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Year of Original Content: Make Money From Copyright Thieves

April 23, 2009 by Lorelle VanFossen

Ask First Copyright badge - by Lorelle VanFossenI and Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today have long been advocates of copyright protections and education, leading the way with projects such as “Ask First,” the “Year of Original Content,” “5 Content Theft Myths and Why They Are False,” and “The 6 Steps to Stop Content Theft.”

It seems that the rest of the world is waking up to the fact that stolen content is big business. Within the past two years, there are a variety of services you can use to track where your online content has gone, report and stop it. A new project is underway called the Fair Syndication Consortium that might put a dollar amount on that stolen content, paying you for others abusing your content. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Adsense, blog content, Content Scraping, content theft, copyright, copyright fair use, doubleclick, Fair Syndication Consortium, fairshare, make money, monetize, scapers, scraping, spam blogs, sploggers, splogging, Splogs, tracking content theft, writing, year of original content

The Year of Original Content: How to Fight Back Against Abusers

February 23, 2009 by Lorelle VanFossen

This blog has no brain - use your own - caution signI’ve declared this the Year of Original Content and I’m inviting you to help join the fight against those who abuse our content.

Scam, spam, splog, and scraper blogs are big business, taking in $3.2 billion dollars in 2007 just in the United States. Russia, China, Zimbabwe, and other countries are generating even more money with a variety of Internet scams. Many of these sites and blogs use our original content to generate that money, often from blogs that have no advertising nor direct income – making money from our hard work.

It’s time to fight back. It’s time to be proud that you are the unique voice in the wilderness. It’s time to honor your hard work and declare, “I decide who can and can’t take advantage of me!”

Here are some ways you can join the call to celebrate original content and fight back against those abusing our content without our permission. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: blog security, copyright, copyright infringements, copyright law, copyright protection, copyright violation, original content, protect your blog, report copyright violations, year of original content

This is the Year of Original Content

February 18, 2009 by Lorelle VanFossen

This blog has no brain - use your own - caution signI’m working on my annual Things I Want Gone from the Web article and I’ve personally designated this “The Year of Original Content.” We’re done playing around with feed scraping and autoblogging.

The blog echo chamber effect of someone blockquoting and linking the same content as a recommendation, echoing through the web without original content, is a beginner’s mistake. Don’t do it. Always add your original voice and content to your recommendations, telling your readers why it is important to leave this blog and go to another, then come back for more.

Google took action to penalize duplicate content within a site and between sites, and added bonus points for original and unique, appropriate and relevant keywords around links, especially link lists, rewarding original content providers with nicer PageRank scores. Similar actions are being taken by other major search engines, directories, and legitimate content aggregators.

As a serious blogger, you’ve learned the lesson and stay focused on creating original content. You link to other people’s content appropriately, taking care to protect their copyrights and not confuse your reader’s, putting other people’s content in blockquotes with clearly indicated links and credits.

For scammers, scrapers, and plagiarists, other people’s content has turned into a major money-maker as they use other people’s content for financial gain and misdirection. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: blog security, copyright, copyright violation, DMCA, duplicate content, original content, plagiarism, report copyright violations, scam, scams, scraper, scraper blogs, Security, spam blogs, splog, splogger, stop plagiarism, year of original content

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