If you have a blog or other website where you post content, it is becoming a necessity to protect the content from those who shamelessly copy and paste it into their sites without proper credit or permission. Let me give you an example. This blog has about 5000 visitors a month and I have already seen 2 to 3 websites where the content was just a copy and paste of my posts.
How do you detect when people steal your content ? You can always go and search for a few phrases that are in your posts and see if there are any matches other than your site. But this process is tedious and error-prone. I’m using FairShare.
FairShare is a website which takes the feed link of your blog or website as input and sends you reports about how your content is being used on the web. You can also tell it how your content is licensed so that it will not report those who use it properly.
You will get a weekly report summary and another report as and when it finds an improper use. The only problem with this service is that it takes your feed URL as input. If you do not use full text in your feeds or if you don’t even have a feed, it is not possible to use this service.
Update : As mentioned by Rich in the comment below, it does work with partial feeds. I have removed the email address from the comment to avoid email spam.
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