Protect Your Blog Content

Don’t you just hate it when you spend hours on a blog post only to see the exact same content in another site?  It takes you a long time to come up with a particular topic or idea, a little bit more to put the bits and pieces together, and then some more to actually write out the post.  And, just like that, someone thinks he/she can take your content – live off your hard work!

It is thus no surprise that various sectors – and individuals as well – have made it their mission to help bring down splogs (including us).  This endeavor also means taking certain steps on your part to ensure that your blog content is protected to a certain degree.  After all, if sploggers were to have a harder time stealing content, they just might give it up.

What can you do to make it hard for sploggers to steal your content?

Plugins

There are many plugins that you can utilize to make it harder for sploggers to steal your content. They work in various ways, the end goal being the same: to protect your content. Some plug ins work by disabling functions that will allow the text to be manually copied. Others work by feeding bots fake content when they try to steal the content. Take a look around and see what you can use to protect your posts.

Data service centers/Web hosting services

You may not think about it, but your web hosting company might play a role in the security of your data. After all, the information that you post in your blog will be stored in the data center used by your web host. If they have security issues, sploggers may be the least of your worries. What can you do? Make sure that you choose the right web hosting company – one that will ensure the security of your data.

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Splogs are made for money

Why do people operate splogs? The simple answer is money. Splogs can generate money for its operators without them having to put a lot of hard work on actual content.

Splogs earn money from advertising affiliate programs and other ad-based schemes to generate advertising links. They put in links that will fool you into thinking that these are recommendations to informative articles but are actually ad links — and these people earn from every click.

There are other splogs that earn money from hosting while others are more unscrupulous and earn from every click that an unsuspecting visitor will make on the splog pages.

That’s why you should be vigilant in looking at web sites. You wouldn’t want to be an unwitting contributor of money to these splog owners.

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