Yea, you read it right! I am asking this question because I am certain that there are countless number of bloggers who are not blogging smart. When I say “smart blogging” it’s planned and strategic blogging after appropriate keyword research.

It’s often observed that several “internet marketing Gurus” on the web quote, re-quote and repeatedly quote the below few statements:

1. Content is the King
2. Try to write every day and improve frequency

I don’t comment saying the above two points of advice are wrong, intact these are part of a good approach of building quality content on your websites. BUT, it’s not correct to limit the advice right there, you should try send the right message across to your readers by mentioning the importance of content and keyword research before stuffing articles on the blogs.

How to do Smart Blogging: well there is no structured operating procedure for being writing smart, it’s all about using the combination of right methods and tools to identify the demand vs supply ratio of topics on the web.

It’s smart to write 5 articles that are found on search engines at the top 3 results rather than writing 20 articles that don’t appear even on the first page. The ideal approach towards smart blogging should be:

The Best Free CopyScape Alternatives

If you already aware of CopyScape that’s great! Else it’s a web based portal that will help you to identify duplicate content on your web pages and its one great way to find out copied content. If you are interested to learn more about the best methods to prevent content theft from your website, you could read the article published at Orangecopper Blog earlier.

DMCA Takedown Guide for Webmasters

Digital Millennium Copyright Act often referred as DMCA is a United States copyright law that is employs the treaties of the World Intellectual property organization. In a nutshell, it helps control and protects the access to copyrighted works.

What is a DMCA Takedown Notice?

DMCA Takedown notice is a notice sent to webmasters by copyright content or intellectual property owners to persuade website owners to take down supposedly infringing content that on the target website.

DMCA Takedown Notice Letter sample or example

If you want to know more about DMCA and DMCA Take down notice, you could read my article on Webmaster’s guide to DMCA Takedown Notice. A DMCA takedown notice is usually sent to web hosting company (ISP) hosting the infringing content publishing website. Below are the important points to include in a Takedown notice:

• Notice as per the 17 USC 512(c)(3)(A) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”)
• Subject that clearly speaks about the Copyright Infringement.
• Original copyrighted content destination URL or link.
• Infringing material location or website with all details.
• Your contact information and details.
• Your digital signature or if required a signature in writing (scanned or snail mailed)
• Mention that you are writing in good faith belief that you have not authorized the usage.

Sample DMCA Takedown Notice Letter

How to prevent auto blogs feeding from your WordPress blog

In this era of internet marketing, there are a huge number of sbloggers or copy bloggers who spawn a number of auto blogs with the help of free auto blogging tools.

As a webmaster, we spend endless hours writing quality articles and content to provide value to our readers and the internet. To protect your blog content from being used for auto blogs you should be keen and careful.

• Have your defenses against content theft
• Identify copied content on the internet and auto blogs
• Contact and get the content removed.

Article content spinning software: Without doubt article spinning is a vastly spreading trend now on the internet for content writers and SEO professionals on the internet who want to improve the pace of their link building and marketing activities. Lets start with what is article spinning.

What is Article spinning & what are the Ground Rules?

Just as the name suggests, its basically spinning an already indexed or already written article into a unique article that can be further used on a different website or ezine. The advantages of spinning articles are many. The main reason why experts prefer article spinning is to save tones of hours of man hours to re-write or craft a new article that has the same content.

Ground Rules

• NEVER Spin other author’s articles
• Spin your own write ups and not more than 3 – 4 times