As I am sure you know if you write a blog, or read lots of blogs, that it is not unusual for the content of this to get scraped and regurgitated all over the rest of the internet.

This is usually not done with much thought about how this content is displayed. Its not uncommon to find identical content in these places, they don't even try to change it to pass it off as their own.

So to get some benefit in terms of SEO for your blog, why don't you link to another blog entry (like Craig's excellent first blog about "SEO Tips for More Efficient Meta Tags" or even another page of the site (like the SEO Tools that Vertical Leap offer on our site).

Then, when your content has been scraped by another site, at least we get the benefit of these links pointing back to the site, and you have full control of the anchor text used in these links.

I wont go into the pro's and con's of the practise of essentially stealing this content to display on pages full of adsense adverts. But if you can garner some benefits from this practise, that will occur regardless of whether or not you have approved it, then you may as well do so.

So make sure that you check out the real source of this Vertical Leap Blog rather than read it on a site that has scraped it.

Now I am just going to see how many different links that I can gain the VL site from this blog being scraped......