ProBlogger: Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?

Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?

Posted: 22 Apr 2016 06:00 AM PDT

Reading Roundup: What's new in blogging this week / ProBlogger.net

This Entrepreneur’s Secrets to Being Productive From Anywhere in the World | Inc

Not only do we want to make the best use of our time, but some of us also want to do that from wherever we happen to be. It’s a bigger job than we probably think (I’m guessing a team is pretty useful) but still doable. Also, the thing about creating an ideal day was an aha moment for me.

Facebook Might Soon Let You Earn Money From Your Posts | The Next Web

This was interesting for all the platforms it describes where you can now earn money for your efforts via sponsorship or membership. It’s such a rapidly shifting landscape, could it be that early adopters get the worm?

Pinterest Rolls out Revamped, Faster Loading App to Improve User Experience | Social Media Today

Which may mean your Pins get seen by more people. Yay!

These Three Everyday Challenges Are Plaguing Marketers All Over the World | Edgar

And the things they’re doing to combat them. Awesome.

The Scientific Marketing Strategy Behind Exponential Growth | SumoMe

And who doesn’t love exponential growth? Not only by experimentation, but learning from it too. It’s the only way.

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Escaping the Digital Media Craptrap | The Information

As clickbait winds to a close (hopefully!) digital content to attract audiences will evolve. There is a rush on video focus at the moment (funnily enough, by people who used to deal solely in clickbait) and it’s interesting to see where it’s all headed.

5 New Facebook Live Features for Marketers | Social Media Examiner

If you want to nail the Facebook algorithm, we hear live video is the place to be. If you’ve never dabbled before, here are some basics.

How to Start Creating Facebook Instant Articles For Your Blog: Facebook and WordPress Team Up | Buffer

Have you started with Instant Articles yet? It’s confusing, and the signup is a pain in the butt. But I’m betting it’s worth it.

Battleground Mobile: Why (& How) to Prepare for the Future | Moz

As Eric says, the move to mobile is happening probably faster than you think. He has some great tips for staying ahead of the curve.

Arianna Huffington on the Science of Sleep and Success | Lewis Howes

There’s been a huge surge in information about entrepreneurs and health, and with good reason. If we’re not firing on all cylinders, we can’t really be successful. Loved this conversation between two favourites.

So what have you learned this week? Going to sign up to Instant Articles? Going to check out the new and improved Pinterest? I’d love to hear.

Stacey Roberts is the Managing Editor of ProBlogger.net: a writer, blogger, and full-time word nerd balancing it all with being a stay-at-home mum. She writes about all this and more at Veggie Mama. Chat with her on Twitter @veggie_mama, follow on Pinterest for fun and useful tips, peek behind the curtain on Instagram, listen to her 90s nostalgia podcast, or be entertained on Facebook.

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ProBlogger: Seven Steps to Combat Blog Content Thieves

Seven Steps to Combat Blog Content Thieves

Posted: 21 Apr 2016 06:00 AM PDT

It can happen to the best of us, usually a surprise, and often undetected – people online publishing your blog content like it was their own.

It’s an incredibly disappointing and frustrating experience – one that listener Grant has recently discovered. He asks:

"I just discovered another blog is republishing my content in full on their site. They seem to be scraping every post using my RSS feed. Can I stop them and is it worth my time to do that?"

Unfortunately the reality is that scraping sites are very difficult to bring to account, and often can’t even be contacted.

If it is another person taking your content and posting without permission, it is a good idea to reach out to them and ask for the content to be credited to you with a link to your blog, or removed completely. Some bloggers really do misunderstand and do it with no malice, but others might not be quite so innocent. You are well within your rights to ask them to do the right thing.

Copyright law is straightforward (you own any content you produce from the moment of creation) but is often misunderstood or ignored. It is not a requirement to put a copyright disclaimer on your blog (perhaps informing people they need to seek permission before using your content) but it doesn’t hurt to have an obvious reminder.

Duplicate content was also worrying in the past as Google frowned upon it, and it was upsetting to think that you would be penalised for issues that were out of your hands. Fortunately Google has gotten better over the years at understanding who the original author of a piece of content is, and I have stopped trying to chase down all the sites that steal mine.

Now, I just do a couple of things to identify that the content is mine when it is being scraped.

I include links to other posts in my blog
I include a link back to my blog in the footer of my RSS feed

Sometimes though, the thieves go one step further and strip out the links as well as not crediting the source – so I will go after them and at least try to get the content taken down.

In today’s ProBlogger podcast episode I outline seven ways you can outwit and outsmart the content thieves that take your hard-earned work and publish it like it’s their own. Everything from what to do when you first find out and how to check who the site is registered to, to contacting and legal action. Knowledge is power!

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