Useful: How to Prevent Scraping
September 4, 2011
It is becoming more and more difficult to retain credit for digital passages. Have you ever thoughtfully posted to your site only to find you’ve been outranked on your own content? “Fighting Scrapers when Google Won’t: A Simple Guide” provides some easily implemented steps toward prevention of content theft.
The advice fits neatly under the following banners:
- Make regular Updates
- Link back to your site
- Add “Read More” URL inclusions
- Truncate Your RSS.
These are some useful, common sense suggestions. Basically, treat your online work as you would your lunch in an office: write your name all over it. Those relying on screen scraping technology for content are, in my opinion, lazy. Crating original content or providing a service by highlighting significant articles as I am doing in this short write up, the screen scrapers would reduce clutter on the Internet. Many scrapers are taking content short cuts. Please, heed the advice in the “Fighting Scrapers” article. Add author tags, links to your page, clipping a passage to dangle the meat with a “read more” etc.
Sarah Rogers, September 4, 2011
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