If you are the kind of person that frets and stresses over stolen content – don’t. At least, don’t worry if you’re wearing protection. What sort of protection – easy, an internal link or a link to your home page. I noticed that my post – The Politics Of Iran – Why I Don’t Care – was rather heavily scrapped – Now I have link protection, I am not too worried.

It’s very rare for scraped content to outrank the original. If it does, make a spam complaint to Google and that should fix that problem. If it doesn’t outrank you – why worry. In fact, if you include links to your own content, a scraped copy may just add to the number of inbound links you have. Sure, they are not quality links, but use decent anchor text in your links and it will at least help to boost your pages for that keyword.

Even Matt Cutts from Google agrees with this sentiment:

Here are two tips that may help.

• Place a link to your own content in the first paragraph – there are many scrapers that only take the first one or two paragraphs.

• Grap a plugin that puts a resource box at the foot of every post -  DDAdSig is one – check WordPress for more.

Now, to all those scrapers out there – please feel free to scrape my content – you may just make my day!