Protect your blogs adsense revenue

Posted by stuart as , , , ,

There’s a lot to be said for how easy weblogs make it to bring in adsense revenue, but is someone else stealing your content and making money from your blog?

Most blogging software allows readers to use RSS feeds of your content, and anyone with even a modicum of web development knowlege can take your RSS feed, incorporate it into their site, with their google ads, and steal your adsense revenue.

This raises an interesting question - whilst RSS feeds are a great way to promote your site, thus increase your adsense revenue, you don’t want people stealing your content.

Luckily, Wordpress users (and probably most other blogging software) have a way to protect their adsense revenue. The secret is to syndicate only a part of your content. Allow the RSS feed to scrape the first paragraph, thus forcing the reader to your site if they wish to read the rest of the article.

Instructions:

Go to “Site Admin” -> “options” -> “reading”

Look for the “Syndication Feeds” section, and hit the “Summary” button.

Now hit the “Update Options” button

Now your site will only send out a summary of your blog, thus protecting your adsense revenue!