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Hey, that’s my content…

I’m seeing my content showing up on more and more random web sites - sites that I certainly haven’t given permission to republish my content. Some don’t even give any type of link back or credit.

Annoying.

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Posted December 17th, 2005 @ 12:52 AM

10 Replies

Roy Schestowitz adds this Comment:

This happens sometimes. Don’t spend your time or lose sleep over it. The process needed to remove such posts is unnecessarily cumbersome. Podz and Mike Little had people copy their entire site systematically, which can lead to mirror/duplicate penalties. Keep an eye on the dodgy sites.

December 17th, 2005 at 2:26 am
Jørgen Arnor Gårdsø Lom adds this Comment:

Then, just imagine how pissed off you’d be if someone did this; http://rsstoblog.com/ to you…

December 17th, 2005 at 4:49 am
John Horne adds this Comment:

I think it’s interesting that comments are closed on that stolen post.

December 17th, 2005 at 6:28 am
Tim Verpoorten adds this Comment:

Alex,
I’m a bit puzzled, the link you gave in the article was to a website that has nothing but direct links to the original story. I do all I can to have other websites link back to my articles I write on my blog.
If they copied the article on their website as their own, that’s one thing, but a link to the original story is what we’re all looking for to create traffic to our sites.
What did I miss here?

December 17th, 2005 at 9:26 am
Alex adds this Comment:

There is no link back to my site in that copied post (original post is here).

December 17th, 2005 at 9:38 am
danithew adds this Comment:

I also find it interesting that the post comments are closed. Coward plagiarist is what he is.

December 17th, 2005 at 1:42 pm
Tim Verpoorten adds this Comment:

I see what you mean now Alex, the whole post was yours! .. that’s pretty crappy to say the least.

December 17th, 2005 at 3:52 pm
Kasper Hyllested adds this Comment:

Here in Denmark that’s illegal. I run www.pocketfreak.dk and once another website copied our articles without permission.

I’m a professional journalist, so I contacted my union, and they adviced me to send a formal letter to the website owner, demanding a compensation for illegal copying my content.

December 18th, 2005 at 4:36 am
John Tokash adds this Comment:

It’s happening to Michael Arrington, too.
http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=92

One of the commentors on his post mentioned this site:
http://www.copyscape.com/
“Search for copies of your page on the Web.”

December 20th, 2005 at 11:34 pm
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