Combating blog article theft by delaying RSS feeds

Re:Combating blog article theft by delaying RSS feeds by hyperpape on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @12:51PM (#18016897)

Is this just not a problem in practice, or is there some technical barrier I'm not thinking of here? I'm imagining a system where you say "hey Google, I'm about to post content X" that you do right before it goes live on your site. No race condition.

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Re:Combating blog article theft by delaying RSS feeds by d2wa on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @12:54PM (#18016923)

Only Yandex has something where you can inform them of upcoming articles/links before you publish. (As mentioned in the article.) https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/authored-texts/owners.h...

If you ping Bing or Google before you publish, they’ll get a 404 and will take that as a sign that there is no content there. They also will wait longer before trying to reindex a page that previously returned a 404.

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Re:Combating blog article theft by delaying RSS feeds by DenisM on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @01:35PM (#18017373)

Make a visible but unlisted URL, ping search engines, wait 5 minutes, list / link the URL from the home page of your site, publish the URL to RSS. Solves the 404 problem, doesn't it?

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Re:Combating blog article theft by delaying RSS feeds by d2wa on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @02:03PM (#18017639)

I experimented with this too. However, I found that just delaying the RSS feed produced the desired results.

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Re:Combating blog article theft by delaying RSS feeds by hyperpape on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @01:47PM (#18017508)

It seems to me that Yandex is doing the right thing.

Why does Google not do the same? It seems to me that it's their responsibility as a search engine to give authors tools to identify their work.

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