How to benefit from content theft
Are you working hard to create content for your website?
Are you sick and tired to see your content copied over and over again on different websites without being given the credit?
I have some bad news: content thievery will never stop. It will even grow in the next few years because of the ease of syndicating content.
Well, now the good news is that you have a solution to get some benefits out of the content theft. Please keep on reading and give us your opinion on the subject.First, let’s answer a simple question: Why do people steal content from other websites?
In fact there are two possible reasons: more and better content for their website visitors and higher placement in the search engine results pages. Both reasons lead to profits on a very short term.
Now that we’ve answered this question, maybe you get the point on how to gain something out of it. You can either steal their visitors or get high placement in the search engine results pages or even both. But how?
The answer to this question is very easy, very straightforward and also very easy to implement.
Just add one or more links to previous articles on your website when publishing a new article. Whenever somebody steals your newly created article and publishes it, oh well there are your links. The whole article is sending both page rank and visitors back to your website.
You can go even further by placing keyword rich anchor text to the links and pointing them to your homepage, other articles, or what ever other page on your website. This way you can promote older articles, your homepage, your best report, or even affiliate links through the content thief website.
Here is an example of a link with keyword rich anchor text:
<a href="http://tntbase.com" title="wordpress themes">Wordpress Themes</a>
As you might have guessed, I need my website http://tntbase.com to rank higher in search engines for “WordPress themes” so I have used “WordPress themes” as anchor text in the link.
What do you think about it? Have you ever tried this approach? Do you have some results by using this method? Do you think it is worth the effort? Please let us know by using the comment form below.
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nice topic
p.s. will bookmark you…
Content theft is a big offense and strong headache for content writers. Also there are hundreds of content spinning softwares available and some of them are free….not good for all us who are believing in writing unique contents
Most of these sites that steal your content won’t really generate a lot of page rank or domain authority so the back-links are a bit useless. If your content is unique and gets indexed first there is not much else to worry about.
@Helmuts: thanks
@Manisha: like they say – the truth shall prevail.
The idea is simple as I see it… if you hit the “Publish” button, there you go – you are inviting scrapers to copy your content
@AJ: you are so damn right. Not much of a benefit, but still if you were to have the same authority links to your site as your competition and also the same onsite SEO done that extra worthless link would make the difference
I am always on the bright side of life!
The trick is really easy but people who know HTML would really know what we have really done. I don’t think this trick would be helpful…..
I think this is a good idea, but I suspect that the html would be stripped from the article when it is stolen. Would be good to see a working example in action. Do you have an example of stolen content that maintained the embedded backlinks?