Blogging Battles: How to Handle Virtual Malice and Content Theft #writers #blogging
Blogging Battles: How to Handle Virtual Malice and Content Theft (via The Blog Herald)
Blogging is hard as it is. You read everyday, write like your life depends on it, put your experience, thoughts, insights, and opinions into each blog post, not to mention back them up by research.
You’ve been marketing your blog and getting traffic in spades. Ever so slowly, your blog seems to be growing in popularity and reach. Your readers begin to engage with you, comments seem to be flowing in, and a community begins to develop.
All of that is good until you hit the point most bloggers dread: you also begin to receive malicious comments or hate mail.
While you are struggling to deal with flames, you also realize that others have been gleefully stealing some or most of your blog posts.
Now, that’s bad.