Protect your content and make a bigger profit - Stop content scrapers!

Autoblogging is all the rage these days and the chances are that your well-written thought out articles will be stolen and re-used by another blogger without them even lifting a finger. Because they will not have to think up anything, they can put their time and energy into ensuring they have a better page ranking and there's a chance they'll be making more money than you with your content. This isn't fair obviously and the firt thing that needed to be combatted are Content scrapers which are programs that scour the web for relevant content and then send them to the person running the programme.

There are 3 tools which can help combat people stealing your content.

These are:

Copyscape - A search engine which searches the internet for content which exactly matches yours. Go to www.copyscape.com and type in your URL. Then report any stolen content you find. You can also submit a banner of theirs to your site, which may ward off potential thieves.

Fairshare - This second tool is perhaps the most useful, the majority of content scraping is done through RSS feeds and this website hunts out any work of yours that has been stolen, all you have to do is go to the website www.fairshare.com, add your feed URL (if you are using blogger this can be found in the settings tab), sign up and wait 24 hours. You can then monitor it from then on.

Tracer - The last one is probably the most ruthless and also the most succesful but the efficiency comes at a price, it slows down your webpage considerably. To get this one to work you have to go to http://tcr1.tynt.com/ - then you have to add the java code in to your blog somwehere, this nifty gadget picks up on people copy and pasting or saving photos from your blog and automatically adds a link back to your webpage.