Automatically Add Attribution Link to Copied Text In Blogger

Many popular websites and bloggers are using many software scripts to track their copied content.Because , many fake bloggers or readers can copy the content from blogs and websites for sharing on their blogs, emails on social media sites etc.Do you know you can track how many times someone copied and pasted your content.

There is a Free online tool available called Tynt that helps publishers (Blogger and Wordpress) to add JavaScript to their blogs and get results.A read More link along with creative commons attribution license, Facebook and twitter follow us links are automatically added at the bottom of the text copied from your blog. The script will work only if you copy a minimum of 8 text from blog.

Live Demo

Who Should Use Tynt?

If you have any tutorial blog and share a lot of codes then you should not use Tynt else you will troubleshoot your users with a lot of errors (due to a link added to the code). Other bloggers can use this tool for their blogs to track their copied content.

Video: Tynt Publisher Tools

How to Install Tynt On Blogs?

If you want to install Tynt on your blog then follow these easy steps given below:

• Go and Sign Up For Tynt Account
• Submit Your Email and In The Domain Field Submit Your Blog Address With adding http:// and the back slash (/) at the end of URL. Your link should look as follows:

example.blogspot.com
OR
www.example.com

3. Accept The Privacy Agreement and Click On Submit Button

4. Now You Will See Code. Do Not Copy It and First Click The Customize Script Button Just Below That Code

5. Then Click The Customize Attribution Button On Next Page

6. You can edit Prefix, Creative Common Licence, Facebook and Twitter Profile Links and Other Advanced Settings.

You can also decide whether to display the article URL or Page Title or both. Set URL tocanonical. Set placement to "below the copied text" for better chances of being ignored by the copier.

See the screenshot below for settings:

7. Click On Save Button

8. Copy The Code and Go to Your Blog (blogger or Wordpress). Inside Your Template Search For The Closing Head Tag

</head>

Paste the tynt script just above this tag.

Blogger Users 

• Go to Template > Edit HTML > Proceed and then search the tag.

Wordpress Users

• Find the head tag by going to Appearance > Editor > header.php

10. Save your template and its all done.

Visit your blog and copy a snippet of any text you like and then paste it anywhere (except notepad) to see the attribution links working just fine.

Track Reader Engagement

By going to your Homepage at tynt account, you will see 4 options to track the text being copied. 

• SEO: 
• Keywords: This is where you will see which keywords are copied the most 
• Content 
• Social