Blogging

How to prevent content theft

Have you ever stumbled across a website that has ripped off the copy you poured hours of sweat and tears into writing? What can you do about it?

Some webmasters employ javascript alerts (‘Don’t even think about it!’) to put off sneaky thieves from copying anything on the page, and others don’t allow users to right-click at all. They are right to not take the issue lightly – duplicate content will not help your SEO efforts.

However, there are other tactics you can employ, which allow users to retain their freedom to click and copy what they like, whilst still giving you the ability to give content thieves a cheeky kick in the crotch.

Niche Specific Content

Recently we have been focussing heavily upon the importance of content on your website. It is always useful to bear in mind that the search engines can only read text so even if your website has relevant pictures, logos and colour schemes, whilst they may be pleasing to the eye they will do nothing to aid your search engine rankings. Alt tags can show the search engines what keywords your pictures are relevant for, however, paragraphs of text are paramount for the success of your website on the search engines. We have already seen how to write content for your site in a recent post but here I shall focus on the importance of nice specific content.

The Future of Search?

The dominating search engines of the present, with Google leading the charge, all base their rankings on keywords. In order to rise in the rankings of the top search engines businesses currently need to target and promote specific keywords. When a business’ niche is such that different keywords are relevant to the site the current keyword based search engines can force businesses and SEOs to make a decision at the start of an SEO campaign to target one keyword more aggressively than another other. There are only so many keywords that a home page can be optimised for before diluting the effect specific keywords are having. However, there may be a solution to this problem in the way search engines may look to develop in the future.

SEO Blogging Tips to Help Your Blog

I’ll try and keep this short and sweet. The following are some tips that can help your blog rank well in the search engines and generally help drive traffic. I am going to start at the beginning and so if you already have a blog then you can skip a few lines.