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Bloggers pilfer blog posts left and right. AI sticks its grubby cyber paws into your precious blog posts. How in the Hades can you prevent someone from stealing blog content?
Someone or something waits around every corner to snatch your hard earned traffic.
What can you do to completely prevent this from happening?
Nothing. As your exposure grows you cannot physically keep up with dingbats who try to piggyback on your success. Organic traffic grows exponentially. Bloggers love that. But so do people using manipulative schemes to steal. I cannot explain what it feels like until you experience it yourself. Eventually you just have to let them go or you kill your scale.
Imagine playing whack-a-mole with content thieves. The hits keep on coming no matter how many thieves you catch red-handed.
But let us get back to the mind.
How to Prevent Someone from Stealing Blog Content: Surrender Your Fear
Thinking loss then proving loss with evidence is the problem to address.
Your mind makes the problem.
Your mind makes the solution.
Don’t worry guys. I will share practical tips below to lessen content stealing.
But do the mindset work first to conquer your fear of loss.
Otherwise it becomes nearly impossible to leverage successfully.
How can you do what it takes to confidently gain traffic if you feel terrified to lose content to competitors?
No blogger goes pro based on being scared to lose it all. Being afraid to lose it all scares you into playing small.
The Problem with Trying to Eradicate All Content Theft
Google is in duality. It helps bloggers. It hurts bloggers. That is duality.
Bloggers are in duality. Bloggers help bloggers. Bloggers hurt bloggers. That is duality.
AI helps you with brainstorming, outlining posts and spotting errors. AI hurts you by basically stealing blog traffic at the top of page 1. AI takes your content. AI passes it off as being AI-generated. AI references your blog – hopefully – but that may change one day. Roll with it for now. Control what you can control.
What happens if you leverage successfully?
Preventing traffic theft entirely becomes impossible in a world of duality. Bloggers prevent some theft. But no one eradicates all pilfering.
The more traffic and income you earn the more people try to capitalize on your success with manipulative schemes. Ditto with things like Google and AI.
Everyone and everything wants their pound of flesh.
What Is the Only Way to Fully Prevent Traffic Theft?
Stop paying your domain and hosting bills.
Disappear your blog.
But none of you wish to take that route.
Set a goal to dramatically reduce blog post snatching.
Follow a few practical tips to lessen content thievery.
How to Prevent Someone from Stealing Blog Content: Practical Tips
Follow these steps to lessen the likelihood of someone stealing your blog content.
- write in the first person because no one can steal your story and make it their own; no one has your unique experience
- add personal stories to content to make your blog impossible to copy
- embed selfie-style videos to build a one-of-a-kind reader experience
- embed selfie photos to add a personal touch
- draw colorful analogies to throw AI off of your trail
- add spice to content; humor or edginess are basically impossible to copy
Look closely at the bullet point list.
How can anyone copy these strategies and claim the content?
Think it through.
Imagine if a lazy blogger or artificial intelligence copied them embedded a video of Ryan Biddulph speaking. How does that help the blogger or artificial intelligence if I gain brand exposure? Every selfie video embed basically becomes a backlink pointing to the Ryan Biddulph / Blogging From Paradise Dot Com brand.
I’ll take that, folks.
Ditto for embedded Ryan Biddulph images. Every stolen image points back to my smiling kisser. Does that hurt me or damage their credibility?
As for blogging from a first person perspective, AI or lazy bloggers cannot say “I did this” when Ryan Biddulph already did it from a first person perspective. I could sue but I would simple laugh and move on.
Why?
I am not a famous blogger yet built a strong enough brand to where readers could easily spot their fraudulent content.
Consider these thought bubbles popping up in the minds of readers:
“Hey! That’s Ryan Biddulph’s content! Hey! Ryan Biddulph already wrote those words! Why is this blogger talking about Blogging From Paradise Dot Com? Ryan Biddulph owns that site.”
No one can copy it without looking like a fraud.
Make Your Blog Original to Avoid Being Copied
Create something unique.
Add personality to posts.
Prevent content theft organically.
Follow a simple system to send thieves packing.
Do stuff that AI cannot do without looking purely idiotic or getting into hot legal water.
Embrace Duality/Reality
But once you play big it becomes impossible to stop all content stealing in some way, shape or form.
Erecting strong blogging barriers keeps theft at bay but also lessens exposure before potential loyal readers.
Observe the dual nature of this world.
Every gate preventing some theft also prevents some:
- customers
- clients
- referral traffic
- referral business
because keeping out *some* riff raff keeps out *some* customers in a world of duality.
We all need to set up blogging barriers but must accept the limiting nature of this practice.
Should You Not Employ Gate Keeping?
Nope.
Use a spam plug-in. Block spammer countries. Russia and China fall within this lot for many bloggers. Do what you need to do to prevent traffic theft and plagiarism. Embed disclaimers on your blog.
We live in a world of limits. No one who desires sanity opens their blog fully to the world. You will go bonkers. Spammers will drive you mad.
Set up enough blocks to lessen theft but not too much to prevent massive organic traffic.
Admittedly this is a delicate dance for successful bloggers.
Prevent some but allow most of the world in.
Quick Note About Spammers
I include spammers as traffic thieves because this crowd tries to steal free advertising and free traffic through your blog.
Spammers also damage your credibility in the process if garbage comments get published automatically.
Use an anti spam plug in.
Approve all comments manually.
I also close comments after 3 months to heavily reduce spam.
Conclusion
No one completely prevents content theft.
Scaling aggressively makes this feat impossible.
But following practical strategies curtails cyber thieves from snagging blog posts.
Your Turn: How to Reduce Blog Post Stealing
How do you prevent content theft?
What tips can you add to this list?
