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More on Outwitting Feed Scrapers

In my article How to Love Feed Scrapers, I wrote about 2 methods you can use to protect your content.Today I came a across another good blogging tip at AffiliateWatcher.com.
Apparently Don at Affiliate Watcher uses similar methods to turn the tables. But he takes it even one step further. You can read his secret in [...]

How to Love Feed Scrapers

submit_url = ‘http://blogresourcesonline.com/2008/01/02/how-to-love-feed-scrapers/’;Right now, on this site - Blog Resources Online - I offer full feeds.
I recently received an email from another blogger, Stephen Cronin, informing me that my feed had been scraped. I had written a post about Stephen’s Dual Feeds plugin. This post contains a link to Stephen’s site, More Than Scratch the [...]

Full or Partial Feeds? Let Your Readers Choose.

I hate partial feeds.
It is just too time consuming to click through to the actual site for every article that sounds interesting.
In fact, I am more likely to click through if the full feed is offered - because I often feel compelled to leave a comment once I have read the whole post.
Even if a [...]