There are a whole variety of sites that scrape content from blogs using the RSS feeds. Some are quite open about it and just display a teaser followed by a link back to the original website, whereas others pass off the work as their own whilst displaying the full posts.

Whilst I do not condone such copying, there is a way to make the copy work for you. We have all heard of the Google duplicate content filter, but it seems that these days, if the copying website attributes the work back to you (with a link) then Google accepts this and you get full credit.

So that is exactly what we have to do and in fact, we can turn a thief into a benefit. You might almost want to be encouraging them!

The first step is to download and install a related posts plugin. There are loads about and they can usually slot the list of related posts into the end of the post. This means that your readers see the list and might read on further, whilst at the same time anyone copying your posts also copies the list.

This gives us 2 advantages. First, anyone reading their website might see the list and jump over to your website. Secondly, they are giving you a number of deep links straight to your website! Both are excellent benefits.

But it depends on there being related posts, otherwise the idea fails. So it can also be worth while adding a couple of links to various pages from a lot of your posts, especially if you do detect someone copying your posts. Either just use the links to refer readers to other suitable pages, or even just link back to your home page.

Of course, all links do not need to be to posts. Why not to categories and tags? Spread the links out if you can! And if you own multiple websites, why not cross link them from within the posts? When the posts are stolen you are getting a whole array of free links!

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