Add links when people cut and paste your content with Tynt

I interviewed the guy from Tynt a while back and asked him a few questions. You can see / watch it here.

Luci yes of course users can remove the link – you can’t expect to force people to add the link on their own blog.

It’s a unique idea, but it’s not going to help much. People who copy your content aren’t going to leave an attribution link in. Also, most of the copying that takes place is done by scraper bots rather than people copying and pasting, in which case, this wouldn’t do anything at all.

Im not liking how tweets are showing up in the comments box.
Most of them are not comments at all and are just re tweets.
its putting me off reading the conversation through out the comments.

Now this could be a nice trick. A lot of blog owners don’t really understand html or java.

The odd’s of a link staying in de blog of the “copy past blogger” are pretty good.

I guess a lot of these blogger really don’t mind is there is a link too the original post or article.

Look!… I don`t mind > Hypotheek adviseur

Awesome tool, thanks for the update.

Thanks Patrick for the coverage. Wanted to add a couple of interesting points:

- As you point out – we don’t force people to keep the link, but we are focused primarily on what we call the ‘casual infringer’, not the true content thief. The casual infringer is a fan and likes to spread your content but may not be aware of the correct protocol of always linking back, or may spread your content in an email. For the content thieves, they will always find a way to steal your content if they want it.

- We actually find that most people leave the links in place. We are currently helping over 180,000 sites on the web and tracking hundreds of millions of copy actions every month on the 6.5 billion page loads we watch.

- With the patterns we are seeing in the copy behavior, we have started creating a new and very exciting product to capitalize on an opportunity which is very unique. Watch for this in Q1!

If anyone has any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at feedback[at]tynt [dot] com .

Cheers!

Derek

If you want to test it just copy some text from this post into WordPress or another blog editor and see the link at the end.

Source: Add links when people cut and paste your content with Tynt

Doesn’t seem to work in Chrome

@jeremy – it does work in Chrome for me (using Chrome right now). We test for the major browsers (IE, FireFox, Safari) and are adding Chrome into the set, but as far as we know it does work in Chrome. This is the browser I use every day.

What is probably happening for you is that you are seeing instead of the URL something like this:
“If you want to test it just copy some text from this post into WordPress or another blog editor and see the link at the end.

Source: Add links when people cut and paste your content with Tynt ”

The ‘Source: Add links…’ at the end is inserted by Tynt. Patrick has it set on this blog to send a hyperlinked article title instead of the URL – which when you paste into this blogs comment system removes the hyperlink. If you pasted into Gmail you will see the link.

BTW, we are recommending that you always include the URL (a setting in Tynt) to make sure you get link credit when people paste into this type of system.

I agree with Rick…

We tried it for a while but ended up pulling it – for complicated reasons we often need to copy segments of our own content and paste it into input fields and it got just too irritating removing the link each time. We did find that people often left the link in, though – particularly when reposting to forums.

@Tynt,..

This works perfect in Mozilla firefox too!

If its working in all browsers properly, and tracks text, images, flash and other stuff also, then its a great website helping us to save our own things or if it been copied also, we will get free backlink. amazing man, i like to try it soon.

Superb idea, especially for content rich websites.

I think Tynt could be a great idea and could definitely help webmasters to create more one-way backlinks to their content or website but on the other hand, if someone is cutting and pasting your content and links into bad neighbourhoods or websites, is it going to have a bad effect on your ranking and seo? If so, is there a way you can monitor or even stop this from happening?

A slight problem, when I try to sign up for my domain.co.uk doman I am told that it is an invalid domain (should look like domain.com).

Does this not work for uk domains then ?

Lassan 2010-et írunk, már meg is jelentek a 2010-es menyaszonnyi ruha modellek

Read more: http://httpeskuvo.blog.hu/#ixzz0Y58ekbsB

A házasság ősidők óta két ember egymás iránt érzett szeretetének legszebb kifejezője, melynek jelképe a karikagyűrű. Jelképezi két ember egész életre szóló összefonódását. Szimbolizálja a szerelmet, a hűséget és a soha véget nem érő összetartozást. A házasság és a család jelentik társadalmunk alappilléreit.

Read more: http://httpeskuvo.blog.hu/2009/08/09/gyuru_10#ixzz0Y5gxvX2c

Wow I’ve never heard of Tynt before either, it’s pretty awesome. I find it amazing how much stuff is out there to be discovered, it seems like “literally” I learn something new every day.

Thanks for the post.

Miles Hennis

I notice that site using this script, text can’t be selected as usual only if you double click to get the selection.

Hello, I’ve visited a couple of websites now that insert these unwanted links into my copy and pastes. When it happened a couple months ago, that particular website’s content was in decline anyhow, so it wasn’t much missed. But now more important providers (like the Daily Mail as you point out) have started using it.

Much of the discussion I have with my colleagues happens over instant messaging (we all work remotely), and this new “feature” is incredibly invasive, especially considering we usually send the link up front before we start quoting (so we’re all discussing the same thing). How do you turn it off?

Awesome service for content rich websites like article directories. Imagine the benefit that ezinearticles would gain if they implemented this.

This is just a guesstimate, but I would think at least 80 – 90% of their published articles that have been duplicated and republished, loose their link sources.

This is just so awesome!

This looks great, plagiarism is a serious problem for me, and it has a serious effect on google rankings when someone scrapes your content, the links that this script add also have another advantage as when google sees two websites with identical content and realises that one links to the other, it automatically realises that the content really belongs to the site that is being linked to and correctly attributes credit. This is possibly even more valuable to alot of sites than the free links themselves.

Hello Guys. I read this article but i can’t understand what they said.Any one explain me how it’s working?

Thanks for always being the source that explains things instead of just putting an unjustified answer out there. I loved this post.

thank for the info, I never have read like this point of view.

best regards

Wow its amazing news for me now links should be paste trough Tynt great.

at first i thought it was pretty easy but when i tried to use it it’s really difficult and i got really confused of it. but i am now glad that i fixed it and I understand it now.

Wow its amazing news for me now links should be paste trough Tynt great.