I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
The content of a blog is supposed to be shared with others, so there's no point in hiding it. But once you publish an article it is almost impossible to protect the images/content from the content thieves.
The previous article on BloggerStop will help you in protecting your images displayed on your blog (at least your images will be safe from the novice sploggers). Protecting the text/content is not so easy. But we must try our best to resist it.
First of all, you should copyright whatever you publish on your blog. This is not limited to having a copyright symbol on your blog, but you should properly register your blog and blog-posts. For this purpose I found MyFreeCopyRight as the best free copyrighting service. It gives a unique copyright number to you, and registers each and every blog-post you publish (with date and time of publishing).
If the blog, where your content is being copied, is a .Blog*Spot.com (Blogger) blog, then you must report it to the Blogger Team via this page: Report spam blogs to Blogger.
Google has already updated it's algorithm to find the source of articles and to remove duplicate content from its index. So if an article from your blog is copied, then according to Google, in Google search results your blog will still appear above the plagiarized article. But being a computer algorithm exceptions are also possible.
Read these two articles from BlogHerald and VirtualHosting on fighting plagiarism:
1. Reporting Blog Content Thieves
2. 100 Tips to Defeat Content Thieves
And if the sploggers (spam blog authors) are still not responding to you, then give them some free publicity by adding a "non-linked content thieves widget in your blog".
Image credits: PerpTurkey
23 comments
Write commentsgood info :) will be useful for me.
ReplyReally great info.. I made a Spanish version for the 'Embed Comment Form' in my blog, but put a link to here..
ReplyIn fact, 2 links XD
See ya !!
Brian, that's really so nice of you. I am really glad to see that banner, but actually it wasn't my blog's birthday, it was Blogger's birthday. BloggerStop will be an year older on 22nd Sep. Anyways thanks again....keep visiting this blog !
ReplyRegards
Sai
Thanx for the tip. My friend was looking for this tip..thanx very much.
ReplyCan u tell me how u insert an image after the links..like this
<span style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; line-height: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" src="http://js-kit.com/images/icon10-external-url.png"/></div> </span>
<div><span style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; "><span style=" line-height: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style=" color: #404040;">http://js-kit.com/images/icon10-external-url.png like this
Reply<table class="js-singleCommentBodyT" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica; text-align: left; font-size: 8pt; color: #404040; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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<td style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;" colspan="2">
<div class="js-singleCommentText" style="padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">Thanx for the tip. My friend was looking for this tip..thanx very much.
Can u tell me how u insert an image after the links..like this
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Yeah Jeevan, I got your point.
ReplyActually I use a method similar to this:
http://bloggerstop.net/2009/05/show-file-icons-in-front-of-links.html
But it works for me only because I do not use WWW sub-domain in my blog's url (You'll understand this point once you read that post).
I prefer Copyscape for this one, and this make my blog (Blogger Make Money) protected.
ReplyActually yap, I wanted to include your logo into my blog in appreaciation of what i have learnt from your blog.(huge and so much) I have you under my blog skin anyway.. but your logo.. which one? pls advise.. TQ
ReplyThanks a lottt Brian...
ReplyYou can grab the tiny button from "spread the word" widget in the sidebar, or you may use the attached 125x125 banner.
Keep visiting this blog, and feel free to comment anywhere in the blog !
Thanks again..take care !
Yeah copyscae is ofcourse one of the best copyright guards, but the free features provided by it are too few !
ReplyHi Sai, thanks for this article
Replyand for websites, there is a way to protect your images using .htaccess file,
you can upload your files to your own space on the web and make a .htaccess that prevent image theft, and then put an exeption to your blog !
thus, you can use your images, but others can't hotlink to them
I agree, Copyscape's free features just don't cut it sometimes.
ReplyLet's see...I am trying out copygator presently, it's free and sounds good too. I will update this blog with my experience with it !
Replydear
Replypls tell the url of ur site where u write about index paging widget.I tried about 45 mins............but could not find.Also i hv a blog
madlybangali.blogspot.com
It would be nice if u visit my site & suggest some tips
thanks
my email - subhasish1202@gmail.com
Couldn't get your point buddy...what's an index paging widget? Tell me your purpose and I'll send you the link.
ReplyThanks Sai for the sites.
ReplyUsually I protect my blog images by inserting a water mark in photoshop on the image before uploading them in my article. You can see my blog images for the same :)
Well if it is about protection of (only) images, then I have another nice article on protecting them:
Replyhttp://bloggerstop.net/2009/08/protect-photos-from-getting-copied.html
You may have a look on it !
hi sai i want to get Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Replywhen i'm going creative common.org this form (http://lh5.ggpht.com/__CKvdv1KSP8/S7il6ehzmmI/AAAAAAAAA1I/iswWgHmqqrE/s1600-h/cc.JPG) will be appear.what are the details will be given in marked area in the picture.please explain with screenshot if available. pls help me.
You can get all your answers by hovering your mouse cursor on those blue "i" icons.
Replyi'm not able to understand that.pls hlp me
Replyhi sai,is there any way to remove the blog that stole my content
ReplyYes file a complaint at Blogger-DMCA
Replyhttp://www.google.com/blogger_dmca.html
Read the steps from 1 to 7 and do them....
the blog stealing your content will be off within two weeks.
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