Website Pages - Are Yours Printable?
Thanks to the wonders of the WA community I’ve learned today something new about website pages and, presumably, website posts!
While reading a post published yesterday by Taetske, I clicked on a link which opened a post by another WA member, Paul, who explained the help available from a programme by the name of Nibbler.
Being inquisitive about the performance of one of my niche sites, I entered the site URL into Nibbler.
Analysis revealed that the Printability of the pages in that website is 0.0
Well, that certainly was something to new to me! Who knew that their website pages need to be suitable for printing? I most definitely didn’t know that.
In more ten years of owning a website it never occurred to me that anyone would want, or need, to print a page I had created.
How Does this Affect Copyright?
At the foot of my websites, and most others I expect, is a Copyright statement.
By making my website pages and posts printable, I’m guessing that totally disables copyright of the printed content.
I’m interested to learn of your thoughts, or experiences, with your own website pages or posts being printed.
Thank you.
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Good afternoon Valerie,
It never gets boring, does it? It is this or that which needs improving. Then Google and co will change the way they are looking at things and suddenly there is something new to take care of. It certainly keeps you on tiptoe.
Did you ever check your website with WebSiteGrader, you will see your website again from a different angle.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
Good Afternoon Taetske,
Well, no I have not checked my website with WebSiteGrader. That must be something I missed!! Oh dear, I will have to put that on the backburner for now.
As you have said - 'it never gets boring'.
Thanks so much for your response to this post.
Valerie
Good Morning Valerie,
Yes, put it on the list as it can be a real eye-opener, Having websites I have become a multiple-eyed person, dear me, sometimes a bit exhausting.
Here I have yet another bone for you to chew on. It seems to be really important so now when I rotate my posts I include checking all the links too. Strange Results Comparing Free Tools for 404 Broken Links Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
Interesting. I saw that post this morning too but skipped right over that graphic. I'll have to check to see how printable my site is. Never really thought about that.
I think Derek nailed in on the copyright issue though. The Google Gods would hit the smite button on anyone duplicating your content anyway. lol
Thanks
I doubt that many who do affiliate marketing would be thinking of how printable their content is. I certainly didn't.
As you say, I believe Derek has nailed the copyright issues with his comment.
Thanks very much KC for your response to this post.
Having looked at UK and USA copyright law I found the following.
"In fact, it is no longer necessary to even place a copyright notice on a work for it to be protected by copyright law."
Once you have written something on your website it is automatically counted as copyright to the author. The same applies to printed material.
Only the words are copyright, and not the idea the words describe. Basically, somebody else could use your idea but put it in their own words. They would only be breaking copyright law if they copied it word for word.
Derek
Good afternoon Derek,
As I write a lot of posts about things which affect our environment I would be very happy if somebody is inspired after reading my post to also write about it, the more the better.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
Thanks so much for that information Derek. I certainly was not aware that our published content is automatically copyright protected.
That's great information.
Awesome post, Valerie:) i knew that pages of a website could be copied, because I copied some of mine when I first started out. However, I definitely need to add a copyright statement to mine. Thank you for the reminder!
Blessings:)
Suzi
Thanks so much Suzi for your response to this post.
I'm sure you will be interested to read Derek's (aka firstlearn) comment within this trail. This throws a different perspective on the copyright of our published content.
With best wishes :)
Valerie
Think that my copyright statement forbids copying, but will need to check and it soon will do.
A very good point.
Do copy and paste into my hard drive if I like a post for future reference or my training, but that is for personal use, not download and print.
Stuart
Absolutely, Stuart. It's one thing to keep a post for future reference, but printing it is a different matter.
When I want to keep a post for future reference, I copy the URL and past it into an Excel spreadsheet file I keep solely for that purpose.
Many thanks for your response to my post :)
Hi Valerie, I shall be giving it a whirl. Interesting about the copyright. Maybe that comes into play if you then 'distribute' in some way ?
Hi Twack, thanks very much for your response. I've thought more about perhaps sharing website content, but can only think sharing or distributing would or should be done via PDF download, with copyright included.
Just checked mine. It's very printable , 10 out of 10 actually, but I was surprised at some other areas that need improvement.
Oh wow, Jim. Well done with printable results. Overall, I think Nibbler is a good tool. Even though that image in my post shows some good results there was a lot more to the report identifying some weak points.
Thanks so much for your interest.
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I never thought about that. Will check out nibbler
It certainly was a surprise to me, and just another thing to think about.
I hope you enjoy Nibbler, Mick. It does seem to be a helpful tool.
Thanks very much for responding to this post :)