Content & Writing Tycoon

**gh05** · 12-26-2009, 08:44 PM

Hi,

I was just wondering how best to deal with stolen content? I was looking to see if I had any backlinks to my new site yet and noticed that someone had stolen an article from my site but changed all links to point to their own site. Not happy! I've just sent them an email asking them to remove it asap but i'm not sure of my rights here. It must be a fairly common occurence.

Also what hppens if you publish an article from your website onto an article sharing website? I have publiched one or two articles on ezinearticles and goarticles so was just wondering if I lose the rights too these or not?

Thanks!

**gh05** · 12-26-2009, 09:19 PM

After contacting the guy who took the content I just got this reply, not sure what to make of it!:

first of all thanks to bring this in my knowledge, Second thing I never steal anyone work..as you are using FTS system and this blog is attached with FTS system, they are sending content to this blog and you have grant them permission to do so(I suppose this if you are using FTS system to create backlink)...so there is no role of me to steal it or copy from your site in any way...last thing i dont have problem to remove it but before this i would request you to remove your account from FTS system otherwise this problem will occured again and i dont have time to check each and every articles on my sites..the contents are automated through FTS system..if you have still question or concern please let me know and if you want me to take action against Free traffic system then please let me know i am always favorable in fighting against this kind of action where people steal someone hard work.

I am online marketer not a thief...for your information i am not going to remove this article at this moment cause i want to forward a complaint to FTS system who have published your article on my site without your consent, they dont have any right to spoil my own goodwill...so please allow me some time so i can show them that you have personally mailed me for this and for proof i need to show this article too..so once they have sorted out matter at there end i will remove it immediately...as you can see even i dont have any kind of benefit from this article..all backlinking is going to your site...so dont worry...

i will surely remove it but first let me communicate with Free traffic system.

**colbyt** · 12-27-2009, 08:03 AM

When you publish an article on an article site you are authorizing others to copy and use your article. They should leave the link to your site in place. Many do but some don't.

That is the primary reason why is isn't smart to submit something that is already published on your site. Alway write a different article for the article sites.

**gh05** · 12-27-2009, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by colbyt

When you publish an article on an article site you are authorizing others to copy and use your article. They should leave the link to your site in place. Many do but some don't.

That is the primary reason why is isn't smart to submit something that is already published on your site. Alway write a different article for the article sites.

So if they don't leave the links in is there anything that I can do? I think one of my copied articles was taken from goarticles.com and ezine but all links had been changed to point to their own site and obviously they had changed 'author name' to their own.

Thanks for the advice on publishing different articles to article writing sites. Also, I suppose another reason for this is to avoid being penalised for having duplicate content?

**chrishirst** · 12-27-2009, 09:11 AM

There are NO Penalties for duplicate content

http://www.modtalk.co.uk/article/c-a...tent-the-myth/

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/the-go...e-content.html

**gh05** · 12-27-2009, 11:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrishirst

There are NO Penalties for duplicate content

http://www.modtalk.co.uk/article/c-a...tent-the-myth/

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/the-go...e-content.html

ok cheers.

**colbyt** · 12-27-2009, 03:20 PM

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So if they don't leave the links in is there anything that I can do? I think one of my copied articles was taken from goarticles.com and ezine but all links had been changed to point to their own site and obviously they had changed 'author name' to their own.

Since the article is on your site and the article site it will be impossible to say where they stole it. But either way, they stole it.

Send a letter to the website demanding they take it down or add they proper links. Give them a reasonable period of time to comply then file a complaint with their host and/or Google. Usually the threat of the complaint to a host or Google is all you need. IMO, 7 days is plenty of time for them to correct the problem.

**acwebguru** · 12-31-2009, 02:50 AM

I think that guy is lying blatantly and brazenly. If he has the permission to add the content of your blog in his website, the credit should be given to you. But he is intentionally keeping a mum on this issue and instead putting the blame on you.

**melovemoney** · 03-13-2010, 01:21 PM

The search engines give credit to whoever had the content up first, and duplicate after that is not given credit (at least I am pretty sure this is how it works).

As far as what to do about duplicate content, there isn't much. Unless you are a big site and someone copied your whole site or something then it's probably not even worth pursuing.

**ThailandForum** · 03-13-2010, 01:47 PM

^The search engines don't know who had the content up first nor care, some sites are continually spidered and some rarely spidered, some sites have strong authority and a copy and paste will rank higher than the original.

**Social-Media** · 03-13-2010, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by gh05

So if they don't leave the links in is there anything that I can do? I think one of my copied articles was taken from goarticles.com and ezine but all links had been changed to point to their own site and obviously they had changed 'author name' to their own.

Thanks for the advice on publishing different articles to article writing sites. Also, I suppose another reason for this is to avoid being penalised for having duplicate content?

First find out which site ezinearticles or goarticles or whomever they got a copy of your article from. Go to that article submission site and read the terms and conditions that people who suck down and republish articles from them agree to. Typically, as someone else stated, they agree to leave your links there as well as the author bio at the bottom to give you credit for the article and to give you backlinks.

If the guy is violating this by removing your links and/or the author attribution, then I would contact them (as you have done) and ask them to comply with the Terms and Conditions of the submission site where they got your article. If they refuse to, then contact the article submission site and report them. They'll cut them off from being about to download/republish their articles. Then I would find out who their ISP is and send a DMCA request.

In the US you're covered by copyright regardless of whether you've copyrighted the article.

I had this exact problem with a guy on blogspot. I submitted the DMCA request and Google took down his content in about 6 hours.

PS: They can typically add links to your article pointing to their site, but they are typically supposed to leave your old links as well.

**withhindsight** · 03-16-2010, 11:57 AM

Content gets knicked, there's nothing you can do about it, as long as it's not your entire site don't worry too much and move on.

**danmicheals** · 03-23-2010, 08:49 AM

Copied content rarely gets high SEO standing anyways. The best is still to write your own content.