Imagine if you could monitor every time someone copies and pastes something off your site. To make it even better, what if you can insert a backlink when you text is pasted somewhere else. It’s a great way for attribution, tracking what content is popular, and gaining some inbound links.

There is a service called Tynt Insight that allows you to do this. It’s a free service and there is even a slick reporting dashboard. You simply signup, generate your unique bit of JavaScript and insert it into your site.

Load time is barely impacted since the script is lightweight and Tynt’s servers have been super quick. There’s some customizable options offered by Tynt like changing the attribution link, being able to recognize the number of visits generated by these attribution links. You to see the total number of copies for text or images, see what pages on your site are getting copied the most, what words are getting copied the most and heat map overlays . Mike Wong at Tynt Insight is a great guy and Tynt’s product is jaw dropping.

I have Tynt Insight running on this site. Give it a try by copying and pasting a chunk of text from this site.

To get your own copy, visit http://www.tynt.com/