Stop scrapers from spoiling your fun.
I’ve got scrapers on the brain today.
First, I’ll define my terms, if you blog you need to know about this.
A scraper is a site that scrapes your content that you have slaved over and perfected off of your blog, and puts it up somewhere else online. Then they put ads around it, and hope that they will get traffic from your keywords. Traffic that should be going to you!
Google is supposed to know that you are the original, and they are the fakes, but you can’t count on it, as explained by David from XFEP.com here.
Content Scrapers
We all know what it means to deal with spam blogs, but it looks like Celebrity Cowboy has been targeted hard. A search on the popular search engines for specific titles show some very interesting results. It seems that Google has basically given in to content scrapers in this case, and Celebrity Cowboy is nowhere to be seen.
Thanks David by the way. You are my newest addition to my blog reader.
Well, Patrick from Blog Storm is blogging about a solution that he read on Matt Cutts’ blog.
Read more about it on Blog storm, but here are the instructions:
Find your feed-rss2.php file in the wp-includes folder and add the following code to line 39 (in WP 2.3.1). The code needs to be added just after where it says <?php the_content() ?>
<p><a href="<?php the_guid(); ?>">Permalink + Comments</a></p>
Sorry for those for whom that is too technical. As far as I know, I may be one of those people! I’ve given it a try, if I did it correctly or not, well subscribe to my RSS and find out!
