Spam Blogs Republish Your RSS Feeds? Use this to your Advantage

Now this is cool… need to implement ASAP. I always thought you were using some RSS footer plugin to show those links at the post footer.

No plugin and just a simple code… wow, thnx!

oh man what a great coincidence, you came out with this post today…since this morning I am dealing with this scraper. He neither replies nor deletes the content from his blog.

I have reported his website to adsense though.

If you’re a WordPress user and would rather not hack the code, I suggest using the <a href=”http://yoast.com/wordpress/rss-footer/”>RSS Footer plugin</a> from Joost de Valk. Not only can you put a link back to your own blog you can even leave a nice message for the scrapers too :D

“When search engine see this link, they’ll instantly know the real source” => this is completely untrue. I’m pretty sure some splogs or aggregators ranks better than you when you search for the titles of your articles. At least in Google, which prefers freshness to authority.

Hi,
Would you qualify a “shared” web based feed reader that display the feed content as “splog”? Of course those readers do show that the feed is from which source and who holds the copyright and links to the original blog as referred by the link tag.

You can also use this approach to add other subscriber links, such as to your email subscription service. i.e. link for Digital Inspiration.

Awesome tip. Many thanks

<hr /> is for what?

repost for notify

That’s a great post, here are few more methods you can use:
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1. Hyperlinking to previous articles on your blog as you have done in the post above.

2. Including related posts in the feed.

3. Using kontera also can help when they copy content directly[manually] from the blog post as they give hyperlinks like yoursite.com/#</b>

Amit,

This is simply wonderful and really made me happy.

My blog is copied and not responded to my request.

I really don’t know what to do and this tip will

help me .

Thanks alot.

Will it work even if you are publishing your feed through feedburner etc?

Thanks for the great post. Can you explain little bit more about the statement you made here-

“When search engine see this link, they’ll instantly know the real source and therefore splogs, who blindly republish your stuff, will indirectly work towards improving your own search rankings”

Can i find any statement from any search engine that says this?

One of my blog post were being copied word to word to another blog and I posted this problem earlier in your blog comment. In each post, i have links from earlier posts, related posts are there. But still Google drop sometimes original article and boost the copied one.

The idea you shared here is good to find who is original and who is copying, but i dont feel it’s useful when we talk about duplicate contents. You website is still at risk.

Thanks again for nice post.

Regards,
Sunil

Hi, thanks for the tip… How would this work with Feedburner ?

It’s best not to try this as you may get a penalty from google for link farms.

Secondly most of the auto blogs will have html tags off, so the link will never appear.

If you want to save your content from spammers.. leechers and blahs then dont put it online.

Thanks for the tip; I have seen my posts from feedburner feeds on other sites, though those sites seem to be low or no ranked sites…

@faizal : <hr/> tag is just for a horizontal break …

Excellent ! I use copyscape to find if anyone is duplicating my content but could not find any solution to monitor my feeds.Now copy bloggers can be dealt very easily.

Amit agarwal is GOD

Thanks for the nice tips, we can also use wp plugin if we use wordpress (self hosted) if you don’t have php knowledge to edit feed-rss2.php.

here an example wp plugin that we can use to add link and other information to our feed :
link

WordPress users can pick-up the RSS Footer plugin and getthe job done, easy no-tweeking

This is a very interesting tip since there are now a lot of sites that has duplicate contents.

Another thing that a blogger should find solution is the “automatic re-writing of articles” from WP blog feeds. I think there is a software that fetches data from WP blogs then re-writes the whole post.

Thanks. More power.

James

Thanks so much for this information. I’ve been dealing with several sites doing this and shutting them down one by one has been irritating and time consuming.

I’m using the RSS Feed plugin for WordPress, and I use FeedBurner, and the footer does, indeed, appear in my feeds. So, yes, you can use both together.

Good tip. Several of these autoblogs have already linked back to me, but who knows how many have not. Plus I have a garbage PR so I may get flagged as a duplicate of my own work…

This is a great tip. I just received two spam blogs linking back to a post I made today and didn’t know how to get around it. Thanks again!

I’ll have to use that plugin mentioned for wordpress in the comments, instead of hacking the code. I don’t want to cause an issue when upgrading the version.

My approach was to get listed in Google News. That way, Google gets my new articles within minutes, and there’s no chance I’ll get hit with a duplicate content penalty for my own stuff. This obviously isn’t for everyone, though.

splogs want to use your rss feeds and/or snippets to keep their blogs looking active with fresh content. Still a good tip to get more backlinks from it though.

Now I need a way to do this in TypePad!

This really should be a plugin to avoid getting overwritten when upgrading.

I don’t think these site would help your rankings I get tons of these sites that do link back tring to get a track back but the have no links or PR

I think with certain search engines it will help your rankings. There are tons of search engines out there. Each one counts links differently. For example some search engines count links with the no follow attribute and some dont.