(Sorry about that loud helicopter lol.)

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Keeping your tweets protected becomes a bigger issue if you use Twitter for business than if you use it for pleasure. But nonetheless, it can be done and here are a few things that I would suggest if you are looking to make your tweets more secure.

1. Visit TweetCC where you can obtain a free Creative Commons License for your tweets. Now there are different types of licenses that you can get so make sure you take a look at what is offered before making a decision.

2. Protect your tweets through your Twitter Account. Now in doing this you can control who is able to see your tweets and who is not, but keep in mind this may decrease the number of new followers you have because people will want to be able to see your tweets before following you. If the number of followers you have is not a pressing issue you can go to your Twitter settings and at the bottom their is a box that you need to check in order to protect your tweets.

Is this really necessary?

Now if you use Twitter for personal pleasure then this wouldn’t be very necessary. But if you are using Twitter for business it is a very good safety precaution to make. The thing about doing anything online, you can expect people to have enough respect for you not to steal the content you put online. There are some people out here that just don’t care and will steal other people’s work and take the credit for it.

This is just one of those situations where I would say that it is better to be safe than sorry. And although I offered you 2 options for protecting your tweets, I personally use option 2 – tweetcc. The reason for this is because I don’t like to risk losing follower just because I have to approve them to see my tweets first. But that’s just my opinion. Just do what works out best for you and be safe.

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Now this is a problem that a lot of bloggers experience, especially those that are new to blogging. And I don’t know about you, but it is so freakin annoying to me because I do the research to put a good post together and then some idiot comes along and steals my work. But there are some things that you can do to protect your blog posts a little better. Here’s what I do…

1. Install the WP-CopyProtect plugin so that you can disable the right click function as well as the copy function on your blog. But don’t stop here because people can still look at your RSS feed and steal your content.

2. Go over to your RSS feed (or Feedburner if you use it) and make sure that you are only displaying summaries of your blog posts. That way that your entire post cannot be stolen if they try this method.

3. Install the WP-PreventCopyBlogs on your blog so that you can track the ip address that is trying to copy your content. This is important for the next step.

4. Install the WP-Ban plugin. This will enable you to ban any  ip addresses or hostnames that are visiting your blog. Now if you find that people are trying to copy your content and an ip address is provided then you can simply plug the ip address into the ban database and they would not longer be able to access your blog.

These are 4 techniques that work really well for me, and I am pretty sure it will work for you as well. If you need any help setting this stuff up just let me know.

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