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Good afternoon all! I have a little bit of a problem and would like to know if anyone has any ideas for me.
Over the last several weeks I have found several articles that I have written, either through my penname or posted on my website, that have been published on other websites. These articles that are on the other websites don’t have any reference to the original owner (me), nor do they have any of my links.
I have contacted the owners of a few of the websites, and hope that they take care of this. Two other websites have pretty much ignored me, so I filed a complaint to Google. It really frosts me to find that they are better placed in the search engines than my original article!
I know that writing up-to-date articles is necessary, but it seems that all of my hard work isn’t benefiting me as much as the “article thieves”.
Is there any way to get a handle on this, or to make it more difficult for people to steal the articles from you? This is just so blatantly wrong. It is really making me crazy right now!
Any help would be appreciated!
Hi Jaqi,
First and foremost, we’re sorry to hear that you’re experiencing this.
It is unfortunately a common theme as an affiliate, so you need to police it constantly. I would suggest you start here: Copyscape – Responding to Online Plagiarism
As far as making it more difficult for people to steal articles from you, you can do things like disable right click, etc. but at the end of the day if they really want the content, they can get it. i would advise you to sign up for copyscape and to display their “protected by copyscape” deal on your homepage to deter thieves.
Hope this helps.
Thank you so much for the advise! I checked out the “Copyscape” site, and it contains exactly what I need to pursue these thieves..
I also received some good advise from my son, Adrian (Live Casino Partners). He recommended that I publish my article on one of my websites first. Then, after it is indexed, that I could submit it to the various article distribution websites. This would at least show Google that the article was indexed on my website before others, and should go a long way in proving that I am the original owner.
I am still waiting Google to respond to the last complaint that I sent. It does take a while for this process to move! Kind of liking rolling a boulder uphill, in my opinion!
Thanks again!
Obviously this is a common problem, and I would like to thank Warren for the valuable source.
My first experience with plagiarism was bad… The thief got my article indexed on his website before it was indexed on my website :banger: and not only that – he posted a link to my article with some extra parameters (which reminded me to use canonical tags, so it had a benefit after all). Eventually I had to re-write the article on my site in order to distinguish it from the original version.
I imagine that Google is well aware of who is the original source, either by indexing chronlogy (and making sure that your articles are indexed immidiately after publishing them is a MUST!) or by marking some of the content farming sites as prone to steal articles because they included a high precentage of copied material. So basically as long as my articles are indexed immidiately I feel safe.
I do, however, hate those thieves and would love to something about it. My partner just had a brilliant idea: why wont we post the domains that stole articles from us (only with moderation regarding proof that you are the original article’s owner of course) and form some sort of blacklisted sites.
What do you all say? I would gladly reveal the site that stole my article. His owners deserve being ostersised by the affiliate community, and many more do too, unfortunately.
@Omer 3D Poker 230401 wrote:
why wont we post the domains that stole articles from us (only with moderation regarding proof that you are the original article’s owner of course) and form some sort of blacklisted sites.
No takers?… I thought it was a good idea… :flush:
