Some blogger resources

Filed Under (Interwebs, Websites) by Morbid Romantic on May 16, 2009 @ 2:58 am
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Here are a few of the online resources that I use to ensure that my blog if protected and properly represented. I thought I’d put them out there for all of you other book bloggers who want to protect your content from other websites. Website theft is rampant. Some times a web thief will steal your design, but some are brazen and bold enough to actually copy and paste your content and place it on their webpage. While some may be new to website and unsure what the protocol is, I can’t imagine anyone thinking that out right content theft is acceptable.

MyFreeCopyright.com – Register your blog by adding your feed address. From the point that you register and beyond, your blog posts will be logged, registered with a date to prove you published at a certain date and time, and given a unique digital fingerprint. With this you will be able to prove that the content you publish is yours because you have a digitally stamped copy. You can’t alter the time and date or text like you can with a blog entry. So, if someone steals your content, you can just furnish your proof that it belonged to you first.

CopyrightSpot – As they say, this site is for free plagiarism detection. You put in your feed URL or your site URL and their search engine will seak out duplicates of your content. This is important for book reviewers because some sites and book sellers out there will just steal a review from a reviewer site and publish it in their book shops. Without permission.

SafeSurf Rating System – Not all of us rate books that are child or teenager friendly. There are a lot of hot and steamy novels out there! Of course, as responsible web owners and reviewers, we don’t want children to come across our reviews and read something that may be inappropriate. A quote, an observation, a joke… whatever. The site, once you register your content, will generate a META tag for you to add to your site. If your site is not for the eyes of the young, search engines will read that and not show it in results.

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    . Melissa @ Melissa's Bookshelf (9 comments.) on 16 May 2009 at 7:41 pm #

    These are great sites, very helpful! Thank you for posting :-)

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