How to stop my site being stolen?

noor_u · **How to stop my site being stolen? -** 25-07-2008, 10:04 AM

Hi folks

I'm very new to seo, and am about to launch my very first website. I just wanted to know if there was anything in place to prevent someone copying the page source of my website, making a few changes to optimize it better, and just stealing my business?

My website is a simple, single page affiliate website - I'm advertising another person's product through clickbank.

Any info would be much appreciated

TWD-Tony · **Re: How to stop my site being stolen? -** 25-07-2008, 10:21 AM

There are a few applications available that you install serverside to stop people from viewing and copying your website's source code.

Have a look at some of these

http://www.aerotags.com/products/tlp.php

http://www.html-protector.com/encrypt/

There is a neat trick that someone showed my a while ago - it doesn't hide your source code but it does fool some simple people... Just put a massive space at the top of your files! Hit the enter key a few hundred times at the top of your HTML pages and when people click view>source they think they are looking at a blank source, when infact they only need to scroll down!

Look at it in effect here http://www.hypergurl.com/norightclick.html

One more thing to add - I'm not 100% sure what parts of your HTML code these systems will protect, if they protect things AFTER the <HEAD> tag then it's uselss to protect your META tags from view, if they do protect the <HEAD> of a document you need to make sure that the Search Engines can still read them!!!!!!

fisicx · **Re: How to stop my site being stolen? -** 25-07-2008, 10:28 AM

None of this is actually going to stop them strealing the words or pictues off the page. It's pretty easy to do a Ctrl+A and copy the whole shebang into an editor.

In any case, what's to prevent them contacting the affilitate themselves and setting up their own site. That's how affiliate marketing works.

Stationery-Direct.co.uk · **Re: How to stop my site being stolen? -** 27-07-2008, 09:17 AM

I agree, none of the above tricks work and it is very easy for somebody with a small amount of knowledge to see your code, don't worry about copycats and just concentrate on marketing your business and making a success of it.

noor_u · **Re: How to stop my site being stolen? -** 27-07-2008, 09:18 PM

Thanks very much for the advice guys, really appreciate it

I've submitted my site to google, yahoo and msn. Now I can sit back, read and further optimise my website, find ways to make external links and quicker ways to get crawled by googlebot etc.

Again, thanks

Birmingham · **Re: How to stop my site being stolen? -** 05-08-2008, 12:57 PM

promote your site more than your competitors so if they steal your content word-for-word they will be thrown into supplimental results for being full of unusefully repeated content.

what exactly are you worried about - the unique wording, or the structure of the page, or graphics, or what? the main part of a very dynamic site would often be the behind-the-scenes programming which sits on the server-side and isn't therefore publically viewable or teefable

proson · **Re: How to stop my site being stolen? -** 06-08-2008, 05:51 AM

yeah I agree.. don't worry too much about it copying or you can add things like copyscape

superb8effect · **Re: How to stop my site being stolen? -** 10-09-2008, 11:30 AM

Try www dot copyscape dot com to check duplicate content.

seo-man · **Re: How to stop my site being stolen? -** 13-09-2008, 10:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TWD-Tony

There are a few applications available that you install serverside to stop people from viewing and copying your website's source code.

Have a look at some of these

aerotags.com/products/tlp.php

html-protector.com/encrypt/

I couldn't see a sample of how the first one works, but please, don't use these if the methods used in the second link is anything to go by.

The entire page source is displayed in a browser using JavaScript. Search engines don't read JavaScript....I'm sure you can work out what that means to your website's performance.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TWD-Tony

hypergurl.com/norightclick.html

Using right-click blockers will do nothing to protect your images and everything to frustrate your users! My own mother showed me the simplest ways around these 'block right click' scripts....just left click the image and drag to desktop. Simple.

sitepoint.com/article/dont-disable-right-click/

When have you seen any respectable site (Amazon, BBC, eBay, Wikipedia etc.) employing ANY of these techniques? Never.

YooHee · **Re: How to stop my site being stolen? -** 26-09-2008, 01:41 PM

I think there are scripts that you need to put on your site to prevent copying of files like ctrl + C and right click copy....

i think...:P

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