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Why I’m Truncating my Blog Posts and Feeds.

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You may have heard a lot of buzz lately in the blogosphere about blog post stealing and scraping. 

Some of you may be asking ‘What is scraping?’

Blog scraping is the process whereby individuals, known as scrapers,  use automated software to scan through a large number of blogs searching for and copying blog content.  The scraped content is then used on spam blogs or ‘splogs’.  The scraper’s site then benefits from the key words copied and stolen, benefiting their search engine ranking!

Also, and this is scary, the scraped content can appear on any splog or RSS fed spam site including those that promote pornography or other offensive content.  This of course damages the original author’s reputation!  So not only do blog post scrapers benefit from our hard work for their financial gain, they can harm an unsuspecting blogger’s character and offend their cherished readers.

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Scraping and full out blog post theft is happening right now.  This theft of blogger’s intellectual property, hard work and time is also unfortunately growing.

To protect our blogs and our efforts many bloggers are now truncating their blog posts and feeds.  Truncation is the shortening of a post from it’s full version to a shortened version. 
This week my truncated posts and feeds will display the beginning sentences of the post then will display a ‘Continue Reading’ link, which I hope you click to continue to read my full posts!

I know it seems like a pain in the buttoosky to click one more time to read my full post.  If there were any other way to get around this problem I, along with other bloggers who are trying our best to deter the theft of our work,  would be inplementing it.
  

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I take my blog very seriously and try very hard to bring a high level of professionalism and hopefully inspiration to every picture and every post on my blog. Truncating my posts on my blog and in feeds will help protect the hard work I put into my posts such as my 

DIY Beaded Sunburst Mirror Tutorial

or my favorite post Turn Children’s Art into Tea Towels!

Be sure that I value each and every one you!!  I treasure the time that you, dear readers, spend on my blog, your feedback, your friendship and I really hope I don’t lose any of you out of frustration.  I hope you will all understand and continue to read my blog, say hello when you do and share your amazing comments! 

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heatherHeather Luckhurst is an Interior Designer and owner of the Interior Design and Lifestyle website SettingforFour.com. Heather is a Brand ambassador and offers online EDesign services and is also a proud military wife! At Setting For Four, you'll find helpful design and decor tips, home remodeling projects, creative entertaining ideas and delicious recipes. Heather is obsessed with Instagram and elegant, timeless interiors.

 

 

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  1. Dee @ A Lapin Life says

    September 4, 2012 at 4:30 pm

    Thanks for the info. I had no clue about it.

    Dee 🙂

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    • Heather says

      September 4, 2012 at 4:39 pm

      Your welcome Dee! Tons of bloggers are doing this now, it seems the scraper sites are growing….we spend to much time to get ripped off I think! I just hope I don’t lose any readers, since it might be a pain in the behind for some to click to read the full post, but we are all in the sam boat so I hope everyone understands the terrible situation!

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  2. Amy - while wearing heels says

    September 4, 2012 at 11:58 pm

    Wow…I had no idea. Thanks so much for sharing what you’ve learned and how you think you can combat it. I think I might do the same. Thanks!

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    • Heather SettingforFour says

      September 24, 2012 at 3:29 am

      Hope it helps Amy!

      Reply
  3. Katie Drane says

    September 6, 2012 at 1:18 pm

    Thank you for writing about this. I’ve deleted my pins that were posted by shelterness, homedit and whattopin.us because most of them were stolen. All we can do is build awareness! P.S. I found you on Blog Hop Social and am so glad to be following you!

    Katie
    http://www.funhomethings.com

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    • Heather SettingforFour says

      September 24, 2012 at 3:28 am

      I’m so sorry to hear that you had content stolen, how frustrating for you Katie. All we can do as bloggers is support each other and educate ourselves to this problem!

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  4. Heather SettingforFour says

    September 24, 2012 at 3:05 am

    Thanks Katie for your sweet comments! I am so sorry to hear that your content has been stolen, it’s so frustrating for you! I agree that all we can do as bloggers is support each other and educate ourselves on ways to work around this problem.

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  5. Robyn Osborn says

    September 26, 2012 at 4:38 am

    I just started doing this too. Some people have to ruin everything for the rest of us. Darn bad people!

    :o)

    Robyn

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