not much you can do. You can put a copyright notice on your feed posts and that might help a little, because some splogs find feed content and automatically add it to their blogs. You could also set your feed to be a summary instead of the full post so that they won't get the whole article that way.
And if you find that someone has copied your articles, you can contact their host and see if they can take it down.
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| sikandar |
| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:41 am Post subject: |
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| yea but how to reserve rights over feed??i really don't know anything about this help me out please!and what if i don't know come to know about the theft??how to find out that?? |
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| Rose |
| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:49 am Post subject: |
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Well, the first step is to find out if your content is being stolen.
There are many ways for searching for stolen content.
To find copyright violations of your blog content you can use
Copyscape
Google Blog Search
Google Advance Search
IceRocket Blog Search
Publishing your RSS feed on full makes it much easier for the scraper, therefore I recommend setting your RSS feed to short.
If you are using Wordpress I recommend that you install the Feed Copywriter plugin and add a copyright message to the bottom of your feed.
You can also do this in Blogger without the plugin.
If your content has been copied, I suggest sending an email requesting the content be removed.
It is good to use a Creative Commons license on your blog, but that won't stop them from copying. You might also want to add a copyright disclaimer to your blog too.
Splogs on Blogspot can be reported to Blogger through the Report Spam form. If they are using Google Adsense on their blog, report them to Google Adsense.
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| sikandar |
| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:02 am Post subject: |
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Thank you maam admininstrator but i am really dumb in all these so would be putting some more silly question to you ..hope you bear with me.well,you have said that i can create a copyrights message on my page but i don't know how to??and wordpress is having an extra pluggin facility than blogspot that means it protects the content better than blog spot?also what is an rss feed how to get it done and as suggested by you i have been to settings in blogspot and made my rss feed" small is that what you meant??
i have been to one of the links provided by you for copyright violation and "copyscape" says it does protect so shall i go for it to subscribe it??
i know i know my queries or very sillly but help me out please,i would be heartily thankfulll |
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| Rose |
| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:23 am Post subject: |
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Copyscape does not "protect" you from being copied. It finds sites that have copied your content without permission.
Are you using Blogger or Wordpress?
You can add a warning banner from Copyscape to your blog.
Select the banner you like most and Copyscape will generate a code for the banner. Click on Add a “HTML/Javascript” element on your blog and paste the generated code in the “content” section.
To add a copyright to your blog you can use the copyright notice generator to generate a copyright for your blog.
Click "Add a Page Element" in the footer section of the Layout, chose HTML/Javascript and click "Save to blog". Paste the code into the box and click "Save."
If you choose to publish on full, including the entire post in your feed, then you can include a copyright statement and a link to your blog in the feed.
Click on settings , site feed and scroll to the bottom where it says feed item footer.
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| sikandar |
| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks A lot !you been so helpful and i really like this site for aliens to blogging field(like me)and appreciate the effort put inn by you..well,i have done with 'a copyrights generator' and an add from 'copyscape'. and for your information i am in blogger not wordpress and previously you have recommended to not to allow full feed''so i have chosen to go for ''short'' also i would not like to include full text in my feed?so what i had require to do for it..(i see people adding more'' to their content is tht what you meant by that?)...and wordpress has an extra copyrights plugin facility with taht keeping in mind would you recommend me to blog on wordpress??or i can still be with blogger??
The last para of your tutorial went above my head like i have come across the location in settings specified by you but didnt understand'''how to include a statement with a link to my blog in the feed"" i mean in html again??an example in this case would really help...but it all depends whether you suggest me for full or short feed??...yes i am dam confused...
Thanks A lot for spending quality time on my queries |
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| erikko |
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