SEO Tycoon

**ProfessorJG** · 08-13-2006, 08:05 PM

What do you all do when someone steals content? There are many unethical people scaping my content, and now a competitor has just flat-out copyed it for the purposes of SEO. I'm pretty confident that Google will see that the content has originated at my site, but should I send this competitor a letter from my attorney?

Thanks In Advance;
Professor JG

**ProfessorJG** · 08-13-2006, 08:05 PM

Is there any way to report plagiarised content to the search engines?

**MK3Design** · 08-13-2006, 09:18 PM

I would deffinatly send the competitor a letter. He should take it down.

**quickblogdir** · 08-14-2006, 12:41 AM

hi, i think i have seen a tool for reporting spam and duplicated content to google, look at matt cutts website in the google category.

**freetraff** · 08-14-2006, 05:59 AM

And one of my affiliates purchased a similar domain and using special cloaker made his site look the same. The content was java which was ok as Google is not seeing it. But it took the same site title and description, and when Google might be doing the deeper view - the same content. That was a nice mess.

Still, a good email and everything is fine now. Ask the person to alter the content and put link to your site (if you are interested in the link from that site) - and this is how you will get benefit out of the problem.

**handsome rob** · 08-15-2006, 10:17 AM

You must file a DMCA complaint with the offender's webhost. If you e-mail them about a DMCA violation, they will usually get back to you with a list of everything they need, which will usually need to be returned to them in the form of a signed letter(which you can scan and email).

**Bookworm-SEO** · 08-16-2006, 03:40 PM

1) Send a letter.
2) Complain to the host, as above.
3) Use copyscape.com to find others.
4) Check how often/deeply each of you is spidered. It could be problematic if the engines see his site first. There's another resource, I think the wayback machine or something, that shows who posted what, when. Might reassure you/help your research.

Unless you're the actual copyer, trying to see how to protect yourself...