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Stupid simple marketing tip: hijack RSS scrapers

Started by Christopher S. Penn · 1 year ago

Stupid simple marketing tip: hijack RSS scrapers

Want to make your blog or podcast more effective? Hijack an RSS scraper!

Definition: an RSS scraper is any web site that copies your RSS feed - your blog posts, your podcast show notes, etc. - and presents it on their site to appear to be original content.

Instead of worrying [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ ... Continue reading »

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Dennis D. McDonald
1 year ago

Excellent post. Very practical ideas. Ultimately I'd like to get some of the dollars these scrapers make off selling ads linked to my stuff but I know how likely that is to happen. (I wrote about this topic as well in http://www.ddmcd.com/different.html.)

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Dave Delaney
1 year ago

Fantastic Chris! Thanks a million for sharing this information. You rule.

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Dave Delaney
1 year ago

This is a fantastic tip Chris. Everybody on WordPress should be using it. Thanks so much. The ninja strikes again :-)

Cheers,
Dave

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Mario Lopez
1 year ago

Chris,

Good morning. Even though I'm a recent blogger, what I've read, is a very practical way to protect what we are working on.

Thank you very much.

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mark L
1 year ago

Thanks for the tips about adding the buttons at the bottoms of action posts. I will try it.

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davefleet
11 months ago

Great tips, Chris.

A little pointer on the aLinks plugin - the latest beta of Windows Live Writer provides the same functionality without needing any extensions. Very useful.

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Lucas
2 months ago

nice idea but many feed thieves will run content through strip_tags() or some equivalent function and your links back are gone :(

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