Feed Scrapers ,Splogs, Copyright and Plagiarism
As I've said before the only feed scrapers that I tolerate on this blog
are the original ones. By that I mean the wildlife that freely roam in this part of scenic Scotland! Now I know that it's not that pleasant when some of them make impromtu visits our gardens. Some of them can cause plenty of damage like our local Roe deer, Grey herons and rabbits. You can always tell where these locals have been as they leave plenty of visible evidence behind of their visit. At least with the wildlife there are certain things we can do to try to deter them. Feed scrapers leave evidence behind too but it's just knowing where to look for it on the Internet trail and knowing how to deter them!
Wire Above the Gate
Netting over the Pond
Unlike the local wildlife who sometimes breach garden boundaries to 'scrape' for food for survival these scrapers steal your blog posts to try to build links for their spam splogs or for making some quick money for their affiliates or AdSense accounts. Then there are others who steal your images or hotlink to them and by doing so steal your bandwidth. Plagiarism, fair use and copyright mean nothing to any of them.
Hand picking, beer traps or encouraging the birds to have a feast on the splogs slugs and snails.
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Metal squirrel proof feeders rather than plastic ............... and maybe even a little vaseline - would you agree Clare?
Many of you know me from being one of the team at Nature Blog Network and a few weeks ago I was asked by Wren to write a detailed post on copyright and plagiarism. We had been alerted to the fact that one of the blogs on our network was in fact just a combination of scraped material stolen from other bloggers. I can tell you that it didn't take long for that blog to be swiftly removed from our directory and then from Wordpress.
Today my blog post has just been published over at NBN and it's full of lots of useful information. There are resources listed for those who use Blogger, Wordpress and for those that host their own websites. I would suggest bookmarking the post for future reference.
Feed scraping/illegal rip/web harvesting is something we
cannot prevent but it's a lot easier these days to find out if your
original material has been scraped and what to do next.
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory!
Miguel de Cervantes
Click on Copyright and Plagiarism to find out more.
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Interested in this topic? You might enjoy another article I’ve written called
"Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. So they are without excuse." Romans 1:20
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13 comments:
Wow! Such great info to prevent all types of theft. Ha. I will need to bookmark and return. Thank you.
Great post, love all your animal shots too.
Hi Rosie - am impressed with how well informed and up to minute you are with all the scams that blight the blogging world. Thank you for this - and so beautifully illustated too
Laura
Oh that cheeky squirrel! At least now if there are teeth marks on our weather station, I'll know who to blame ;) Maybe I'll need a baffle for the pole LOL. As for blog protection, it gets frustrating sometimes. Seems the scrappers are almost always one step ahead. I do link back, use low res images, and keep an eye on site traffic. I really should watermark photos though, and am off now to register with DMCA.com. Copyscape is only of limited usefulness. Thanks for the tips, and have fun keeping that squirrel at bay!
I always think 'oh, that won't happen to me' but I suppose I really need to be more aware. Thanks for the info.
Thank you for the information. I always had a doubt about some blogs.
The snails look really good in your photos. :) Great post, of course.
Your animal shots are wonderful and they seem too beautiful to be part of the ugly side of scraping.
Thanks for all the information. I never even considered protecting my blog against scrapers. I will definitely do something about it now.
I had already read your other post. Good to have all that info together.
That last image of the squirrel feeding puts a smile on my face Rosie. They are tenacious creatures!
And I will check out the posted link - thanks for the info.
Hi, very helpful, thank you..
Thanks for the alert - I'm going to look into it . . . (Thanks for stopping by my blog!)
If you liked this article please retweet, share and + 1. You're welcome to share some of your own experiences in the comments and I'll catch up with you over the next few days!
Rosie