SQT: Reversing the Scraper Caper
January 19th, 2008 · by David Bradley
Is your blog getting scraped? Don’t risk a Google duplicate content penalty. A simple Wordpress tweak to your feed-rss2.php file will make the scrapers link back to your original post.
Find your feed-rss2.php file in the wp-includes folder and add the following code to line 39 (in WP 2.3.1) immediately after <?php the_content() ?>
<p><a href="<?php the_guid(); ?>">Permalink + Comments</a></p>
Check out Patrick Altoft’s Blogstorm site for full details.
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3 responses so far ↓
David Bradley // Jan 11, 2008 at 3:35 pm
No sooner had I written this SQT than I saw a follow up from Patrick that mentioned a Wordpress plugin to automate the job and make the whole process more readily customizable.
The plugin is called RSS Footer and can be found at Joost de Valk’s SEO Blog
Ricardo Vidal // Jan 19, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Thanks David, this will come in handy!
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David Bradley // Jan 20, 2008 at 9:15 am
It’s obviously not a perfect solution Ricardo, because many scrapers remove all code before reproducing posts, but it can at least give bloggers the chance to retrieve some of their linkjuice and ranking from sites that syndicate without proper credit.
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