Feed Signature Plugin
By Rob Safuto on Oct 16, 2006 in Observations, RSS, Security, Social Media, WordPress | Tags: Plugin , RSS , Security , Sig2Feed , WordPress
Neville Hobson just pointed me to an excellent WordPress plugin called Sig2Feed.
The plugin will add a customizable signature to each of the posts in your RSS feed. The main purpose of this feature is to direct people back to your site if they happen to stumble upon your content through another site that is aggregating your content. In many cases, other sites will redistribute content in order to be picked up in search results and then earn money via Google AdSense.
Most people consider this illegal use of their content but you are still unable to stop it if you publish RSS feeds. Like Neville, I choose to continue to publish full content RSS feeds. And if fools continue to suck up my content, users who encounter my posts elsewhere will be directed back to my site where they can subscribe to the real thing.
[tags]Social Media, RSS, Security, WordPress, Plugin, Sig2Feed[/tags]
