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. 🙄
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. 🙄
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.
Then, just imagine how pissed off you’d be if someone did this; http://rsstoblog.com/ to you… 😛
I think it’s interesting that comments are closed on that stolen post.
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?
There is no link back to my site in that copied post (original post is here).
I also find it interesting that the post comments are closed. Coward plagiarist is what he is.
I see what you mean now Alex, the whole post was yours! .. that’s pretty crappy to say the least.
Here in Denmark that’s illegal. I run http://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.
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.”
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