So here we are “innocently” spreading our message on our blogs for you all to read and we are public and we are happy to do it! We share the link love with each other, support each other and it’s a big part of our life. We put many hours of time and effort into our blogs providing our readers with original, creative and entertaining content that we love to write about and that we hope you love to read! Right?! Well at least that’s what we’re hoping for! ;-) Some of us don’t earn money from our blogs at all! Some of us don’t advertise and some of us do, which is fine because it’s OUR blogs and we can choose to do what you want with YOUR content! Right?!
Then we realize that there are what’s called “Sploggers” out there who are copying our content and posting them on other blogs with ads earning money from OUR content!!!
You can check out Lynn’s blog today to see what we’ve discovered is happening. Who knows how many other sploggers are doing this without us even knowing!
So what are we “real” bloggers to do? Well there are a few steps that Lynn has taken and we are hoping it’s a step in the right direction, but I’m thinking we have to do something further to “protect” our content as our in a more proactive way. The only thing I can think of at this stage is creating signatures for each post and then linking back to your root blog address every single time. This way, if they are just automatically streaming your content (links included), then the link to it’s true author is there AND it could work in your favour by creating more “link backs” on the internet which could increase your search engine stats. Maybe it will work, maybe it won’t, but it’s somewhere to start until we can figure something else out.
If anyone has any experience or suggestions on how to deal handle this, I definitely welcome your comments and suggestions!
(okay it’s not a great signature, but I’m working on getting the plug-in for WLW! lol)
6 comments:
Good idea Angie! You just reminded me that I used a siggy for a while and then totally forgot about it.
If you know how to create a cute one and make it automatically show up on each post, could you do a how-to post?
Thanks for the post Ang, the bloggers that know about this the better.
The person who is copy my blog posts seems to grab text & pics only. None of the words that I would've linked to other places are links anymore.
And, even if you were to put a signature at the bottom of every post if it is a person actually copying them they would probably just chose to not copy the sig/link.
I don't think there is any real way to get your site linked if they're copying it manually. A robot is another story though.
Jaime: It's really easy to have a signature automatically post with each of your entries. Login to your blog --> Settings --> Formatting --> Post Template - enter the html code to link to where you signature is stored and hit "Save."
Ummmm...can you way more techie people than me do an instruction seminar on this? I thought I was tech savvy...you guys are divas.
Ditto what Laura said. I just type, add the links and photos and hit 'publish'.
'course, I don't even know how to find out if anyone is copying my stuff...
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Hi Angie
Just saw your tweet about Pepsi cravings...have you tried locally made Propeller's Rootbeer(available at Pete's Frootique )?
It is sooooo good and has cane sugar in it and not nasty chemicals!Hope you'll try it-super yum! :)
I had never heard of a splogger before! That's definitely new to me. I'll have to research more info on it!
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