I was reading about a service called Tynt over on Patrick Altofts blog and decided to test it. If a visitor to your site copy & pastes a chunk of your content into their blog it will appear along with a credit link. Explanation from Tynt’s faq:
Q. What is Tynt Insight? The short version…
A. Tynt Insight does a couple of interesting things: it tracks user engagement on your site by tracking copy and paste activity and automatically adds a link back to your content when it is pasted somewhere else.
Q. Do people really copy content?
A. Our stats show that an average of 6% of page views result in some kind of user action that Tynt Insight can track. What this means is: if your web site has 1 million page views per month then content leaves your site at least 60,000 times per month. Wouldn’t you want to know what and how often it leaves your site?
We’ve ran it for 48 hours on a site which has had 40,000 unique visitors and 65,000 pageviews, and so far we have picked up 5 extra links. I realise this isn’t a huge data set to draw conclusions from, but it looks promising.
There is no real downside to using it, its completely free. If it continues to pick up 30-40 completely natural links per week then we will certainly be happy with that.
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You can generate link reports and see exactly what content is bringing in links. Over time this will help you build up a picture of what scores links and what doesn’t, helping you specifically target the “linkable” content.
Martin Adams
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Thanks for the Tynt mention. We appreciate the SEO community support! We really want to make a difference in SEO, so please make sure you let us know if you have any ideas on how to improve our service!
Best,
Derek
it is possible to open again this service?
Is there any possibility that when people run Spybot or Adaware, links are got rid of?
It not malware or anything – this won’t affect links placed.