RSS Feed Scrapping
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Hi,
I've read that some sites will "borrow" the content of your blog. In order to ensure that Google recognizes the original author, what code should we put into the blog posting?
Our blog is for Drupal 7 (?) if that helps.
Cheers!
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To make use of people who "borrow" your content, add a link back to your site inside of the content. When they publish the content on their site, you got yourself a backlink.
If you use Wordpress, Yoast SEO-plugin has a feature for this, very easy to use.
Good luck!
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Hi Francisco & Vikas,
Thanks so much for the replies.
I'm just starting to learn how to do rel=canonical. In the Beginners Guide there is some sample Canonical code.
Would it be possible to use some code similar to the one below at the bottom of the blog post? Sample:
Thanks!
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Yeah as Francisco said, Rel=canonical might be one option. Adding this tag, If multiple url have similar content Google will consider url with rel=canonical. And Google's algo is quite advanced now and when it will crawl your content first, it can assume you are the creator of content and as they crawl other scrapped content, they will know that this content might be scrapped.
So I would also say not to worry too much about it.
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rel=canonical. That's my answer. Also you may want to watch WBF http://www.seomoz.org/blog/cross-domain-canonical-the-new-301-whiteboard-friday. I don't know if that will help though.
I really don't worry about my content being scraped. I get backlinks from it anyway. Also, I make sure "I" rel canonical it just in case some scraper comes by.
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