Article Content Thieves
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It’s really too bad that some people try to profit off of the hard work of others by stealing their article content.
I recently posted an article “DoFollow Blogs Versus NoFollow Blogs“ on Ezinearticles.com and GoAritcles.com.
I was happy to see that people were picking up my article and posting it on their blogs. Unfortunately, one of the first that I know about that picked up the article was a blogger who is stealing my article content.
This blogger has my article, word for word on his blog with no references to me, or my “About the Author” box. So, I did the work of creating a good article, and this idiot gets quality content for his blog with no, or very little, work.
It appears they scraped the content of the article and stripped off the Biography box. This is a violation of the article directory policies, but they won’t go after violators, it’s up to the author to go after them.
I noticed other articles on the blog, and I suspect they were stolen just as mine was.
So, I have sent the blog owner a nice message, asking them to give me credit. We’ll see how that goes.
This is the first time, that I know of, I have had an article used like this.
The only way I knew of this thief, was I have a Google Alert setup to look for the keywords “dofollow blogs”.
When I got my alert email today, I saw my article title. I thought great, my article is starting to get picked up. Then I went to the site to find there is absolutely no reference to me, or my site.
This type of behavior could make article marketing (Bum Marketing) absolutely worthless.
So, if you are doing article marketing I suggest you setup some Google Alerts related to your article titles so you can spot content thieves.
We all need to be diligent on finding these people, and confronting them nicely. Then, if they take no action, we need to contact their web hosts and report them for copyright violations.
Oh great…the email I sent this person is a bad email address - I should have known that. So, now what do I do? Try to find them with Whois?
Guess I’ll try to find an email via their whois info.
If any of you have experience with this content theft kind of thing, please leave your experiences in the comments.
Mike
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I hate to say it, but this type of problem is very common with article sites such as the ones you posted to. However, you were very smart to set up a Google Alert to track your post, a great idea for many reasons, and you seem to be doing the right thing to handle it.
However, most likely, it is going to come down to you asserting your copyright and getting the offending sites shut down. You probably will have to file DMCA notices on these sites at some point.
If it comes to that, please let me know and I’ll gladly do what I can to help.
No matter what though, best of luck with this and don’t hesitate to drop me a line if there is anything that I can do.
It’s sad to see it happen, but won’t Google slap the guy with duplicate content?
Hi Again Mike,
Some of the tips I’ve read in the past say to put a little hidden gibberish code at the end of your article and use Google alerts with your code as keywords.
That way, unless you have a very unique article or title, your code (ex.gibberish) will make it easier to find.
Mike
Google alerts is a great way to track people stealing your stuff. A lot of people are also creating auto blogs that pull content from your rss feeds, and produced content without them even have to do a thing. Sometimes they even end up ranking better than the original. Sad.
These are the dilemmas most bloggers face..it was wise on your part in setting up the google alert..
Stealing is not a good thing, especially taking the hardworks of others without their permission.
i hate thieves they really piss me off!
However, most likely, it is going to come down to you asserting your copyright and getting the offending sites shut down. You probably will have to file DMCA notices on these sites at some point.
If it comes to that, please let me know and I’ll gladly do what I can to help.
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well, that hurts-someone stealing your work without giving due credit. Hope that thief either gave you credit after your message or removed the article. Let us know what happened.
HI,
Nice insights, and i would like to suggest use copy scape for finding your duplicates.
let’s try copyscape.com
thanks for sharing.
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