Attributor: Track Your Content Across The Web
For those looking for a better way of finding out which sites copy their content without attribution, here’s what you need. Attributor crawls blogs, social networks, and web sites, to determine where your content is being reproduced.
Your dashboard displays reports that show which of your articles are being reproduced the most, which of the copying sites have ads on your content, and how much traffic the copying site receives.
Attributor identifies all the sites that use your content without providing links back to you and provides you with a simple process of sending Link Requests to all the sites that haven’t linked to your original post. You can even send a Revenue Share request to sites that are making money from your content.
If you don’t want your content appearing anywhere else or if a site refuses to provide a link back to you, Attributor will let you send a DMCA Takedown notice to the copying site, the host, search engines, and ad networks.
The service is not yet publicly available so prices haven’t been announced. Interested users can get a free report by signing up.
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November 6th, 2007 00:50
Woah. This looks like a solid product Mr. Brown, as always good review. Gonna head over soon to check it out. *nod*
Bush Mackel’s last blog post..Saturday Speedlinkin VII
November 6th, 2007 00:57
YAY! I think a lot of us have been waiting to see something like this come out! As usual, you are first on the scene to report it back to us. Nice job!
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November 6th, 2007 01:20
@Bush:
I think this will be a great service. Associated Press and Reuters are already part of their client list
@teeni:
This should solve the headache of manually tracking down splogs hehe
November 6th, 2007 05:29
Wow man, that is an awesome product. The folks that thought it up will be earning big money in no time.
I am glad they made it because copy cats suck…
Incidentally I keep getting auto comments from those autoblog sites… I just tag them as spam, should I be doing something more ? Like blocking their IP? They do link back to me, so those are free links back to my blog.
I am new to blogging :).
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November 6th, 2007 05:53
What an extremely useful program/post. As I have a site that utilizes others content it is nice to see who uses the content I display and if they link back or not. Really hope this works as good as it sounds. Thx
November 6th, 2007 06:54
@John:
I get those too. Akismet usually catches all of them. If any do get through, I just mark them as spam. If you’re interested in banning the ip, there’s a plugin called WP-Ban
@Dan:
I agree. If it performs properly, it will be a big help for all of us
November 6th, 2007 10:20
This looks like a very good product to track those sploggers. It should be affordable to smaller bloggers who can then make use of this really useful product.
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November 6th, 2007 10:24
@Keith:
I agree with that buddy. I wonder how the pricing scheme will look like once it’s officially launched.
November 6th, 2007 11:39
Great app. Earlier this month, someone copied a tutorial I had written and posted it on his site. He even linked the images and was leeching from my server! This is a great way to protect content, something that has always concerned me.
turtie’s last blog post..Finding a Balance between Commenting and Creating Content
November 6th, 2007 12:03
@turtie:
Ouch. That’s a leech alright. I hope you got the site to take down your content.
November 6th, 2007 13:01
wow, Sploggers beware!
What a great product!
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November 6th, 2007 13:21
@AntiBarbie:
Splogs should share their revenue with the content’s creators hehe
November 6th, 2007 13:38
Sounds like a cool service but the majority of spblogs are rss aggregators which have no admin contact.
recently i found a site which has copied my whole content with my adsense ads on it what a fool.. thank God that google has “allowed sites”
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November 6th, 2007 15:03
@Shashank:
Copied your ads too? Haha now that’s crazy. You’re right about Google’s Allowed Sites feature. At least it’s something
November 6th, 2007 19:35
This seems promising to me. Lets see how it goes. Thanks for sharing!
Ashfame’s last blog post..Google Adsense adds AD Management Feature
November 6th, 2007 22:50
@Ashfame:
You’re welcome buddy
November 6th, 2007 23:47
Its a good service indeed. But this will can open up a war.
I can make an exact copy of another post with I will change the style of writing and Images and produce it much better.
Now I know you wrote that content but I will use this service which probably you are also using and Then put a complain and that You copied the whole thing.
What would you do ?
Unless you get an exact copy , a word to word copy it will not be that effective. Moreover Sploggers are becoming smart these days. They would steal Your ideas. Change here and there and post iit.
They are rare but They are the main threat. This service can only track those people out and trust me they will already be panalized by google
Just My opinion and no offenses !
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November 7th, 2007 01:20
@Ashish:
That’s true. I agree that the splogs are the biggest threat. Your opinions are always welcome and valuable buddy
November 8th, 2007 16:37
There is another side to this.. We just had a nasty case over here in the Netherlands, where a poor blogger got a serious claim for quoting a large section of a news paper article more than three years ago. It was an article about a disease the blogger was suffering herself. The journalist of the original newspaper article had signed up with one of these new companies that are making big money by hunting down ‘copy cats’. It is likely that software like this will be intensively used by these sharks. In our copyrights laws dating from, let’s say, 1912, there is nothing mentioned about quotation rights on blogs, of course. The claims so far are all precisely high enough to allow them to make money - and low enough to make the victims pay (as they are less than what a lawyer would cost to the defence)…
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November 8th, 2007 17:06
@Jos:
That’s nasty. I think that “fair use” will be refined over time.