How can I protect my website from duplication?

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I understand that there's no way to completely prevent someone from duplicating my website, but is there any method or precaution that can be taken to make it harder or discourage duplication?
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    Don't make a website, and if you do, only give the url to certain people and make them login.
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  • Profile picture of the author cassidywilliams
    If they copy your content, so be it. Google has indexed the same content on your site first, so they will not get any SEO benefit from it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by cassidywilliams View Post

      Google has indexed the same content on your site first, so they will not get any SEO benefit from it.
      You're surely not suggesting that the only site that can get any SEO benefit from any content is the site on which it's originally indexed?! At least, I hope you're not ...
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    • Profile picture of the author Wealthyclark
      Originally Posted by cassidywilliams View Post

      If they copy your content, so be it. Google has indexed the same content on your site first, so they will not get any SEO benefit from it.
      I understand your logic, but I've actually tested this therory and it's not true. If I take someones original content and focus on optimizing, the original content can be pushed out of the serps all together and replaced by the duplicate.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheFreebieGuy
    I would say don't even worry about it. If you are doing your job right, people will copy your stuff. That's a given.

    It's not worth the energy to try to protect everything. Most people are relatively honest. Yes, there will be some thieves out there, but who cares.

    Take your time and work on building up the quality of your content. Focus your energy on making yourself stand out from the crowd. When people steal your content, give yourself a pat on the shoulder and tell yourself - "Great, my content is good enough that people want to steal it".

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  • Profile picture of the author powerslave
    I'm actually toying with the idea of putting a link at the end of each article saying: 'Click here to republish this article on your own website'. The link would take them to a page where I explain my terms for allowing them to use my article (links intact, link back to original etc). Perhaps even collect a contact name, email and website where it will be published.

    The thought is to try and work with these people, rather than against them. I am sure some really are naive enough not to know they shouldn't just take content without permission, although there are plenty who do scour the internet for the sole purpose of stealing articles they aren't capable of writing themselves.

    Anyone tried this approach?
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by powerslave View Post

      Anyone tried this approach?
      Not quite, but I completely see the attraction, and will think about it; thank you.

      Originally Posted by powerslave View Post

      The thought is to try and work with these people, rather than against them.
      Absolutely.

      Here, I'm with you all the way.

      In my experience, what's sometimes happened when someone's taken my articles without my links is that an outsourced worker has done that for the website owner, and (when contacted politely but firmly about it) they've been happy to correct the mistake; I've sometimes gone on from there to offer them (as I do to people who've syndicated my articles legitimately) further articles for their site. You can get some good quality, high-PR backlinks, traffic and sales this way, obviously: it's exactly what I'm submitting my work to EZA and those other places for in the first place.

      In every case so far in which that's happened, it's actually been EZA, not my own site, from which they've taken it (I track this by changing a punctuation-mark in the EZA copy: usually substituting a semi-colon for a comma, so that I can tell at a glance from where they've taken it).

      Originally Posted by powerslave View Post

      I'm actually toying with the idea of putting a link at the end of each article saying: 'Click here to republish this article on your own website'. The link would take them to a page where I explain my terms for allowing them to use my article (links intact, link back to original etc). Perhaps even collect a contact name, email and website where it will be published.
      Very interesting suggestion ...

      ... though, as I said, in practice it's always been the EZA copy that's been taken, so far, for me, rather than the copy originally indexed on my own site.
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    People use to copy stuff off my website, with a straight copy of source code.

    They took my background and all.

    So I changed my background to show my domain name in the background of their pages.
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    • Profile picture of the author dexcell
      Originally Posted by tpw View Post

      People use to copy stuff off my website, with a straight copy of source code.

      They took my background and all.

      So I changed my background to show my domain name in the background of their pages.
      LOL that's quite an idea
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  • Profile picture of the author dexcell
    Nothing you can do, anything scraped by google, also mean they can scrape your website, except you put it behind login page, or make your website using flash
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