Here are eight WordPress plug-ins that may help you better monitor your blog posts, as promised in yesterday’s blog post 9 Ways to Reduce Scraping and Catch Blog Post.
Simple Feed Copyright Plug-in – This adds a copyright notice at the bottom of feed articles.
©Feed Plug-in – This can add the copyright, a digital fingerprint and/or the IP of the feed reader.
Disclosure Policy Plug-in – This is another plug-in that gives you the option to add a copyright statement, legal disclaimers, and links to related content on your site or content on 3rd party site.
Ozh’Better Feed Plug-in – This allows you to add a custom footer to RSS items. You can include copyright notices or any other links.
Owen Winkler’s AntiLeech Plug-in – This plug-in will help you create a cloaking. It produces fake content for automated software programs that includes links back to your site and sends it only to them. Reminder from my previous post: you should be very cautious when using cloaking methods so you don’t damage your reputation with search engines.
Feed Footer Plug-in – This is another plug-in that allows you to add footers under all blog posts in RSS feed. You can include copyright notices and even include rotating ads under each post.
Digital Fingerprint Detecting Content Theft Plug-in – This plug-in will place a digital fingerprint into posts, tailored to each individual user. The fingerprint is only visible in the RSS feed, not on the website itself.
To learn more, it is best to visit each plug-in site and choose the most suitable one for your blog. The best way to control scraping is to use a combination of the suggestions I shared on my previous post and a really good plug-in(s) of your choice.
The more difficult you make it for the automated programs, the harder it will be for them to steal your content and republish it.
Already using one of these plug-ins? What has your experience been?
