Today’s featured free website tool is Tynt.com, a site that allows you to monitor who is stealing your content.  Tynt answers the question “What’s being copied from your site?”

How Tynt Content Tracking Works

Once you sign up for your free account, Tynt.com provides you with a small JavaScript code that you add to the pages on your website you want to track for content lifters – people who are copying & pasting your site content and using it without proper copyright or source references

Watch a Demonstration of how Tynt Tracer works

Every time someone copies and pastes information from your site, Tynt Tracer records the page they copied from and the text they copied.  You get detailed reports on how your site is being used, specifically in regards to how “engaging” your content is (e.g. is it good enough for others to steal?).

Keeping the Credit You Deserve

The best feature of the Tynt Tracer script is that when the visitor copies your content (or images) to their clipboard, the software automatically appends a link back to the page they copied the media from.  When the information is then pasted, the visitor/thief (depending on how you look at it) will have extra information in the form of a copyright source reference and link back to your website.  Links build value for your website, including search engine rankings, so anytime you can get a free link – you might as well.

Tynt.com Testimonials & Reviews

As the old TV show Reading Rainbow would say… “But you don’t have to take my word for it”:

This is a very cool (free) website tool that you can immediately start using to track the engagement of your website.  It doesn’t affect your site’s load time, so it can’t hurt.  You’ll be surprised at how often your information is being copied!

Try it out for a few weeks.  We welcome you to post comments regarding your experience using Tynt.com.