Make the scrapers work for you!

Did something like this on our own blogging platform not too long ago as well. Another benefit, outside the scrapers, is for those importing blogs as notes into their Facebook profiles. Not as great for back links (although the benefit from scrapers is also limited I'd say) that are crawled, but very good for referrals - at least in our case where it links to how to set up a similar blog :)

Probably just a matter of time before all the scraper sites start parsing out the urls; luizen!

Hi Joost

This is a great plugin, thanks :)

Dude, awesome, thanks..

nice plugin! using it. thx

is javascript possible in the rss-footer?

Sweet - one of my favorite plug-in authors & one of my favorite bloggers working togather to take the sting out of geating scraped - nice!!

Thanks for the work that went into this!

This is an awesome plugin! Thank you VERY much!

Great plugin Joost! Now if only it were possible to vary the anchor text... :P

Ok, the idea is nice, but what if a scraper uses strip_tags function to remove all the html stuff?

Nice one, I'd previously been using a hack suggested by Patrick Altoft at http://www.blogstorm.co.uk, this is obviously much slicker, and Patrick led me to your page and thence the download!

db

Thanks Joost, this is just what I have been looking for, up until now I have just been manually updating blog posts which I know have been scraped with keyword links.

Does this mean you are now happy for your blog to be scraped?

I think it's a smart solution. Maybe you could include some javascript to disable mouse clicks if the post does not appear on a certain domain?

Or is that overkill?

It's irrelevant whether one is happy or not about a site being scraped. There is very little you can do to prevent it unless you want to spend valuable blogging time serving cease and desist letters. Much better to make the scrapers work to your advantage than trying to get rid of them one by one (it's like playing wack-a-mole anyway, get rid of one, another pops up). Sciencebase seems to be scraped all over the place and I have tried to get rid of those sites that try to pass themselves off as "the" original site, but for the general news scrapers, you just have to put up with it and count it as more eyeballs seeing your words!

db

Hi Joost,

Good work! Looks like a very useful plugin, I have just installed it and lookforward to seeing if it helps with the SERPS.

Just subscribed to your feed also.

Thanks

Allan Stewart

Thats a cool idea...I'll check it out and see if i can get it on my site fr the authors..they are always asking me about concerns like this.

Will this work if I'm using feedburner for all my feeds?

That's clever Joost, very clever! Cool plugin, thanks for sharing it :)

Great suggestion - I'm using a Feedburner Feedflare called "attribution" now, but when I move over to a WordPress installation (currently on MT), this will be one of the first plugins I install.

Good work Joost! Thanks for sharing it.

Just subscribed to your feed also.

Sam Dodd, using the technorati tags for some important keywords, will help.

Great plugin Joost. Its been working wonders on all of my sites.

Yep this is a good idea but I wonder how long it will be until the scraper sites catch on and block the url's. Until then I will give this a try, nice work.

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Man this is one superb plugin, was just thinking of something like this when I found it.
Will upload it later today, thanks for the plugin

This is great, I've been looking for something like this one. Thanks! Gotta install it tonight..

I am considering to start with plugins develop for a long time.

Thank you for inspiration!

Ah, great plug-in. There isn't much you can do to keep people from scraping your stuff, but why not get some links out of it! :D Thanks

i hate scrapers sites with a vengance!

mainly because i think their adsense is making more money than mine.

You got to love this. These scrapers are killing my sites. I can't wait to see my traffic fly back from this.

Does this work for those who already scrapped my blogs? or only new scrappers?

Looks like a great plugin. I will try it

I do something similiar on all webpages because of scrapers. even though my sites links are relative links. I hardcode some on all pages with the full http :// structure so that as my sites are scraped or more commonly 302 redirected to as belonging on their sites, they unwittingly publish at least some hard coded urls to the original content. I do think it helps safeguard against scrapers.

Scraping has been a big problem, hope this thing fixes it. Thanks!

Since the 2.5 update I've noticed that in the feed the post to the article itself isn't using permalinks but rather links to ?p=xxxx instead.

Hi
Nice plugin, but it doesn't work well with internationl characters (e.g. Polish) :(

Thank G*d I found this post and comments. Every time I read about plugins, I do a 90d turn when I get to the words: code, php, html, etc. This business of scraping is giving me headaches, but the coding stuff doesn't make it any better for me.

At least it's good to know I'm not alone. It was by accident that I discovered 90% of my posts at this particular site [luckily at an early stage]. I thought I was crazy losing sleep googling this scraper and blogging about it. I have learned to reshape my blogging at this point to accommodate the experience...until I could learn any of the good stuff you're all talking about. Thanks!

Awesome idea Joost.

I have installed your plugin, but my results is showing only plain text, no live links.

This is the address of my feed.
http://kingyorkie.com/feed

Any advice appreciated.

Thank you.

Hey Friends!
I have developed a new web directory and need your valuable comments to know if something needs to be inculcated.
It will be of great pleasure to have your valuable comments.

That's great, thank you very much.

Hi
I just installed this but it doesnt appear to change my rss output

Joost, I'd like more text options (and not just a text box) for link back to the post.

As it is now, link back to the post reproduces the post title in the link. This can be confusing for the reader. I'd like to be able to link back to the post, but change the link text.

Can you add that capability to RSS Footer?