For those of you using feeds to read my blog, you’ll see three strange words (freebird l whilst l jester) after the first paragraph of each post. It’s annoying yes… but it helps me catch spamming thieves.
Thieves? Whoa, sounds scary.
It is scary! Splogs take content via RSS feeds and post them to a spammer’s blog. Basically, they steal someone else’s good quality content (and keywords) to use as their own… posted nice and neat right next to all their spammy ads and links. They’re too cheap, stupid and lazy to write their own content. Unfortunately, their websites look real to an unsuspecting reader.
How do you know if your content has been stolen?
I use MaxPower’s digital fingerprint. I choose a few random words that are automatically placed in each post. I can search for this exact phrase by putting the phrase in quotes and doing a Google search to find my content on someone else’s website. Then… I can let all hell break loose. Really, I will inform God.. er.. I mean Google about the stolen content and Google will remove the site from their index.
Why bother? The Twaddle doesn’t have any good quality content.
Ha ha. Very funny. While you’re probably right, I still want to protect my intellectual property. Intellectual… okay, now I’m really stretching it!
Okay, fine. But why those three words?
I don’t know. I just Google searched for “random words” and I found a website with a whole page of them.
Hey, I don't want this picture. What gives?
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Ah… That explains it! Your paranoia over the dystopian web is consuming you!
I think you’re clever. No one should be able to plagerize you. Fuck them. Good for you. However, I never noticed these random words. Hey, my english version spanish book came in!!!
I know, I totally have paranoia about the internet. But not to the extent that I won’t use it – I would live on the internet if I could!
Carol, you don’t notice the random words because you don’t use RSS feeds. And I’m not clever! Someone else kindly let me use their idea!
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