So you have seen the term RSS and the orange RSS logo on many sites, so what exactly is RSS? Many blogs and news sites syndicate their content
Benefits of RSS
You do not have to visit each of your favourite websites individually to stay informed of their latest content updates. This saves a lot of time and makes it so much easier to keep up to date with news and information about things you are interested in. RSS can seriously make your life a lot easier! Also it’s free!
If you subscribe to an RSS feed on a website you are interested in, the feed reader will check the website for any new content. Any new articles will be displayed within the reader without you having to go back to the original site and check yourself.
You also don’t have to give your email address to the sites you subscribe to. This means you don’t have to worry about the site on-selling your email address or sending you spam email. RSS is an easy anonymous way to keep up to date with your favourite sites content and it’s very easy to unsubscribe (usually with just one click).
Stay tuned for my next post which will review free RSS Readers.
Registering a domain name is fairly simple process but for many actually finding a suitable domain name that hasn’t already been taken can be an overwhelming task. Many of the “good” and easily remembered domain names have already been registered and are not available.
Here are a few tips to help when choosing your domain name:
Try and make your Domain Name easy to remember and easy to spell. If possible choose your exact business name otherwise try and use words that describe your product or service.
A Domain Name can be up to 63 characters long and can use only letters, numbers, and dashes (-).
Short Domain Names are usually better than long ones but many of the short domain names are already registered, so if you have to choose a long domain name make sure it is memorable and easy to read.
Domain Names are not case sensitive. TipsForWebsiteDesign.com will work the same as tipsforwebsitedesign.com.
If you are aiming to have a worldwide audience be aware of spelling variations for certain words and avoid using them in your domain name e.g. color and colour, center and centre, jewellery and jewelry
Not every case of content theft is done with intent and there are many website owners who are unaware of what constitutes copyright law with regards to website content.
Keep records
Keep a record of any pages where you have found your website content.
Take screenshots of the page and take copies of the HTML code as well.
Check if there are references to your site
Make sure the site owner hasn’t made a reference to where he obtained the content from.
Contact the owner of the site
Most websites should have a page with contact information. If they don’t, then use Whois to find out who the site owners are. Send a professional email to the owner and ask them to remove the stolen content.
Notify the ISP that is hosting the site
Send their ISP an email advising them of the site that is hosting stolen materials. If the ISP investigation finds that the site is using stolen content they can remove the website from their server.
Report the site to Google AdSense if they are hosting Adsense advertising.
You can email adsense-abuse@google.com and inform them that the site is earning revenue off your stolen content which is a violation of the Google AdSense Terms of Service. More information about how to report this can be found here.
