Top 5 ways to Kick content scrapers – No more Online Plagiarism!

Content theft is the one of the main problem that every blogger faces on their blogging journey.

We spent a lot of time in researching and writing content but some people copies and publish our contents on their blog without giving us credit and that’s annoying.

 So I goggled and finally I got a  better solution to kick those content thieves.

1. Copyright Your Contents

First of all you need to copyrights to your contents. To get copyright for your blog  Register your blog at DMCA. Don’t worry you don’t need to spend a dime for it (Yep.. You read it correctly).

2. Prevent hotlinking to your Images

Now we are going to stop Image hot linking, Just create a .htaccess file in your root folder (If it is already created just open it) and enter the below code. Note: Make backup of .htaccess file before editing so that you can restore when something went wrong Thanks to Jean-Baptiste Jung for this trick

RewriteEngine On #Replace ?mysite.com/ with your blog url RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+.)?mysite.com/ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ #Replace /images/nohotlink.jpg with your "don't hotlink" image url RewriteRule .*.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /images/nohotlink.jpg [L]

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RewriteEngine On #Replace ?mysite.com/ with your blog url RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+.)?mysite.com/ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ #Replace /images/nohotlink.jpg with your "don't hotlink" image url RewriteRule .*.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /images/nohotlink.jpg [L]

3. Use Copyright Proof Plugin

This plugin digitally certifies our contents thus it provides authorship and copyrights to our contents.

You can get this plugin from here

4. Link back to Your Article

It’s a cool WordPress trick to automatically link the stolen post to your original article all you need to do is just add simple code in your wordpress single.php

5. Use Tynt Service

This tool track all your pages and automatically add link back to your site when someone copies and paste your contents

Here’s a short video about tynt and how it helps you to rank better in search engine.

How to Check for Plagiarism ?

There are lot of duplicate content checking websites out there using which you can find the content thieves and kick them away just by entering your blog URL. I have listed my favorite tools below.

My favorite tools

• CopyScape
• DMCA