Each site owner sooner or later faces the problem of preserving the uniqueness of the texts. This problem is especially relevant for young sites, which the theft of content can greatly harm in search engine promotion. Similar problems for site owners can be created both by their "colleagues", who do not hesitate to fill their site with texts that do not belong to them, and ordinary users who copy the information they like without malicious intent and post it on third-party resources. How to protect a test on a website?
Necessary
- Copy protection software
- A program for adding a signature to the texts of articles
Instructions
Step 1
There are organizations that specialize in protecting content for a fee. By paying, you will receive legal confirmation that the texts on your site belong to you, unless, of course, upon checking, it turns out that they are not unique. Such organizations also have archives in which they save copies of the site pages. In case you find that your texts were posted on another site, you can contact the copy-paste and claim your rights to the content, confirming them with a link to the archive pages, on which, among other things, the dates of the appearance of the texts on your site are attested. It is easy to identify the owner of the content by date. Also, if you decide to use the services of such organizations, then you will have a complete package of documents to protect your rights in court. The downside is that, sometimes, the cost of text protection services when working with these organizations is comparable to the cost of the text itself or even exceeds it. Not all site owners can afford it.
Step 2
Another option for protecting content is to contact copyright lawyers. They check the content for uniqueness and make an assurance that on a certain date you had the given text. The only difference is that the lawyer will not provide you with an archive, the link to which you could show to copy-paste. However, you will receive legal confirmation of your ownership of the texts. The cost of the services of a lawyer is comparable to the cost of the services of the organizations mentioned above.
Step 3
For those who want to protect the text on the site, but have a limited budget, there are two more budget-friendly ways to verify copyright. There are free web archives. To protect your content, you need to add your site's address to a special form on the site and wait until the system has archived all of its pages. The second method involves printing the texts of your site on a printer and sending them to yourself with a valuable parcel post. This method is good for protecting your rights in court. The main thing is not to open the parcel ahead of time.
Step 4
Another way to protect content is to prohibit copying using special programs. When installing such programs, the user cannot use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + C and the right mouse button to copy on your site. You can also configure the display of messages that copying from the site is prohibited. In fact, this protection is easy to bypass due to the fact that there is the possibility of using other keyboard shortcuts, saving pages through the browser menu, as well as disabling Java-script in the browser, which automatically makes most of these programs inoperative. For example, the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + S saves the entire page of the site to the user's computer, where he can do whatever he wants with it and the text placed on it.
Step 5
There are also programs whose purpose is to protect against copy-paste. These programs will delay the update of PSS-feeds, encrypt texts or "hook" an inscription to the texts copied from your site, for example, that copying is prohibited and the user is breaking the law, or a working link to your site. The problem is that search robots do not treat such programs very well, as well as the ability to remove the added inscriptions with a copy-paste.
Step 6
In practice, only one copy-and-paste protection method really works. Regularly check the uniqueness of the texts, and if you find them on other resources, contact their administrators. In most cases, contacting the owners of the resource helps to fix the problem within a couple of days. If one letter is not enough, send a second one, where indicate your "serious intentions" to protect the content. If there is no result, write to the owner of the hosting where the thief site is located, and to the employees of the search engines. In the sections for webmasters, Google and Yandex made special forms, with the help you can complain about a "bad" site. As a rule, already in the next "upgrade" sites with copy-paste drop out of the search results.
