Plugins to protect Wordpress blogs from sploggers

I’ve tried out a few plugins recently to stop sploggers from stealing my content. My favorite was ©Feed, but unfortunately it causes errors if you use it alongside any Feedburner redirecting plugin.That plugin does everything I want, otherwise – maybe someday it will work.

Now I’m using Anti-Feed Scraper Message, which is a simple plugin that allows you to insert any paragraph you want at the bottom of your post, as viewed by a feedreader. The message – like the one in ©Feed – is visible to all your readers, so remember this when you’re composing the message. I inserted a copyright notice and a digital fingerprint into mine. So far, this seems to be making sploggers want to stop using my content – the one splogged post I found since then was removed rather quickly once the blogger had a look at what his automated sploggy software had picked up.

I’m also using Anti-Leech, which I’ve recommended before. Today, for the first time, I found a stolen post from one of my other websites that had the AntiLeech graphic and everything. D’oh! I added an identifiable part of the URL to my list of user-agents who need to receive fake content, so any future splogging from the site should be amusing.

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