gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » articles http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:53:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Get Notified If Other Websites Use Your Articleshttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/09/get-notified-if-other-websites-use-your-articles/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/09/get-notified-if-other-websites-use-your-articles/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:35:18 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=11055 One of the biggest problems for many webmasters is the unauthorized publishing of their articles on third party websites. Many black hat webmasters take advantage of other webmaster’s work by publishing articles from those webmasters on their websites. Many times without the actual consent of the original author of the articles.

But this is naturally not the only way how work gets reproduced on the Internet. Other websites may cite passages of an article in their own articles which is a totally legit thing to do.

Keeping track of all the websites and discovering new websites that use your articles can be a time consuming task. A manual way to track them would be to enter key sentences into Google to find the websites that are indexed in Google that are using at least that sentence of your article.

An easier way is to use a service like Fairshare. Fairshare monitors RSS feeds that the user enters into their form on the homepage. It creates another RSS feed that will add all the websites as feed items that copy at least 20% of the words of an article of the initial RSS feed.

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FairShare lists the percentage of the article that appeared on the other website, if a link back to the original site is present, if ads are displayed on the website and the url plus title of the article. Those information are excellent to discover the sites that are copying your articles.

It usually takes a few hours after adding a new RSS feed before the first feed items appear in the RSS feed of the copied articles. Fairshare will create another feed that posts a weekly summary of all the discovered items.

While FairShare is surely not discovering all websites that make use of other author’s articles it does a pretty good job at discovering the majority. The information provided are great to help webmasters depending on their use policy. Some webmasters probably only want to contact webmasters copying articles without linking back to the original content, others might want to ask websites that use ads to remove the content while some might want to ask all sites that copy 100% of their articles to remove them immediately.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/09/get-notified-if-other-websites-use-your-articles/feed/ 6 Read Divided Articles at oncehttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/27/read-divided-articles-at-once/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/27/read-divided-articles-at-once/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:45:24 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/27/read-divided-articles-at-once/ Many Internet websites have the habit to divide articles in tiny little chapters that sometimes require you to click ten or more times on next to read the full article. If you want to reread a part you have to click back to do so. I once again came by a website that used this technique, it’s Information Week and their article Top 60 Little-Known Technology Web Sites. Ghacks is unfortunately not in that list.

The article is divided into ten parts and you have to click on the numbers below each part to navigate to the rest. A far better way would be to scan the page for a PRINT button, because this usually opens a new window with the full article without advertisement and navigation.

I do use this trick for several years and it is working perfectly on those websites. The print function at Information Week opens the complete article at once.

A few words about why they do this, why websites divided articles into smaller parts. They are not thinking about the reader here, that they don’t want him to scroll the article for instance. They don’t want him to scroll the article for another reason, advertisement. It is all about ads on the page.

The longer an article gets the lesser ads you will most likely see. Ads tend to concentrate on the top, and maybe at the very bottom. Another reason for dividing up articles is the increase in Pageviews. Advertisers love Pageviews. If you tell them that your readers view 10.0 pages per visit instead of 1.0 page per visit they are impressed.

More pages also increases the time visitors stay on a website which is another important figure for advertisers. Oh, and you do earn more if you sell direct advertisement. If you get 1000 visitors per day and publish one article per day you would get 1000 pageviews if each visitor would read one article. If you divided that article by ten pages you would get a figure much higher, close to 10000 depending on how many visitors decided to quit reading because of the navigation.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/18/best-posts-of-the-week/feed/ 0 This weeks most interesting postshttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/21/this-weeks-most-interesting-posts/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/21/this-weeks-most-interesting-posts/#comments Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:09:27 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/21/this-weeks-most-interesting-posts/ I have decided to write a short summary of some of the more interesting articles that I wrote on every Sunday from now on. I’m not completely sure if you would like to see such posts here at my site but I think it can be helpful for all the users that access ghacks only on the weekend to check what I have written in the last six days. Please let me know what you think of this kind of posts.

If you are looking for new podcasts you might want to pay a visit to Odeo. They have a extensive Podcast directory featuring many categories like Tech, Politics and even Sex.

I always defended Bitcomet because it was my client of choice for a very long time. Just recently, thanks to comments from users here at ghacks, I have decided to switch bittorrent clients and use utorrent instead. I never came upon a faster client before.

Cloning hard drives is not that time consuming as it seems. How to clone your hard drives walks you step by step through the process.

Bang Howdy is a free tactical multiplayer game that plays in the wild wild west. You can choose to play different game modes and the developers constantly add new content to it.

The Music and Movie industry try everything to prevent their customers from making backups from their purchased DVD`s. This article explains how it is easily done.

Colonization was one of those games that I played excessively because it rocked. A great game which I personally think is even better than Civilization.

That is it for this week. I hope you like this little summary, remember to let me know what you think about this.

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