RSS Footer
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Hey everyone,
A lot of my content gets scraped regular. I'm wondering about using the RSS Footer plugin for wordpress. It allows you to put a link back to the page on your site from the RSS feed. You can use the title of the page as the anchor text or a brand name.
It could result in lots of scraper links...with branded anchor text
How safe do you think this practice is nowadays?
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Thanks guys...post penguin, I was a little concerned too.
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Given what's been going on with Penguin, I'd say steer clear of this. Alan's spot on.
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thats a great question Peter. Not one I think anyone has addressed in a blog post. yet. Without evidence one way or another, I'm going with my intuition, and saying it's probably not a good thing. Unless Google formally comes out and says they can detect the combination of scraped content and footer links, to sort out that those are not intentionally malicious SEO links, I wouldn't trust their algorithm to sort it out.
Just an opinion at this point.
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