adding a glossary, do's and don'ts?

Google friendly but theft resistant , possible?

[amznVibe]

I have a nice collection of definitions I'd like to post on one of my websites to help visitors.

Are there any observations on what makes a Google friendly glossay and any ideas on how to make it a bit harder for content thieves to just copy and paste all my work in under a minute?

I know complete protection is impossible, but if I use javascript to slow theft down, Google won't be able to use it. If I break it up into 26 pages, then it might be hard for visitors to browse.

Any constructive thoughts are appreciated...

[musicales]

definitely break it up IMHO you can still make it easy to navigate with a bit of thought. The advantages of having each word and definition with its own page (and that word in the title and h1 tags) are immense for Google

[pageoneresults]

Are there any observations on what makes a Google friendly glossary.

Structure. Use of the

<dl><dt><dd>

elements. Cross reference links from terms that have similar or related meanings.

And any ideas on how to make it a bit harder for content thieves to just copy and paste all my work in under a minute?

I'm not too sure that is possible. If it can be viewed at the browser level, it can be copied. There really isn't a whole lot you can do in this case. But, if you set it up using CSS along with the definition lists, they will need to copy everything to get it to look and function like the original one.

An A-Z navigation bar at the top and bottom of each page is helpful. Use of the META Link Relationship Tag is of benefit too.

<link rel="prev" href="http://www.example.com/glossary/a.asp">
<link rel="next" href="http://www.example.com/glossary/c.asp">
<link rel="start" href="http://www.example.com/glossary/" title="Glossary of Terms">

Once you've got everything set up, head on over to Glossarist [glossarist.com] and submit your glossary for inclusion.