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I would like to see a webinar about the top 10 tools and ways small business can increase their link building efforts.  Many small businesses (ours included), especially in today's economy, cannot afford the likes of a Distilled or a SEER Interactive, and are trying to get to the next stage with their link building efforts - trying to do it correctly instead of throwing darts at a board blindly.  We want to learn how to use a variety of free tools (and paid ones) to help improve our methods of creating and obtaining high quality links.

Hi everyone - hope you can help.

I have an e commerce store with lots of products.  I write unique, original  content for all of the products we sell.  I must be doing a good job because I repeatedly find my content being used in blogs, word press sites, and pay per posts which then link back to competitors.  I have the standard free copyscape logo pasted a the bottom of each page - hasn't deterred anyone.

I'm now thinking about using some sort of a cookie based software and installing the code on each page so that when they lift my content and use it, it will send a link back to that page on my site.  I have called numerous plagiarizers in the past and threatened to sue using the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act" phrase in the course of my conversation.  It's tiresome.  It's work.  I am thinking after many years of frustration, that if I can't beat them I might as well try using this type of cookie based script/software approach to at least garner a link out it.  And if the abuser catches it then maybe he'll stop mid stream and think twice about using...I mean copying my content.

Is using  this type of cookie/link back to us script a good or a bad idea?  How do you all prevent your unique, original content from being used?  And finally, if I'm looking at this from a positive link building standpoint (meaning, maybe I'm looking at it from the wrong angle), what is the best practice for garnering a link from this type of ongoing occurrence?

I would like to see a webinar about the top 10 tools and ways small business can increase their link building efforts.  Many small businesses (ours included), especially in today's economy, cannot afford the likes of a Distilled or a SEER Interactive, and are trying to get to the next stage with their link building efforts - trying to do it correctly instead of throwing darts at a board blindly.  We want to learn how to use a variety of free tools (and paid ones) to help improve our methods of creating and obtaining high quality links.