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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

How to Stop Image Hotlinking by RSS Content Scrapers

How to Stop Image Hotlinking by RSS Content Scrapers: "So how do we stop image hotlinking from our website?
A lot of RSS content scraping auto blogs republish our full-text content, and this stopping content theft and plagiarism is very difficult to control and possibly leads to Google penalties and duplicate content issues, and in fact these articles might rank higher than your own content.
See what happens when some content scraping blogs tries to republish our full-text RSS feed. If we block image hotlinking for their domain name, our custom image hotlinking banner replaces all hotlinked images on their site."

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