How to protect your content from scrapers

I noticed quite a lot of my sites have been heavily scrapped latelly by lots and lots of automated bots… That’s why i decided to investigate and find out how could i stop them.

After doing a little bit of research and reading a couple of good materials (like this one and this one), i decided i should use the following two plugins:

• Simple Feed Copyright WordPress Plugin – a very simple plugin that adds a link signature at the end of your feed. Thus, even though bots still scrap your content, you’ll get a Link in the scrapped post.
• Owen Winkler’s AntiLeech WordPress Plugin – this one is a little more advanced… It does not prevent bots from scrapping content, but it produces fake content especially for them, with links towards the original site. You can add "flagged sites" by IP and lots of other functions. Not sure exactly how it works, but i’m testing it right now. 

That’s about it for now. I’ll keep them online for a couple of days and get back with the results.

Oh, and do you guys have any better suggestions to fight with content stealing? Some kind of plugin where you just put the stealing site and it automatically bans the IP of that site would be nice i guess. Any suggestion and advice is appreciated here .

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