Content scrapers – worth disabling feeds?

  • It looks as though a few content scraping sites are using our feed urls to duplicate our content illegally.

    Is it worth removing the feeds option from our website and if we did, are there any SEO implications from doing it?

    Thanks

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  • You can add a backlink to each Feed item, I believe Yoast’s SEO Plugin allow this very easily. That said, if you don’t NEED feeds, you can disable them altogether:

    function disable_our_feeds() {
	wp_die( __('<strong>Error:</strong> Where are you going?. <a href="'. get_bloginfo('url') .'">Go back to the Website</a>.') );
}

add_action('do_feed', 'disable_our_feeds', 1);
add_action('do_feed_rdf', 'disable_our_feeds', 1);
add_action('do_feed_rss', 'disable_our_feeds', 1);
add_action('do_feed_rss2', 'disable_our_feeds', 1);
add_action('do_feed_atom', 'disable_our_feeds', 1);

    (Put this in your (child) themes functions.php file)

    Oh, actually I have forgotten the easiest solution available:

    Set your Feeds to only show “Summary” in WP Settings -> Reading.

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