Twisting Blog Scrapers Into Your Allies

“Have you ever feel so mad because your well prepared self researched blog post fell into a scraper blogs in a matter of minutes? ”

I believe you did. A friend of mine had complaint about this problem. There are thousand of nasty blog scrapers which using RSS to monitor and harvesting new posts from selected categories then post it into their autoblog immediately. Obviously it’s a nightmare for you since those merciless scraper autoblogs creates duplicate or multiplication’s of your content which was intended to be unique.

Eventually those duplicates could get indexed faster than yours, so it could bring a false positive signal that your original content is flagged as a duplicate of a scraper blog. I bet you don’t even wish that could be happed.

“However, where there is a will, there’s always a way.”

Instead of become frustrated with blog scrapers, why not twisting their nasty behavior into your ally. Yes, you could turn their autoblog headless scraper into a backlink bonus for your original content. Since the script usually runs automatically, the owner doesn’t really care about the content even for taking a short look to edit the material before it goes online. So, everything you put into your original post will be posted as it is.That’s our windows to manipulate blog scrapers.

All you need is using the following plugin for your WordPress blog.

“Ouch… sorry guys I didn’t mention about this at the very beginning. This trick is only working for a self hosted WordPress Blog. For you who still a big fan of Blogspot or WordPress.com this trick is simply doesn’t work.”

The WordPress plugin you need.
1. Full Text Feed. It prevents WordPress from cutting your feed when you use a < more > tag on your post. We need a full length post for our feed.
2. RSS Footer. It allows you to add a url link of content to the end of your RSS feed articles and also additional link to your domain.

By using those two plugin combination, every time your RSS feed become a post on a scraper blogs, it will turns into a new backlink to the original one. So the crawler of search engine always know where the original post comes from.

Before you start submitting your RSS feed to RSS directories I suggest to use those plugin first for a precaution measure.