What Should You Do If Your Article Was Stolen?

Last Update: May 13, 2011

Lots of us have had or will have one day or another some of our content stolen, and that really suck when it happens.  

Recently there was a WA Forum thread about yet another internet marketer who has seen is content taken advantage of.  If you want to read the thread here it is:  https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/wa_forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=89018

I have had some of my content stolen before and I know it's not fun and one feels very frustrated as it seems that those mega sites where our article was stolen from don't even care.

However, DO ALWAYS take action, regardless of the results you may get from them. In many cases they will take action and remove the stolen content from their sites in the case of directories or from ranking in case of Google or other search engines.

I wanted to thank Jatdebeaune AKA Joan who provided the address to contact Google and I took the liberty to use this on my blog post that you can read here:

http://affiliatesuccessmethods.com/was-your-article-stolen-and-what-should-you-do-if-it-was/

One thing is sure, if we don't take action when we have an article stolen, it will only encourage thieves to do it even more.


 

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Ezinewriter Premium
Great reply, Joan. Sometimes you can also find your stolen content by pure accident like it happened to me before.
Incognito Premium
Thanks for the info Joan. Will definitely keep my eye on this ;)
jatdebeaune Premium
Leo, just put the title of your article in search box and see what turns up. Also, try the first sentence of the article. They seem to like a good headline, and often grab just that. Sometimes they grab the first paragraph. Different styles pf poaching. The worst is if they spin your article badly, then use your name.
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Curious to find out how you go about checking that your content has been stolen? Do you setup Google alerts? Do you put a paragraph of your article into Google and see what comes up? Would be very interested to hear how you do it as I'm sure it would help me an others within the WA family :)
jatdebeaune Premium
This is great Sylviane. If you make a doormat out of yourself, then you can't complain if people walk on you.
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