How can you protect your blog post from becoming WSOs?

You can't protect it, every time everywhere someone will copy your info into a paid product just accept that!

if you use wordpress, you can install a free plugin to stop content theft .... there are a few variations but wp content protector seems to fit the bill ok

There is not a proven way to do that, you can place copyright texts on your website though.
Probably you'll never know if someone uses your blog post to turn a product.

And, this isn't the only place someone could sell your concepts or ideas either. Think of the person who harvests your blog(s) for a Kindle ebook. Maybe there's a legal action you could take, for whatever that is worth online.

This may be controversial but, if its a concept that has been harvested or a copy and paste, why not just go with the flow. Find out who made the product off of your stuff and send them an email congratulating them on a great product.

You then can suggest forming a partnership for future products. You have the information and the concepts, they will take action and create the product. Both of you will benefit.

Just my two cents worth.

It might "suck", but it wouldn't actually cost you any money, if you weren't doing that yourself anyway, would it?

Your return isn't any different from what it would otherwise have been, if they're producing income from it and you're not, I think? If they hadn't infringed your rights with the creation of their "derivative works", they'd have infringed someone else's instead, surely? How would that actually help you? (Yes, it would "suck" less, from your perspective, perhaps - I can see that.)

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It's quite likely the ideas your blog posts are based on are ideas that you have seen elsewhere and made your own. Nothing you can do about this unless someone has blatantly ripped your product off. But most products out there are using methods taught to them by someone else. That's how learning works.

There is nothing really 'new', you might be discussing a concept, or strategy but it is up to you to maximize the return on your own knowledge, if someone else is enterprising enough to see an angle you are yourself using, this is called initiative. The only way to protect ideas is to withhold them and just use them yourself, or place them under copyright. you would be hard pressed to prove you had anything truly original though - the internet itself is a repository of all known information but the way you present that can be original and useful to someone.

Samsung and Apple are asking the same things in court at the moment Unless it is verbatim / plagiarism there is not much protection for your "ideas". If you publish your ideas on a blog it is out there for the whole wide world. So I suggest you keep the good ones for yourself and make your own WSO's before you publish it on your blog....

This happens all the time, In fact someone is probably going to read through the OP and decide that something they see here gives them an idea about creating and selling a WSO, while it would be nice to see someone at some point "Give Back" the truth is, most of the time its not that way at all.

When you create public content, its public, anyone can read it and consume the material.

If that gives them a great idea about how to make money online selling a WSO, great nothing wrong with that at all.

I think the OP is talking about a narrow "band" of frequency where someone literally plagiarized, content and used it in a WSO digital product.

That would be a violation, but how do you police something like that?

One thing that I would certainly do, If I had a conversation with someone and went on to make good money with that help, (Do the right thing)

I think people are afraid to acknowledge that they had help, but all in all the proof is definitely in the pudding.

There are people out there that have literally ZERO creative skills but they can sell because they have that talent.

What would be great is to develop WSO products with warriors that have complementary skills.

If you have great marketing skills a small list why not find a creative, setup a WSO and make a profit...

Hi,

The best thing you can do is SELL your own products first.

Then later on post some of those materials at your blog.

At least then you can build a customer base.

Building a buyers Email list is a fantastic asset to own for your business.

Get your own stuff out there and build a business around it.

These people don't care if they are doing what you say they might be.

Beat them to it! Turn it into a digital product yourself Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to 100% safe guard your information. It's the risk you take for posting your info free for all the world to see.

Ideas, facts, concepts are not copyrightable.

It happens. I had someone download my product, re-skin it and add it to their WSO as part of their product. Just realized it over the weekend. Not sure if it was them or their outsources but I'm still trying to get to the bottom of it. I reported the WSO but didn't hear anything back from the forum mods so as of this moment I'm in limbo. DMCAs going out soon.

It's unfortunate that in the amazing arena of online marketing there are indeed some unscrupulous folks lurking in the shadows. For the rest of us, it's only a pebble in the road we are paving but it's still something that distracts us from things we need to be working on because unfortunately DMCAs take time to send, mods take time to contact, and it takes time to follow up.

Copy and pasting materials from your BLOG is not only illegal, it's unethical.

But.... you can't do anything of someone reads a post and spins it into an information product. Unfortunately, it just happens.

Take it as flattery and move on.

Or...... "Get even" by hitting THEIR blog with intentions of same, lol (joking)

If your back end is stronger, you'll be able to spend more on customer acquisition and crush them in pretty short order.