5 Steps You Can Take to Protect Website Content and Pricing

October 22, 2014 Courtney Brady

Web bots and scrapers are huge threats to any site that has unique or proprietary content. They can steal images, scrape data, and use those stolen items for their own personal gain.

Fortunately, there are ways you can protect website content and keep your data from being used without your consent. Follow these five steps:

Include a copyright policy on your site. The first thing you should do is write up a comprehensive copyright policy. This should assert your legal standing as the owner and creator of all content housed on your site.
Set up Google alerts for your content. Go to Google Alerts, and set up an alert for a unique sentence or phrase from each page of your site. If these phrases show up anywhere else on the web, Google will immediately alert you via email.
Run your content through plagiarism prevention software. Programs like Copyscape and TinEye can search the web for any images, copy or media, which may have been plagiarized from your site. If you want to protect your website content from theft, try to use these at least once a month.
Disallow highlighting, copying and pasting. On WordPress, there’s a plug-in called WP-Copyprotect that allows you to lock your content in place. Then nothing can be highlighted or copy and pasted without your permission. If your site is not made with WordPress, a programmer can help you alter your site’s code to do the same thing.
Use Distil Networks. Our bot-blocking technology can help prevent theft bots from ever accessing your site, and can help keep your pricing, content, images and other data secure.

Do you want to protect website content from bots and scrapers? Then contact Distil Networks today. Our cutting-edge solutions can help you stop content theft in its tracks.

About the Author

Courtney Brady is the Director of Marketing at Distil Networks. She comes to Distil Networks from a variety of start-up companies, routed in SaaS and DaaS solutions. Formerly the global communications manager at multiple companies, Courtney is responsible for developing the company’s marketing strategy and branding campaign.
Follow on Twitter More Content by Courtney Brady

Should Pay-Per-Click Fraud Really Be a Concern?

Pay-per-click fraud: it sounds like something only big businesses with big advertising budgets should be co...

Web Bots: A Huge Threat to Auto Shopping Sites

Though web bots are a threat to any site on the Internet, auto shopping sites are particularly vulnerable.

DISTIL NETWORKS' RESOURCES HUB

5 Steps You Can Take to Protect Website Content and Pricing

About the Author

Previous Article

Next Article

5 Steps You Can Take to Protect Website Content and Pricing

About the Author

Previous Article

Next Article

Other content in this Stream

Today, Distil Networks released its sixth annual report into the trends in the bad bot landscape, titled the “Bad Bot Report 2019: The Bot Arms Race Continues”.

In Forrester’s evaluation of the emerging bot management market, they identified the 12 most significant providers and evaluated them. Find out why Distil Networks is the number one bot manager.

What Is Web Scraping? Web scraping is a method used to extract data from websites. Often called screen scraping, web scraping software may access the web directly using a web browser or other means.

Bad bots are responsible for 39.9% of all ticketing website traffic. At the heart of the bot problem is the ticketing website and mobile app.

Distil’s Research Lab released its latest threat research called “How Bots Affect Ticketing”. The report is the first in-depth study into the impact of bots on the ticketing industry.

Four Ways Bots Attack Ticketers and Infinite Reasons to Be Protected: Ensure your reputation, customers, and data are safe from bad bots

What every C-Suite Executive needs to know about cybersecurity. The typical CEO doesn’t have time to worry about bot mitigation and cybersecurity -- until their company’s website is under attack.

Bad bots are responsible for 43.% of all airline website traffic. At the heart of the bot problem is the airline website and mobile app.

Airlines are constantly being attacked by bots. This webinar will explore the airline bot, seat spinning and look to book ratio problem in-depth and will explain who is behind these attacks.

The airline industry sees a significant amount of bad bot traffic compared to others. In fact, 43.9% of airline traffic comes from bad bots. But what does that really mean for airline companies?

Distil’s Research Lab recently released a new threat research report titled, “How Bots Affect Airlines.” This is the first industry-specific report into airline bots and analyzed 7.4 billion requests.

NGINX bot detection. NGINX is used as a reverse proxy, Distil Networks have the ability to bring incoming traffic to a single layer where actions are taken and HTTP packets can be inspected.

Industrial-scale ticket reselling is damaging to the ticketing ecosystem – diverting millions of dollars into the pockets of touts.

Download the Forrester New Wave Report on Bot Management for an overview of their evaluation of technology vendors to help cope with bad bot threats.

What Is Web Scraping? Web scraping is a method used to extract data from websites. Sometimes called screen scraping, web scraping software may access the web directly using either a web browser.

Being named a leader is a very proud moment in the history of Distil and reflects the expertise, superior technology, and vigilant service we provide to our growing customer base.

Nearly half of all Web traffic (46%) now originates from bots, with 19% from bad bots. It’s this 19% that causes the majority of problems. These are quite diverse in nature and vary from site to site.

There is some good news and bad news for IT and security executives in the latest bad bot report. The good news is that there has been an overall decrease in the number of bad bots reported.

The Distil Research Lab released their latest threat research report called Mobile Bots: The Next Evolution of Bad Bots revealing that sophisticated bot operators now implement a new technique.

In this mobile bots study, Distil Networks now sees 5.8% of all mobile devices on cellular networks are used in bad bot attacks.