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  • #604156
    Anonymous
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    Hi there Itay,

    So Lou tells me you would educate us about how to protect ourselves against blackhat techniques.

    I am ready for my first lesson.

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    #744508
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Hi Dom, I am not ignoring this post… I am just thinking on writing an article about it BUT the issue is a bit funny. it is like tax planning, once the authorities know about it – they found a way to close this is well… but I am working on it

    Itay

    #744512
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    I dont think she asked for help becoming a blackhat?

    #744513
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    I know but saying how to protect yourself, dont you think BH-ers reading it and find a way arround it?

    Itay

    #744517
    supervince
    Member

    @allfreechips 133635 wrote:

    I dont think she asked for help becoming a blackhat?

    Whats the difference? You need to know blackhat to be able to protect yourself from it.

    #744521
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    I read it as if he told her about it the authorities would block it lol, read it a tad to fast :)

    #744523
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Hehe, too funny! :)

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    #744673
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Some good places to start would be:

    How to find out if your site is being scraped and what to do if your site is being scraped.

    How to find out if someone has put your site in a frame and how to prevent someone from putting your site in a frame. What to do to get the frames taken off google.

    How to find out if someone is stealing your content and how to stop content thieves.

    How blackhatters can affect your ranking and SERPS, how to detect it and what to do about it.

    #744693
    vladcizsol
    Member

    Excellent Idea and topic suggestions Dom! :hattip:

    Itay can you address these? I know affiliates definitely need info on all of these.

    #744741
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Excellent topics – I agree!

    These are the things we all need to know.

    #744795
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Count on my attention too:3eyes:

    #744799
    supervince
    Member

    [url]xxhttp://www.seoblackhat.com/forum/[/url]

    Great place to start learning.

    #745424
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Hi all,

    It took some time and research and as you all know I am a bit busy ( just a bit) ready to launch B4Playing beta software the day after tomorrow ( Aug 15th).

    I will post here 4 different posts as the answer is pretty long. I do hope it will help us all to protect our content. Each post is related to each question posted by Dom (Thanks DOM)


    First one:

    Ok, so here’s the info I promised (thanks, Dominique, for breaking it down into the topics you want to know the most).

    “How to find out if your site is being scraped and what to do if your site is being scraped.”

    Right, so web scraping is what happens when someone comes along and takes content from your website without your permission. This started out just being text, but it now includes just about everything – images, graphics, video, and other elements. They are either left as they are or converted into another format or they may be utilized within a different context.

    To be sure that your own website doesn’t fall victim to web scraping, there are many different things that you can do. Some are easier than others, and they all have their own good sides and bad sides.

    To implement an effective anti-scraping strategy, you first need to understand how scrapers actually work. It’s actually quite surprising how simplistic scraping really is. The reason is that the more complex the tactics are, the less effectively they work. Their goal is reliability, not completeness or accuracy. They simply want to obtain content in a way that will make their visitors believe that they have obtained it by legitimate means.

    Think about how easy it is to actually scrape a website. Have you ever highlighted text and pasted it into a document file so that you could use it later? Have you ever saved an image to your hard drive? That’s pretty much a form of scraping – or at least that’s how the easiest part of it is done. The difference, though, is that web scrapers will generally parse the HTML supplied by the server to take out the text and images. They use bots to do the “copy and paste” for them. They then use the material for their own sites, within different HTML coding.

    This can have negative effects on your search engine ranking, since your content is no longer unique on the web, and search engines are looking for relevant, original content when they dole out the best ranks.

    For one thing, you should accept that no matter what you do, it is possible for a determined web scraper to use your web content. So you may begin by ensuring that your content will work for you – whether it’s scraped or not. Essentially, this means that you should work to ensure that you are credited with your own work whether it’s being read on your website or if it’s been scraped and fed onto another site altogether.

    Techniques for doing this include:

    – Use your name in at the beginning of all of your posts, articles, and/or blogs.
    – Hyperlink your name to your “about us” page when you use it at the beginning of your posts, articles, and/or blogs.
    – Use absolute URLs.
    – Include a link in the first two lines of your posts, articles, and/or blogs. Have the link lead to another page on your site.
    – Include the name of your site or blog within the text of your posts, articles, and/or blogs.
    – Include a paragraph at the end of your posts, articles, and/or blogs that will lead to “related information” or “other works by the author”, which include links to other places on your website.
    – Be sure to quote or reference yourself or your own works within your posts, articles, and/or blogs.

    This is extremely effective for ensuring that your readers recognize that the scraper is not the author. Even better, you will be providing the reader with many different pathways to find their way back to your website – where they belong. It may make your web content a bit more challenging to create, but it’s well worth the effort.

    There are also some technical steps that you can take to stop – or at least slow down – the bots that scrapers use to swipe your content. Try the following:

    – Use a “honeypot” (an easy-to-use technique for capturing limited information such as IP addresses of those visiting the site) or another technique to find out what IP address is sending the bots.
    – If you find out that there’s an unwanted bot visiting your site, check out its IP address and block it. All browsing and bots will be blocked from then on from that address.
    – Some bots – such as Google’s crawler, “googlebot” – declare themselves when they crawl a site. Therefore, you can block them on this basis. Sorry to say, though, that malicious bots will frequently say that they’re simply normal browsers, so they may not be screened by your efforts to identify them by name.
    – You can block bots using excess traffic monitoring.
    – You can block bots on your site by using excess traffic monitoring.
    – Use techniques such as those created by the CAPCHA project (such as those wavy images of random letters that visitors must enter to progress, whichare used by some websites to prove that you’re a human visitor and not a bot).
    – Use carefully crafted JavaScript.

    itay

    #745426
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    How to find out if someone has put your site in a frame and how to prevent someone from putting your site in a frame. What to do to get the frames taken off Google.”

    One of the most irritating things that you can discover is that someone has put your site – or some of its pages – in frames. Being put in frames can take all of your hard work designing and search engine optimizing, and make it worth absolutely nothing when it comes to Google SERPs.

    The first thing you’ll want to do – for both prevention and treatment of being put in a frame – is to add frame-breaking script to your pages. There are a number from which you can choose.

    The following is a frame breaker that should be inserted between the head tags.

    ” < script type= text/javascript”>
    if (parent.frames.length > 0)
    {parent.location.href=self.document.location}

    If you’d rather provide your site visitor with the choice whether or not to continue within the frame, you can give an optional frame breaking button. It is as follows:

    < form action = "dummyvalue" >
    < input type= "button" value="Breakout of Frame"
    name=”button” onclick= “breakout_of_frame()” />

    Itay

    #745429
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    How to find out if someone is stealing your content and how to stop content thieves.”

    To find out if someone else is using your site content, you’ll need to do a bit of homework. It doesn’t take too long, but there are a few steps to it. Remember that it might not be an entire page that has been stolen. It could be an article, or even just a paragraph or a picture. So looking for your page title won’t always do the trick.

    Try doing searches for lines from your text. You can also use services such as Copyscape which will search the web for texts that have suspiciously similar patterns of text, such as matching phrases or almost matching sentences, paragraphs, or whole text. You should actually do that regularly, not just once. Every few weeks or every month should do the trick.

    If you find that someone out there is using your material, your next step is to find out who owns the site with the stolen material. Use whois, whois Godaddy, or Internic Domain Name Search or a similar service to locate the webhost and find that individual’s contact details.

    When you know who you’re targeting, it’s time to send out two very polite, yet stern emails. The first email will be to the owner of the website; the second will be to the web host company. These emails should inform them that the website has infringed on your copyrights, and request that either the material be removed, or you be provided with proper accreditation/linking/money or whatever you desire to make the use of your material fair.

    Give the recipients of your emails 48 hours to read them and act on them, and then check the website again (don’t forget to hit “refresh” to be sure that your browser isn’t displaying old material. It’s easy to forget to do that when we’re on a mission to save our web copy!).

    If that doesn’t work, send another email to both recipients notifying them that they have 24 hours before you report the website to all major search engines to have it banned, stating that the website has broken the rules of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA).

    The majority of the time, this will actually resolve the issue. However, if this doesn’t work, you should follow-through on your threat to have the site banned. Notify each of the major search engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, etc – of the theft, and eventually you will find that they will take down the bad sites.

    If all else fails, you may have to think about pursuing it legally – though you truly need to balance whether it’s worth the time, effort, frustration, and money. If you are going to be taking this kind of action, you will need to gather the right information to present your case. This includes:

    – All of the information you used in the search to identify the person who has used your site content. Put all of it together in a file in your computer. This should also include any and all correspondence that you’ve had with the owner/web host company. Make sure that you back up all of these files – just in case.

    – As you save all of the “evidence”, you are creating a paper trail (even if you haven’t printed anything off, yet). As you create files, your computer will save the date that they were made. You should, however, be sure to print things off sooner or later, so that you’ll be able to show people even without a computer present. This should also include screen caps of the programs using your content, with file dates, samples, and examples.

    One important thing that you need to remember is not to try to get revenge. Vengeance won’t help you at all, so forget efforts to spam, publicize, or abuse the thief. Remain professional. By spamming or defacing someone else’s website, you may find that the legal problems are your own if that person decides to take legal action.

    Don’t forget that you can always contact the advertisers of the copying site. If they are an affiliate site, if there are banner ads, or any other kind of advertising on the site (which is likely if they’re so desperate to use your material and attract visitors), then you should notify those advertisers that an illegal site is among those using their name. If the advertiser is a legitimate business that cares about its reputation, it will most certainly take action to contact the site owner and put some pressure on.

    If you use these techniques, you should see some results – though you should be prepared to meet resistance, even if it’s just at first.

    Itay

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