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<h2>Etiquette</h2>
<p>You would think that people who publish syndication feeds do it with the
intent to be syndicated. But the truth is that we live in a world where
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_linking">deep linking</a> can
cause people to complain. Nothing is safe. But that doesn’t
stop us from doing links.</p>
<p>These concerns tend to increase when you profit, either directly via ads or
indirectly via search engine rankings, from the content of others.</p>
<p>While there are no hard and fast rules that apply here, here’s are a
few things you can do to mitigate the concern:</p>
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<li>Aggressively use robots.txt, meta tags, and the google/livejournal
atom namespace to mark your pages as not to be indexed by search
engines.</li>
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<dt><a href="http://www.robotstxt.org/">robots.txt</a>:</dt>
<dd><p><code>User-agent: *<br/>
Disallow: /</code></p></dd>
<dt>index.html:</dt>
<dd><p><code><<a href="http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/meta-user.html">meta name="robots"</a> content="noindex,nofollow"/></code></p></dd>
<dt>atom.xml:</dt>
<dd><p><code><feed xmlns:indexing="<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/lj_dev/696793.html">urn:atom-extension:indexing</a>" indexing:index="no"></code></p>
<p><code><access:restriction xmlns:access="<a href="http://www.bloglines.com/about/specs/fac-1.0">http://www.bloglines.com/about/specs/fac-1.0</a>" relationship="deny"/></code></p></dd>
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<li><p>Ensure that all <a href="http://nightly.feedparser.org/docs/reference-entry-source.html#reference.entry.source.rights">copyright</a> and <a href="http://nightly.feedparser.org/docs/reference-entry-license.html">licensing</a> information is propagated to the
combined feed(s) that you produce.</p></li>
<li><p>Add no advertising. Consider filtering out ads, lest you
be accused of using someone’s content to help your friends profit.</p></li>
<li><p>Most importantly, if anyone does object to their content being included,
quickly and without any complaint, remove them.</p></li>
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