@Google – I did check it out after reading these comments and it is a cool plugin but Damian’s does all the same things in a way that suits me better. Perhaps try both to see which you prefer?

@Sonia – I am always in favor of a geek tv reference

@evolve – Most don’t do anything sophisticated. I have been quite successful in tracking down the worst offenders using backlinks and this text

@Joost – Thanks

@Adam – You would be surprised, a lot do retain links, especially when you link images, early in the post and in the footer in this way. Try it

@Joost – I have seen the same thing It’s not a 100% solution but better than nothing, right?

@Google – I did check it out after reading these comments and it is a cool plugin but Damian’s does all the same things in a way that suits me better. Perhaps try both to see which you prefer?

@Sonia – I am always in favor of a geek tv reference

@evolve – Most don’t do anything sophisticated. I have been quite successful in tracking down the worst offenders using backlinks and this text

@Joost – Thanks

@Adam – You would be surprised, a lot do retain links, especially when you link images, early in the post and in the footer in this way. Try it

@Joost – I have seen the same thing It’s not a 100% solution but better than nothing, right?

I’m the author of the plugin mentioned above, if you want to try it and or have feature requests, let me know!

I’m the author of the plugin mentioned above, if you want to try it and or have feature requests, let me know!

thanks for the post, I’ve seen a write up on this plugin a few places and I had some general questions in regards to the title of this post and the benefits of the plugin itself.

In the idea that web scrapers are primitive and only copy content, and all links to other locations on the web, it’s safe to assume that this plugin would work and provide a link back to the orginal content owners website.

However wouldn’t it defeat the purpose of a scraper if all content scraped contained links back to their original posts and were not forwarded to their own content (or scraped site)?

Regards,

evolve

thanks for the post, I’ve seen a write up on this plugin a few places and I had some general questions in regards to the title of this post and the benefits of the plugin itself.

In the idea that web scrapers are primitive and only copy content, and all links to other locations on the web, it’s safe to assume that this plugin would work and provide a link back to the orginal content owners website.

However wouldn’t it defeat the purpose of a scraper if all content scraped contained links back to their original posts and were not forwarded to their own content (or scraped site)?

Regards,

evolve

Google indexes my blog pretty instantly, but I do still worry about scrapes–so many folks report having their own content downgraded to duplicate while the scraper benefits from the credit for the original content. I wonder if there is some timestamp spoofing going on with that. If Google is doing its job properly it should be able to sort it out, but like so many Google things, it seems to be an endless dance.

Probably, like Reavers, this is something I should quit losing sleep over . . .

Google indexes my blog pretty instantly, but I do still worry about scrapes–so many folks report having their own content downgraded to duplicate while the scraper benefits from the credit for the original content. I wonder if there is some timestamp spoofing going on with that. If Google is doing its job properly it should be able to sort it out, but like so many Google things, it seems to be an endless dance.

Probably, like Reavers, this is something I should quit losing sleep over . . .

http://www.joostdevalk.nl/make-the-scrapers-work-for-you/

http://www.joostdevalk.nl/make-the-scrapers-work-for-you/

I had recently switched to parital feeds to try and combat the problem – I didn’t really want to do that but it seems like the only solution to avoiding the possibility that my original post may get flagged as a duplicate.

Putting links back to the original content is fine as long as the scraper script does not remove all links.

I had recently switched to parital feeds to try and combat the problem – I didn’t really want to do that but it seems like the only solution to avoiding the possibility that my original post may get flagged as a duplicate.

Putting links back to the original content is fine as long as the scraper script does not remove all links.

@Andy – The way I understand the bad neighborhoods, it is only when linking out you have a problem because Google people realize you can not control who links back to you or scrapes your content?

@Andy – The way I understand the bad neighborhoods, it is only when linking out you have a problem because Google people realize you can not control who links back to you or scrapes your content?

In fact, I’m more cross when a scraper takes the whole content and links back to me, than when they just take the text, because it’s a link that could potentially count against me.

Mind you, if you’re doing it for human recognition rather than SEO, then it could have more benefit.

In fact, I’m more cross when a scraper takes the whole content and links back to me, than when they just take the text, because it’s a link that could potentially count against me.

Mind you, if you’re doing it for human recognition rather than SEO, then it could have more benefit.