One of the worries of site owners is whether duplicate contents will affect your site ranking on search engines, especially Google or will you get penalized by Google that brings negative impact to your site’s position in search results.

Fortunately, the recent comments by Google’s Matt Cutts says that scrapped content even has positive impact as scrapped site will normally have a link back to the original site or blog which will bring positive impact. And Google is good enough to identify which site has the original contents. Watch the video below.

But if you’ve been experiencing your site content is being scraped by many other sites or blogs, you’d have noticed some of them do NOT provide a link back to your original blog post or site. But you can have a little trick in your blog post to have these scraped sites to always have a backlink to your site by using one of the following two methods.

1. Always have internal link back to your older blog posts, category or tag When composing a new blog post, always have a few backlinks to your old blog posts, category or tag of blog posts that are relevant. Content scrappers will normally just copy everything, so once you have internal backlinks to your old blog posts, categories and tags, the backlinks will also appear on copied blog post on the scraped site.

2. Modify you RSS feed to always have the blog permanent URL stay at the bottom of each blog post If you use Wordpress, you can do this by modifying the file wp-includes/feed-rss2.php. Find where <content:encoded>…..<content:encoded> is and add in your site’s signature and also a hyperlink back to your original blog post such as follows:

After doing so, every new blog post will have the permanent link at the bottom on your RSS feed. And content scraper will normally extract your content from RSS feed and most of the time they will copy everything including the permanent link at the bottom of your blog post. But the downside is this method, a Wordpress upgrade will replace the wp-includes/feed-rss2.php, which you’ll need to edit the file again and put in the above. Feel free to let me know here if you have some other better ways of doing it.

If you’re one without invitation, you won’t get to play with Wave. Google Wave combines lots of interesting things in one, including email, instant messaging, blogging, document sharing, wikis, and multimedia content – a superb communication platform.

Many good things about Google Wave such as :

1. Single Point Of Access Just one common place i.e Google Wave, you get instant messaging, emails, blogging, office productivity and many of the features mentioned above.

2. Next gen communication channel It’s part email, part IM, part document, allowing you to share photos, text, videos and many more ….

Google Wave is definitely the potential competitor of Facebook and Twitter… It should be headed to be one of the online money makers, getting you to build your networks, promoting your products and services and businesses could turn out more easily using the Google Wave all-in-one communication and social networking platform.

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