Use The Following Codes to Avoid Content Theft
Content theft has become a serious issue especially for (original) bloggers. How would you feel if someone else (not one, sometimes many) gets credit for your original work? I don’t want to describe that feeling, but would rather describe some effective ways to prevent content theft on your blog.
These are technical ways to prevent your blog content as well as images from been copied. Also I must add that these are not fool proof methods, because there are many expert cyber thieves on the prowl who know exactly how to copy from just about anywhere. These tips are suggested for regular bloggers as well as intended against regular small time content thieves.
Your blog may be prone to two types of theft – text as well as images. Well, people do steal your ideas, but that is not considered here. Let us first learn the simplest way to make sure your visitors are not able to copy your text and save it elsewhere with them for further direct pasting.
You might have seen that some websites do not allow their visitors to select and copy the content available. Mostly the right click functionality of the mouse is disabled here. A large number of content thieves depend on these functionalities.
To have this content protection functionality in your blog or website, go to your site’s source code and add a little piece of HTML code to the body tag. For this, just add the following:
Onselectstart= “return false” and ondragstart= “return false”
That is:
<body bgcolor=”#FFFFFF” ondragstart=”return false” onselectstart=”return false”>
That will solve the problem of text theft from your site. Now coming specifically to the safety of all your original images on your blog or site, you can do the following. If you add a ‘no click’ option in your IMG tag it will make sure visitors are not able to use their mouse for saving your image.
To prevent visitors from just right clicking on the image (right clicking is usually used for copying) you will have to add a little longer HTML code. Get in touch with me if you need that code.
You can also disable indexing your images so that web users are not able to steal it even from search engines. For this you will have to work on your Robots.
txt file by adding ‘disallow’ for gif, jpg or png image files. You can also disallow Yahoo Pipes in your Robots.txt file, which is a major factor leading to content theft.
Finally a major source of content theft is your RSS feed. To avoid this go to the settings and change the feed to show only summary of your post or page instead of the full text.
