but what i am now concerned about is what you said about a competition copying a portion of your latest blog post and then re-posting it to their own (although they link back to the post) that might hurt ranking in googles index.

one of my blogs where i regularly post was being scraped like what you disclosed in your response to jonathans comment. at first i didn’t pay attention to that, but now that you said the danger of it, i have to keep a close eye on it.

thanks and you got a fan in me.

manuel
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To your question:
There are several scripts available out there which can grab contents from several websites through RSS feeds and post them on their owner website in real time, meaning as soon as you make a post in your blog, the scrappers blog will be updated too, wp-robot can be taken as an example for this one, also there is chance that search engines like google may tend to look at syndicated content first and index them, considering your own orginal content to be duplicate. So allowing only excerpts can prevent this problem as you will hold the majority of the content.

Hope that clarifies your doubt.

Regards and have a great day!

To be sincere the only reason why I’m subscribed to your RSS feed is cos I’m getting some dofollow and comment luv for my efforts.
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Thank you for your views on this subject, fairshare is something new to me or I never heard of but it seems interesting I just visited their site, I would try it out on of my blogs.

Regarding disabling right clicks and selecting texts, yes I don’t want my users to have any problem with selecting texts on my blogs, but there are people out there who want to have such feature enabled in their blog. Once I had this problem with one of my client’s site where our competitor used to keep an eye on our new site, as soon as we used to make a new post, he just used to steal our post and publish it on his site, of course Google indexed his content first as he had more PR and popularity and our contents were seen as duplicate of his work, Although we managed to notify Google regarding this issue and found ways to avoid the issue. There are few webmasters who tend to feel they are more secured by blocking people from selecting their texts.

Blocking right clicks is another feel good factor for those who use blogs which has lots of images in it.

I am not suggesting you should imply all the methods suggested here, the choice is left to the users to select what they like the best.

Over all I feel good that I can learn something from you, thanks for not in line with me on some points, it brings in more light and more views in to the issue which I like and its something I am always open for from my users. I don’t expect my users to agree with all the points I make here, rather I would like them to share their own experience and views too.

Thank you so much for your comments and you got a great blog there

regards

In my experience, short RSS feeds are a waste. According to Feedburner they don’t get any more clicks and the protection they provide is minimal compared to the annoyance they give users. Many will not subscribe to any short RSS feed. I would instead use FairShare (fairshare.cc) to track your feed rather than truncate it.

Your third suggestion is a good idea and one I should probably recommend to others!

Your fourth is one I strongly disagree with. I use right clicks all of the time to navigate the Web (forward and back) and there are many legitimate reasons to select text. I do it to bookmark where I am in an article and also to copy names and so forth when linking to a story. These measures make me go elsewhere.

I noticed you aren’t using it on your site and I’m glad for it.

Finally, the PictPocket plugin is a new one to me that I’m going to look at later. Thank you for the link.

On that note, thank you very much for bringing attention to this issue. Though I would advise differently in a few areas, you’ve got some great ideas in here.

Thank you very much for your work!
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