Scraping The Scrapers With Feed Footer WordPress Plugin

You are a genius!
The scrapper will scrapped by himself !
A nice Idea!
I will install the plug in in my blog. How can I?

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nice trick to prevent people from copying your content for their blog

That's not going to do anything for anyone with even a little bit of regex knowledge.

For example, in php

preg_replace('/Attention:(.*)scraper./','',$string) will remove that quite easily.

You're wasting your time, slowing down your rss feed (if only by a little) and adding in random characters isn't going to help either.

Leslie: john didn't come up with the term. It's been around for ages.

Scrapers are the lowest form of life. How true!!! John, you are a genius in coming up with this term to describe these people

i'm getting some backlinks to some of these wierd sites that have just seemed to have nicked loads of content.

now i understand it, they've taken it from the rss feeds. i'm gonna install this plug in right away. thanks for this article.

Sounds like a good idea but probably doesn't deter anyone from scraping your site.

Why?

Because most scraper sites contain 3 sets of google ads above the fold so I'm sure no one would even see your disclaimer.

What I think it does do is make your readers feel like they've done something wrong because you are making them read your "Rant" - even if they are reading it from their rss reader you are totally distracting people from your purpose by trying to police a few.

I think it's a bad idea.

When you first said about the plugin, it seemed useless to me, but now i understood how can it be used.

I think, the readers of your feed won't like it, if this message appears below every post.

Still no time to try it out this plugin

I don't understand why you care so much about scrapers.
So yeah, they steal your content, in nearly every post you make, you have a few links to oter posts you made, so here you get some links.
Plus, you have a few posts with affiliate links, so more people see your affiliate links.

I only wish my blog was scraped more often, I can use it in so many ways.

Don't Text Link Ads have a similar plugin for their feedvertising feature? Would it conflict with the aforementioned plugin if both are installed?

FWIW, I use a cool plugin called ©Feed which adds a digital fingerprint and the logged IP address of a possible scraper in the footer of the feed. It also aggregates searches for the fingerprint ID you use from various search engines, so you can find out pretty quickly if someone is scraping your content. Orginally written in German, there's an English version that I managed to get working. I LOVE it.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/copyfeed/

:mrgreen:

Awesome post. Thanks for the advice.
To bad the internet has crashed.
Damn scrapers.

Good one John :) the footer msg is really good :wink:

This is interesting. I've seen a few blogs that I read add this and wondered about it. For the most part I'm a knit blogger (there are thousands of us!) and many have problems with scrapers stealing copyrighted content either words, knitting patterns or images.
Thanks for the heads up. I kept forgetting to ask fellow knit bloggers about it.

Thanks John, I've used this plugin. I put my coryright notice on the feed footer. That really help to stop the scrapes or at least add backlink to my blog :mrgreen:

Found you through the Blogger's Choice Awards website. Seems you're in the running for Best Blog about Blogging. Looks like you put out a lot of good info. You should totally add a Brag Badge code. So your thankful subscribers can vote for this site. Good luck! :smile:

I've found scraper software before. It's ridiculous.

Hey, good tip. Might I suggest that you put a auto-generated alphanumeric bit-o-text in the middle (or somewhere) in that statement so that it is different everytime. So that the spammers can't just regex-out that statement...

If there was a "49djhsdj5" somewhere, they wouldn't be able to remove it as the regex will fail...

...or something like that!

And to check if someone already stole your content just enter :

"Attention: Unless you are reading this from a RSS reader, you are reading a scraped feed. This site has violated copyright laws by stealing the content of John Chow dot Com. Please let us know where you read this so we can take legal action against the scraper."

in google.

:mrgreen: :mrgreen:

The web is always changing, so you just gotta wonder how long it will be before they come up with something to combat this too!

But in the meantime, get yer own content! :)

I don't think this plugin will not help to a major extent. You see, scrapers use softwares to pull content form your blog via your RSS feeds. However, these softwares can be programmed to ignore links or only take the first,say, 50 words in the blog entry. In that sense, it will totally ignore the links at the footer of the feed.

I don't think this plugin will help to a major extent. You see, scrapers use softwares to pull content form your blog via your RSS feeds. However, these softwares can be programmed to ignore links or only take the first,say, 50 words in the blog entry. In that sense, it will totally ignore the links at the footer of the feed.

Awesome tool! Look who's laughing now!! :twisted:

Thats a very nifty way to protect your IP John :razz:

I got scraped once by a Christian Promotion Group, they demanded that I'd blog better or else I'd "Live In Sin" for the rest of eternity or something.

Read more about it here

This is one plugin that I really dont have any interest in. Not a fan of scrapers

Thanks for another great plugin, John. I wonder how many plugins I can install in WordPress before it starts affecting performance? :)

Scrapers aren't necessarily a bad thing. The plugin is useful because you can include your web site URL which would help your rank in Google and Technorati.

You might want to vary that message every once in awhile, since the scraper could just write a line or 2 of code to take that out...

I actually welcome scrappers (sometimes). Helped me build massive inlinks launching my site to high rankings. The internal linking within posts carries over to the scrapper sites creating more inbound links.

Scrapers really are a pain in the ass. They are exactly what John says they are and yet you see them being sold all the time. People just buy them and think they are going to cash in with no work involved. Good luck with that. :roll:

useful plugin!

That is a great idea John, I actually would have not thought to do that. Thanks

Burn in hell scrapers! :twisted: