Plagiarism : Copying someone else’s work and then passing it off as one’s own.
I posted an article recently on how my blog content got stolen . Ram from Teknobites was another victim. On his post today, I learnt how a picture per post can help you fighting plagiarism.
Since these blogs just copy paste the articles source code, it is very likely that the picture will actually link to the original blog content.
Just check how are the pictures linked to my blogs show up on roboticdegree blog.
( I know this picture looks pretty amateurish , but its ok till its not on my blog )
learning from what was done by Ram :
Here are the links
1. So its better to include some related picture with every post on your blog. And when you find that someone has stolen the post , Ram’s post on Plagiarism has the answer, how to change them by changing your .htaccess file.
2. Sizlopedia by Dj Flush has excellent article on how to track and recover copied blog content
3. After tracking what to do ?? Report it !! This article from Quick Online tips has the answer to report it to google and search engines.
4. Installing wordpress plugins to combat sploggers. Arpit has posted 3 plugins which could help you in fighting sploggers.
Also if you have been thinking about ways to learn HTML? It’s easy with all the online learning resources out there! Just find the best educational resource and gather your school supplies and you’re on your way!
I hope these links will be very useful in fighting sploggers who are stealing others hard work buy just the combination of Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V . If you know any other way of fighting these sploggers , do share with comments.
WOW! This means I am at the better end because I post usually 2-3 wide pictures per post
This is brilliant
But I wonder if it does not block the images in the feed reader. I need to check that out
he he
awesome I didn’t know he was hotlinking your pictures to0 otherwise I would have given you that idea before.
@djflush hey thanks for visting . And yeah , i missed some posts with pictures .. wish i could have posted pictures in all the posts. And hey .. Once you figure out do tell me whether it apprear in feed also or not .
@arpit I also didnt notice , until i read the article at teknobites. One pdf he uploaded to some file sharing site. So i was in the impression that he might have uploaded the pictures also
.. Moreover now the archive page looks so damm ugly with those pictures 
.. and guess what .. I am feeling good now 
[...] TechFreak has a great post today with links on using images to help protect against content theft: “Links : How one picture per post can help fighting Plagiarism“ [...]
That is a very creative solution to say the least. I have to ask though, have you considered filing a copyright complaint against these sites and/or simply cloaking the entire feed the way you did those images?
If you need any help with that process, feel free to email me and I’ll see what I can do!
hey jonathan, Thanks for stopping by. I will contact you right away.
Meanwhile, I would like to know if someone has confirmed if this doesnt affect reading the blogs using different feed readers…
yeah .. this doesn’t effect as the blockage is for particular domain only.
I think we can prevent picture hotlinking right? I am using it to prevent people copy my contents.
hey what method you use to do that ?? editing .htaccess or something else ??
Thanks hot linking image also waste your bandwidth.
[...] related photo in each post, I found on tecfre. content stealer usually copy the source code on from blog which leave the image link code intact. [...]
Yeah it does… but atleast it can make sure that, they guy stealing your content need to do some hardwork in removing the image