Is Bloglovin stealing your page views? BLOCK THEM! I work with a lot of hard working bloggers and when one of my clients came to me and told me about what Bloglovin was doing, I was just furious. I know how hard these bloggers work putting so much time and effort into their websites. For someone to just come and steal their content, all of it nonetheless was just nuts! I am sure that Google will catch on to their scheme sooner or later but there is something that you can do about it now.
Steps to blocking Bloglovin plagiarizing your content!
Log onto your website with your favorite FTP program. You can use FileZilla, Notepad Plus Plus, Dreamweaver or even log into your cPanel and access your .htaccess file. Put the following code at the top of the file.
[code]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^id=[^&]+ [NC]
# if referrer is bad.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (www\.)?bloglovin\.com [NC]
# then redirect to a different page
RewriteRule !^blog-lovin.html [L,NC,R=302],[/code]
The result of adding this code and blocking Bloglovin?
It will turn this…
Into this….
Will this affect my RSS feed?
No it will not affect your RSS feed. We are using htaccess the way facebook does to block sites who try to embed their content by way of iframe. As you can see below in my example of a1websitepro.net the RSS feed is still alive and active! 🙂 Bloglovin too will have access to your RSS feed but they will not be able to display your content in an iFrame.
Can other sites still embed and iframe from my site if I want them too?
Yes! This code only blocks Bloglovin. You can still embed in your own site and website that you authorize to use your content by way of iframe. You can see below I am embeding a1websitepro.net into webdevelopmentyoungstown.com. 🙂
Will you install that code for me?
Of course I will. To my bloggers on my servers it will be free just contact me. For everyone else. $25 Click here to buy service for editing code.
Video with help and instructions
Is there an alternative method ? – Try this FIRST 🙂
Yes there is. Add this code to your header.php file right before closing head tag. This will force the iframe to break out and give you a page view! 🙂
[code]<script type="text/javascript">
if (top.location != self.location)
top.location = self.location;
</script>[/code]
Blogger code
[code] <script type="text/javascript">
setInterval(function () {if (top.location != self.location)
top.location = self.location;}, 3000);
</script>[/code]
13 Comments
Hi Max,
This is interesting, but I have a question: On Bloglovin, when you blog page is loaded, who gets the credit for the blogger’s adsense if an ad from the blogger’s page is clicked? Also, I’m on Bloglovin, but if I recall, I did have to sign up to have my blog show up on there. Is it possible to simply revoke that or are you stuck once you sign up?
Thanks much! Jenise
You can put your adsense on any website and you will get credit {Money} for it if someone clicks on it. However when it comes to page views bloggers get more money from other advertisers that is based upon pageviews. If bloglovin is stealing your page views they will not show up in your analytics and then the value of your website goes down 🙁 . To answer the second part of your question blogger imports your RSS feed. This is good right? But then they change the url structure to an iframe that is on their website there by stealing your page view. The solution that I gave above Try this first is probably the best because a lot of people that were using Google reader went to Bloglovin.
Did this answer your question? 🙂
Yes. Thanks much Max!
Anytime! 😉
Hi Max,
A friend just notified me about this issue… a bit infuriating. Is there anyway to add the alternative method to a blogger blog? Or could I contact you to remedy this for me?!
Thanks, Kristin
Hi Kristin, Try this fix first. Put the code in your header.php. Code for header.php if you are unsure how to do it I can do it for you just go here and purchase my time for 1 hour and I’ll get it done for you. Puchase 1 hour time
I, too, had never heard of this…but wondered why I never saw traffic from Bloglovin show up in my Analytics.
So I did your ‘do this first’….added the code to my template, now every time I try to go to my template page in blogger settings, it diverts me to a ‘preview’ blank screen! I’m not even able to go back in to my code and remove it. Please advise!!
Where exactly did you add it? Was it in your theme header.php? Give me a call or google hangout me and I will walk you though the process.
Hi — thanks so much for your quick response! I put it in the main template, just after my analytics code, and before the header close.
Can you email me at this address with your phone number or contact info please?
Traffic from Bloglovin’ shows up in my analytics. It shows up as referral traffic from links like this: http://frame.bloglovin.com/?post=4729400045&group=0&frame_type=a&context&context_ids&feed_order&blog=14574001&frame=1&click=0&user=0
Just sayin’. I think it’s a lot like the code StumbleUpon uses. Which my stats have always registered as views.
Hi Elise, Mine does too however we break out of that frame so that visitors only see our website and not bloglovins at the top of our website. So if you go to our bloglovin page here https://www.bloglovin.com/blogs/a1websiteprocom-12952631 and click on any of the links you will see that we break out of it. This gives us a referral and accurate stats. 🙂
Thank you very much for the code. I put it in .htaccess and it works perfectly.
Glad it helped! 🙂