How To Prevent People from Copying from Your Blog

Plagiarism is a common reality these days especially in online weblogs. Reports have shown that there are hundreds of thousands of different blogs that work solely on plagiarized content. There are these certain content thieves that target quality articles and mindlessly post the entire thing word to word, on their own amateur blogs. Seeing someone else getting full credit of something you wasted your precious time on is no doubt frustrating and annoying but is also quite illegal. Rewriting however, by explaining something in your own words and/or providing backlinks to the original source is still somehow acceptable as it vouches for the sharing of information which would pretty much stay at a single corner of the world otherwise.

There are however ways and means to make sure that the direct copying does not work on your blog. One of the best ways to do that is to disable text selection on your blog as well as the right-click mouse button. By doing so, the viewer will never be able to select any text on your blog even if he/she tries the keyboard short-cuts (Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C). As for the multimedia (images, etc.), disabling the right-click button keeps them protected as you can’t save them without it. Now let’s take a look at how this can be done in Blogger:

• Step 1: Open up the Blogger Dashboard for your blog.
• Step 2: Click on Layout from the left panel.

• Step 3: Now click on Add a Gadget wherever available.

• Step 4: Select HTML/JavaScript from the list that comes up in the new window.

• Step 5: Enter a title for the gadget in the Title field and the following code in the Content field and click the orange Save Button. Code Sources: DynamicDrive and BloggingeHow.

<script type="text/javascript"> /*********************************************** * Disable Text Selection script- © Dynamic Drive DHTML code library (www.dynamicdrive.com) * This notice MUST stay intact for legal use * Visit Dynamic Drive at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for full source code ***********************************************/ function disableSelection(target){ if (typeof target.onselectstart!="undefined") //IE route target.onselectstart=function(){return false} else if (typeof target.style.MozUserSelect!="undefined") //Firefox route target.style.MozUserSelect="none" else //All other route (ie: Opera) target.onmousedown=function(){return false} target.style.cursor = "default" } disableSelection(document.body) </script> // Now disabling the Right-Click <script language=javascript> function clickIE4(){ if (event.button==2){ return false; } } function clickNS4(e){ if (document.layers||document.getElementById&&!document.all){ if (e.which==2||e.which==3){ return false; } } } if (document.layers){ document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN); document.onmousedown=clickNS4; } else if (document.all&&!document.getElementById){ document.onmousedown=clickIE4; } document.oncontextmenu=new Function("return false") </script>

Blogger will give you a notification confirming the saving of the script.

• Step 6: Open up your blog and try copying the text or saving the imagesJ.

You’re done, your blog is now copy-proof. Very desperate thieves can still however copy your content by taking screenshots and then writing from them, but I’m sure they’ll come to a good realization while doing that and will stop it further since it isn't that simple of a task.