How to Stop Copy Paste Bloggers from Stealing your Content

Blogging is a beautiful world and if you are honest with it you will definitely enjoy it. But as in this world there are some good people as well as bad people. In blogging world people how are lazy and don’t like to create there own stuff often steal content and images from other blogs and put them on there own blog without crediting you. Also they use Auto blogging software which automatically post articles on there blog when ever you post a blog post. Amazingly some times these blogs are higher than original content owners blog which is a shame. There are some measures that you can take in order to stop content thieves.

Disable Right Click & Selection of text.
This is the first step in order to stop newbie content thieves. Almost 90% of the content thieves simply select all your article data and paste it on there blog and publish it. They don’t even know about how to write or edit code so its very good thing that you disable Right Click and Selection of text in order to stop them. For WordPress there is a plugin called Wp-Copy Protect which will give you the power to disable Right Click and Selection of text in just one click.
Install Feed Pause Plugin.
Most of the time lazy people or bloggers don’t even try to copy paste your content and simply run Auto generated blogs which auto generates content from your blogs feed and republish them automatically. So when you publish an article it will instantly republish on spammer blog. To stop this you have to delay/pause your blog feed so that your original post may first index by search engine and than you publish feed so that spammer republish it after 1 or 2 days. For this you need to install WordPress Feed Pauser plugin. Install this plugin and set the timing of the feed republish time and your are done.
Prevent Hot Linking.
Its not the issue of duplicate content that hurts you but the images of your blog that copied by the spammers. The worst thing is that they use direct link of image which is present obviously on your webhost and hence steal your blogs bandwidth. If your blog has unlimited bandwidth than this might not be a problem for you but for a limited bandwidth site its a serious thing to tackle with. This was happen to me and suddenly internet khazana bandwidth jumped from 100MB per day 1GB per day which was very alarming and eventually i had to pay for extra bandwidth. So i decided to block all the requests generated by other blogs for images. For this you need to put some code mention below in the .htaccess file present in the root directory of your blog. Obviously change my blog name with yours one.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?internet-khazana.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|js|css|png)$ – [F]

Dynamically put Back-link.
As we all know that most of the time copy paste bloggers will not give back credit to you by linking back to you so you have to automatically put a link back to your blog when ever some one steals your content. We know that copy paste blogger are lazy and they don’t even edit code or try to format the posts. So just install WordPress INK – Own your content plugin and every-time when someone tries to copy and paste your content on there blog this plugin will add automatically article link to your post which will give you a back link.
Link in RSS Feeds.
In order to earn credit from Auto bloggers you will need to add your blog link in all your blog feeds so that when ever Auto blogging software fetches your blog feeds it also embeds your blog link and hence you will earn back link from the site. For blogspot its very easy, just add code mention below in the Settings -> Site Feed and bottom of the feed and done.

<hr />
<a href=”http://www.internet-khazana.com”>Internet khazana</a>

For WordPress users you have to add some code in the Functions.php file of your blog theme and update the file.

function embed_rss($content) {
if(is_feed())
$content .= “<p><a href=’”. get_permalink() .”‘>’”;
$content .= get_the_title() .”</a></p>”;
return $content;
}
add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘embed_rss’);