ravioli 150x150 Someone stomped my raviolisYou may have followed this link thinking I was going to talk about my testicles. But that’s not the case. Sorry to disappoint. The theme behind this article is “material protection”. The material I speak of is basically every piece of design elements, information you have written, etc. Your blog is your artwork, and you don’t need any envious n00bie bloggers jackin’ your stuff (no pun intended).

Protecting your stuff is what allows you to keep your blog unique. I have seen some newer blogs flat out copy a big bloggers layout. I can’t count the times I have gone to a blog based on an article title in a CommentLuv and noticed that it looks eerily like problogger.net.

Direct sneaky protection

I love being able to utilize “secret branding” paired with the Google Alerts service. There is a plugin for WordPress that inserts a copyright text into your blogs rss feeds. When another website decides to scrape your feeds as their own, I would get a Google Alert notifying me of the infringing material. In addition, if you use Constant Content, they do the same thing with your articles. They place a text to notify Google Alerts that the article originated on their site. If it is unauthorized publishing, you can then pursue take-down and legal proceedings should you wish to do so.

The rss feed protection is called Copyfeed for those of you wondering. It allows you to customize the text you want placed in the feeds. This plugin is 100% free and I get nothing if you were to download and use it.

When infringers are not cooperating

The wonderful thing about this situation is that any country with a pair of nuts has copyright laws. Your articles and any content contained on your blog that you create is your copyright. There is a DMCA law which will allow you to actually send the hosting company of the non-complaint individual a DMCA take-down notice. They are required to remove the infringing material by any means necessary. This usually means that either they will send the infringer a notice, or they will suspend their hosting account.

If you are still worried at this point, then you can learn more about protecting your work.

Summary

Blogging is hard enough to make successful. It takes long hours and many months to even get off the ground in a way that’s measurable. It is important to protect your work and take steps that will allow you to focus more on content and marketing. It is much easier to focus on content when you know that the content will be protected.

Are you protected?
Someone stomped my raviolis

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