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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Article Content Thieves