Do you cringe when you see your content repeated verbatim on some other site? I do.. but not as much as I used to. After WebProWorld started syndicating my posts I started seeing my content appear in some weird spots. The spots didn’t attribute anyone as the source but they did leave the article links intact. The most egregious scrapers I chase down but for many people reposting the content were simply referencing it. After some thought I decided to reference my older material more often in my posts. Others use this tactic often but I had never given it much thought. Now I get some deep backlinks to my site and the mostly innocent “scrapers” get to reference my posts. A win.. win.. for everyone.
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| Filed under: Misc — Scott @ August 23, 2007 12:31 pm |
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Deep linking to older posts can also help generate links if your feed gets re-posted. .
The WordPress Feed Footer plugin can also help.
http://www.johnchow dot com/rss-feed-footer-wordpress-plugin/
John Chow has a Full-Feed, so it’s easy to scrape and re-post directly from the feed. John has this message and link in his Feed Footer.
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.
Yeah I wrote a similar plugin that lets me do that to. That footer message is brilliant!
[...] Link to Yourself [...]
Funny. I started noticing the same thing after WebProWorld picked up my blog. I was frustrated at first too, but just like you I now make sure to include a few links to deeper content in every (or most every) post. I delete the trackbacks to the scraped post, though. I figure if I’ve contributed by letting someone grab my content without permission I don’t also need to give them a link.
I’ve noticed that my older posts get considerably more notice from my deep linking efforts than from readers simply exploring my archives. And I’m always mindful to keep that deep linking going deeper - that is, I most often deep link to my posts that contain deep links. My aim is to keep the readers clicking to dig deeper & discover more.
More than anything else, I like the idea that this might breath a little new life into older posts that never seemed to get the attention I had hoped for when they were first published.