Yes really, mine. Of all the blogs they could steal, they could steal mine 
They are you know, they are going to steal it and clone and and do something with it that’s unimaginable (although I can imagine exactly what they are doing with it! 
). I don’t know which one they are going to take and I have no idea how they are going to get them, I just know they are….
What am I on about?
Cloning blogs/websites.
When someone writes an article about things like this I get all panicky and start to feel the pain, which is probably what the author wants. If truth be told, do we actually look after our blogs/websites and their security?
- Passwords – original for each site
But how many of us do that? Well I have already started to change them to different ones… it will take me a few more days yet, so your days of looking at my traffic stats are so over . How many of us are “admin” on our WP blogs? Why don’t we add another user as something different? Why do we make it easy?
- Image protection
Do we watermark our personal images? Do we protect them properly? Nah of course not, why would some one steal them? I have no idea as to the why, just that they do.
- Content protection
Ripping off others people content happens. It costs nothing and gains amazing goodwill to mention the source of inspiration of your content, but do write your own original words. Stealing content is common on the internet, more common than the above to if you ask me. Why? because it seems so easy to do, copy a page here, copy a page there – they’ll never find out. But they do.
Now this I know can be made very difficult for someone to do with a plugtastic plugin ((C) Joe) called WP copyright pro. It does a few things including
- Disabling selection(highlighting) of text
- Disabling right click on your WordPress blog, that’s right no right click and save as
- Protects from dragging and dropping images
Now, nothing is truly safe, but a few plugins like this, some simple security steps and their life has just become real difficult for the blog thief. Make it difficult for them please. Last October I got sandboxed by google - my website was hacked and malware was inserted without my permission. It took the Blogmistress 24 hours to sort me out and an hour to make me good with Google again. I was lucky and she is talented. In total it cost me £23,000 worth of business just before Christmas. Life became tough for me as I didn’t make it tough for them.
Go make it tough.
Now. Cracks whip very loudly…. (well the Blogmistress did put it down for 5 minutes )
Sarah
PS if you have other ways of protecting your sites, feel free to share them here.
PPS if you don’t use WordPress, have a look at this article by HyperGurl, right click disabled
