Comments on: New Feedburner Stats Will Help Track Content Thieves

By: Mashable* » Feedburner, aka The Splog Slayer

Mashable* » Feedburner, aka The Splog Slayer — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 23:20:04 +0000

[...] As a quick followup to my last post about ESBN and splog prevention, you probably noticed that Feedburner rolled out some new features on Tuesday. The best one? The ability to check for “uncommon uses” – this can tell you whether sploggers are reprinting your feed without your permission. Darren Rowse and Plagiarism Today are both justifiably pleased with this, but I really wish it was accessible to all bloggers, not just people using the Feedburner service.* [...]

By: Mashable*

Mashable* — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 23:17:35 +0000

Feedburner, aka The Splog Slayer

As a quick followup to my last post about ESBN and splog prevention, you probably noticed that Feedburner rolled out some new features on Tuesday. The best one? The ability to check for “uncommon uses” – this could allow you to track w…

By: Plagiarism Today » Feedburner Fights Splogging and Scraping

Plagiarism Today » Feedburner Fights Splogging and Scraping — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:13:31 +0000

[...] This goes a long way in the battle against splogging and scraping as, for the first time, bloggers don’t have to rely on search engines or dumb luck to find people reusing their content. Instead, they get a neat report of all suspicious activity, complete with links to follow up on. For the moment at least, the guesswork is gone. [...]

By: tom sherman

tom sherman — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 05:56:06 +0000

Something else that some bloggers do is “sign” all their entries at the bottom (or just their RSS) — i.e. “This was originally posted by Tom Sherman at http://underscorebleach.net” …

By: laughingmachine

laughingmachine — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 04:57:52 +0000

Thats Sounds Good

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 02:09:26 +0000

Do you think using http://www.esbn.org/esbn/default.asp would help in marking your content as your own?

By: Tammy Lenski

Tammy Lenski — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 02:04:58 +0000

Darren, FeedBurner’s new stats helped me find a content thief today–as far as I’m concerned, I’m in Feedburner’s debt. A marketing firm that tries to sell its services to mediators like myself had republished my full feed–to the tune of dozens of articles–without my permission and without attribution, with AdSense running on their site. Scumbags. I’ve alerted all the other mediators whose material they had “borrowed.”

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Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:59:33 +0000

[...] Darren at Problogger puts it this way: “This is a killer app as far as I’m concerned and if it works will remove my main barrier to publishing full feeds on my blog.” [...]

By: John Zeratsky

John Zeratsky — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:23:09 +0000

Hi everyone — we just put the “missing stats” into production a few minutes ago. You should be able to see everything you could see before the update, plus more.

Thanks for pointing this out. It was an oversight on our part, and we’re glad for folks like you who keep us on our toes :-)

Drop us a line or stop by our forums if you have additional questions.

By: JLP at AllThingsFinancial

JLP at AllThingsFinancial — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:55:25 +0000

Geez! I just realized that my link it to my old blog. I fixed it now. Sorry about that.

By: JLP at AllThingsFinancial

JLP at AllThingsFinancial — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:54:06 +0000

LOL! Someone from Feedburner just imformed me that it is a bug or glitch in the program. I have posted about it on my blog.

By: JLP at AllThingsFinancial

JLP at AllThingsFinancial — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:51:42 +0000

“But what if they pick up the full original source feed of your feedburner feed?”

I’m sure that’s possible but I think it would be hard to do since the feed is numbered. I wouldn’t worry about that.

What I don’t like about the “new” Feedburner is the fact that I’m losing the ability to track individual post popularity unless I spend $60 per year to upgrade my account. They are essentially forcing bloggers to fork over the cash. I wish I could charge for my content.

By: Quick Online Tips

Quick Online Tips — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:38:14 +0000

You are right Darren. This is one of the main reasons I do not publish full feeds as some blogs just republish your full feeds as thier own content. This will discourage them. But what if they pick up the full original source feed of your feedburner feed?