Comments on: I’m Truncating My Feed Too And Here’s Why

By: Sean H.

Sean H. — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:33:42 +0000

Hi Cheri,

I read your post and I believe there are alternative solutions you might consider. I’ll say up front, please forgive me for self-promoting but it seems very relevant to you current situation. My company Distil (http://www.distil.it) helps protect websites against web scraping and content theft, while improving the performance and load time.

Consider the impact: If you can stop the duplication before it happens, you’ll no longer need to deal with all Google takedown request you’ve been waiting on.

As a side note, it would be very interesting to see what impact the feed modification has your traffic over the next few weeks.

By: CHERI

CHERI — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:08:31 +0000

Thanks Maryann and Debbie. I will try to get some more info in a post by next week to help you navigate getting it done.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:38:40 +0000

I’ve seen a lot of bloggers doing this to protect themselves. I agree with them! Anything to stop the thieves and keep the credit where it belongs. When I have a minute, I need to look into this for myself. I am still a tiny blog, but are the fussy on who they steal from? And, can you do this when you are on blogspot? So many questions I need to find answers to.
Yes, I will still follow you! I am on Google+ and when I see a post I want to read, I will click on the site so I don’t miss anything. I’ll comment there and quite often still comment on the google board.
Debbie 🙂
Debbie 🙂

By: Maryann @ Domestically Speaking

Maryann @ Domestically Speaking — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 04:55:11 +0000

Cheri I will be joining the bandwagon too… hopefully I’ll have time in my schedule to make the necessary changes. You know I’ll still be popping in and sending you some love. 🙂

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:35:21 +0000

Cheri, I’m so sorry this is happening. I don’t blame you at all and I support whatever you and other bloggers need to do. I have no idea what it is to truncate your blog posts but I agree with it. 🙂

xo
Pat

By: CHERI

CHERI — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:41:16 +0000

In reply to Courtney. Courtney I just happened upon the most recent one. who knows how many are out there that I don't know about. Yes you should do something now. They steal good content.

By: CHERI

CHERI — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:39:31 +0000

In reply to Jessica. People who read in Google Reader are not clicking over to the blog so it is a bad thing for us because we don't get the click and that means we don't make as much money but Google Reader isn't necessarily stealing content.

By: CHERI

CHERI — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:37:30 +0000

In reply to Courtney @ Between U & Me. Thanks Courtney. It is too bad when people don't give credit back. I know there are times that people come up with the same idea around the same time. I have done it myself and you post it and see it all over. I like to thing they just happened upon the same idea at the same time. Unfortunately a lot of these people taking printables will just change a font here or there and say it isn't the same. yoou should add the disclaimer to the bottom of your feed too.

By: Courtney @ Between U & Me

Courtney @ Between U & Me — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:43:34 +0000

I completely understand! One of my biggest pet peeves are people that steal your hard work! I do free printables on my blog every now and again, and I can’t even tell you how much it bothers me to see my content on other people’s blogs and they are taking credit for my work and not giving any kind of credit back to me. I even put a disclaimer at the bottom, saying that I would love for the printable to be used, but please give credit back to me. Nope! There are people out there saying that they created the printable on their own! Grr! All the power to you, girl – and keep up the good work! We all love your content!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:11:11 +0000

Cheri,
I will still follow you! But I have a question, is Google Reader bad? I follow many blogs using google reader but I do not want to continue using the service if it is stealing your posts.

By: CHERI

CHERI — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:23:37 +0000

Thanks Jen–I will pop over to see what you are up to.

Cheri

By: Courtney

Courtney — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:59:54 +0000

I can’t believe this! I am so mad for you! I just discovered a handful of you great DIY blogs and they are all truncating. I must admit that I always thought it was annoying but now that I know the reasoning behind it I totally get it! I’m still following 🙂

How do you monitor that kind of thing? I’m not nearly as big as you wonderful ladies, but I’m beginning to wonder if I should do something before there is a problem.