FeedEntryHeader – Stop Scrapers?

One of my largest pet peeves has to be feed scraping. It is a habit lower life forms have of scraping my RSS into their blogs and presenting it as their own content.

That drives me nuts. Not that I have an issue with sharing what I write — this is all under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license, after all. Use what I wrote, but dang it be sure to attribute it to me!

I’m trying out a new plugin that might help a little bit called FeedEntryHeader. Features include:

• Add a copyright statement and a link to the original article to the top of your feed entries
• Build your own customised message, including your site name, site URL, post name, post URL and author name
• Simple HTML can be used to enhance appearance
• Doesn’t affect the comment feed

I like the fact that the copyright and original post link are at the top of the post. A lot of the scrapers just use an excerpt of the first portion of an article, so this stuff won’t get truncated. And even if the scraper brakes the links, I’ll have the URL to the original post as the link anchor, so it’ll still be there.

Seems like worth a try, yes? Hopefully this won’t be too annoying to you guys reading this site via feed readers. If it is, please let me know!

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3. License Issues
4. Comment Tracking
5. New Blog Spammer Trick?