Automatically stealing topics is the biggest concern that affects the site manager, and the reason is because some people exploit some of the malicious methods spread in BlackHat SEO in the process of taking the lead in others’ work. Today we will learn how to protect your site’s content from being stolen and also how to stop the Content Scraping process from within your site’s control panel.
Topic Contents Toggle What is Content Scraping?
How do I know that the content of my site has been stolen? How should you deal with content thieves? Create a .htaccess file. How can you benefit from content thieves? What is meant by Content Scraping? The meaning of this word in Arabic is (collecting content). This word is often accompanied by a set of tools and add-ons that help the content thief turn theft into an automatic process without any intervention on his part. After Internet technology has reached advanced stages in the past few years, the process of collecting content has become simple and easy for everyone. All you need is a domain on which you install the WordPress platform and use a free template, which are widely spread templates on the Internet, and then install some add-ons that will work to retrieve content from other sites automatically.
At the Arabic SEO Institute, we receive requests on an almost daily basis for how to stop these theft operations, and today we decided to raise this topic to cover this sensitive point that may harm emerging sites very greatly. How do I know that the content of my site has been stolen? Detecting stolen content is one of the first steps in the process of reducing content theft, and also raising the value of the content and your ranking in the search process, and this is done in several ways. Search for the title of your article on Google. This method may be useless if you decide to search for a popular article that many sites have written about, but in most cases this option is ideal for finding sites that stole topics from you and placed them on their pages.
Trackbacks - The tracking feature in WordPress The WordPress platform provides you with a tracking feature that alerts you if someone moves a topic that contains an internal link to you. (The other person must have activated this feature as well) All you have to do to work with this feature is focus on building internal links in the topics that you publish. Search Console – Webmaster Tools Webmaster Tools, or as it has become called Search Console, may be very effective in detecting sites that are copying you through a simple step, which is displaying the links coming to your site.
In the previous step, we mention that we have placed internal links in our exclusive topics, and whoever will transfer these topics automatically will automatically build a backlink coming to our site, as in the picture: Automatic copy sites are often present in the first three results, depending on their number, and the backlinks coming from them may reach hundreds and sometimes thousands. Here you will be able to identify these sites with ease. feedburner – Google feeds service. Activating this service on WordPress platforms enables you to identify illegal use of your site’s feeds through an option in the control panel called Uncommon uses.
As in the following image: We also note that sites that violate content or that use content illegally will be referred to here, and it should be noted that this process is not 100% accurate. How should you deal with content thieves? The world has spent many years and is still fighting content thieves, and despite the decline of this process significantly, some are still able to benefit from this process against emerging sites, as the reputation of the site has an impact in determining credibility. To deal with thefts, there are three basic methods. The first way: Do nothing. After a long series of conflict between content thieves and website owners, some have found that the best way to defend is to attack by placing a larger amount of high-quality content and continuing to build internal links within this content.
After the recent Google panda update, many of these sites were actually eliminated and soon disappeared from search permanently. The second way: Kill them all!! Unleash your full anger at these sites and start writing to the site asking them to remove the materials they copied from your site. In the event of no response, we will move to the alternative plan, which is to write to the Copyright Society if your content is registered. Otherwise, we will write to the hosting company that is subject to copyright laws and which has pledged not to allow any site hosted on it to commit content theft/content scraping. To do this, we do the following: - Go to the website: http://whois.ws/ - By placing a link to the site that steals content from you.
You will find the information as follows: We also note that the personal information of the site administrator, the technical officer, and also the hosting company has appeared before us. For example, Hostgator supports the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and has a special page for reporting these breaches if they occur by one of the sites hosted by it. These companies often take very strict measures against the violating sites, and here you have achieved the revenge you wanted.
Third way: Block them
You can prevent thieves from accessing your site by blocking their IP by placing them on the block list inside the .htaccess file. Here's how. In the previous step, we obtained the name of the Domain Server / Nameserver for the site. To obtain the IP address, we open the CMD DOS interface through Windows and type the following command: ping NS2485.HOSTGATOR.COM. The server responds to us and gives us the IP address we are looking for, as in the picture. Create a .htaccess file. This step is very simple. Most of the time, we find the .htaccess file in the root of the site, and if you do not find it, you can create it with the following steps: - Go to any program. FTP - Go to the root of the site where the index file is located - Create a new file - Give it the name .htaccess (it can be modified using Notepad) - Put inside the file the IP that you reached in the following way: Deny from 123.123.123 Or you can transfer the thief to a different site in the following way (of course we replace 123.123.123 with the IP address that we obtained) RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} 123.123.123. RewriteRule .* http://dummyfeed.com/feed How can you benefit from content thieves? You can benefit from sites that steal your site’s content through a group of methods that we will briefly mention. Internal Linking - Internal links. Build internal links in the topics that are being stolen. This will help you get external links for free. Marketing for Affiliate offers. Build links to products that you market within the article. This will increase your reach with the help of the content thief.
RSS Footer Here you can be creative and place your own links and rights. There are many add-ons that allow you to add rights to your site’s feed, including the Yoast SEO add-on. These were the best methods to confront the theft of continuous topics on your site. They were explained and detailed for the first time on the Arab web. Share the article so that it reaches the largest possible number of site owners, and leave us your comment if you have a question or criticism.
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