How to change URL of RSS Feed?
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Hi,
There are some websites that keeps on scraping my content. I have blocked them already from accessing my website using .htaccess but they still get my content via RSS feed.
I have tried delaying the RSS feed but I think this affected google rankings. My question is, is there a way to change the URL of my RSS Feed?
From: http://www.mysite.com/feed to http://www.mysite.com/feed2
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I think than you had better consider legal steps. If they have acces to your content from a third domain or ip they can also do that from a furth or fifth one. So no metter how many ips you will block, if they do know you feed address they can subscribe with a completely new one. In my opinion if this is the case than legal solution should be the best for you.Copyright your articles.
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Hi Zsolt,
Unfortunately, the scrapers are smart enough to remove the links in the content that they copy. I don't know how they do it but even though my post has links and the h1 title is also a link, the are able to strip the url off.
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Maybe one of the simplest solution is not blocking those sites to access your content. Make your h1 tag a link to the actual post. So if you have a post title post1 on the url domain.com/post1, the post1 heading on the top of the page should point to domain.com/post1. So if anybody steals your content than they will point back to the original content on your site, so of all copies your site will be he strongest one with the most links.
I would also place links in the content body pointing to my other pages, so anybody copying my content would be appriciated as they are giving handful of backlinks in return. I would also write a little info panel in the bottom: this atrticle was originaly posted on: www.domain.com and written by xy.com. Find similar articles here: domain.com/relatedposts.
In the mean time I would place a leagl statement that copying my content is all right, but just with the links included.
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Hi Zsolt,
What might be the best solution to prevent the scrapers from stealing my content? Some examples of scrapers of my site are
and many more... I have tried blocking these sites in htaccess using both ip and domain name by the following code format:
Block by IP and Domain
order allow,deny
deny from 208.43.239.80
deny from hownews.infoBut though such code is already in the htaccess, they can still scrape my content. I know they are getting it from my RSS feed because when I put some code to delay my RSS Feed, they are not able to get my latest posts.
I hope you can help me find out on how to put a stop on this scrapers as they are really hurting my rankings. They even rank higher than my site which is the source of the original content.
Thanks in advance....
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You have to cotact with your programmer to change the url for you, or in some cms systems you can do it in the backend.
What do you exactly mean by scraping? IF they steasl your content, than using a new url is not the best solution fo you.
Rss and rankings: rss usually contains the same information that is already available on your site on some url (not in all cases of course but usually). If that is the case than the feed only has negative affects on your rankings as it duplicates the content: the exact same text that you can find on domain.com/xy can be found on domain.com/feed/xy. So if that is the case you should not worry about your rankings.
If you change your url you should also redirect teh old one at the same time, if you do not do this than all of those who are yet subscribed will lose your feed, you do not want that. If you redirect, than anybody who knew the old url will get to the new one. I think it is pointless.
I would block the ip adresses i do not want to access my content. You could also try to apply legal stuff: say nobody is allowed to use your copys on their own sites. It is easy to find out if anybody does.
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