Then you, my friend, have a copyright issue. There are lots of legal tools for addressing this, and they're all cheaper than wasting your energy trying to count

Then you, my friend, have a copyright issue. There are lots of legal tools for addressing this, and they're all cheaper than wasting your energy trying to counter the bots. If your free content is the sole source of your online revenue, then your reputation is your business. Nefarious crawlers who rebrand your content cannot, by definition, beat you to market. So you stand to gain much more by writing great content, driving readers to it as soon as it's posted, and filing the occasional DMCA takedown than trying to compete with plagiarists in a game of whack-a-mole.