Is Imitation The Best Form of Flattery?

Last Update: January 27, 2011

I have been dancing around internet marketing for a couple of years now but finally after moving house and Job I have organised my life in way that I can get going on it.

 I have at last  been able to diligently follow the article marketing course up to day nine and counting!! Wow action is the way to learn for sure!

However, upon searching for one of my aticles I found a site which had stolen the whole thing. The most annoying part being that the site is ranking better than me! I thought origonal content wins????

Perhaps I could think that I have written an article good enough that someone would want to steal it? Ok flattery that would be. But on the other hand maybe some sneaky software can just pick up articles with the selected keywords and pop them on your site if you so wish? No flattery there. Just plain automated cyber theft! 

The consolation prize is that my article had been stuck on the page in such an automated fashion that the paragraphs were all wrong. It didnt fit correctly in many places and incomplete words at the end of lines were frequent. So the site just looks silly.

Come on if you are going to steal my amazing work flattter me nicely by at least displaying it correctly and make it shine! It seems that machine imitation is not flattering at all. Just demeaning ;-)

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Robg1 Premium
ok i will start with the e-mail method! thanks.
Robg1 Premium
ok i will start with the e-mail method! thanks.
jatdebeaune Premium
Hmmmm, does Google really act on it? Do you have an address for that? Would help Rob and me and everybody else who doesn't know the address. Happens to me a lot too.
onefineham Premium
I don't agree with contacting the culprit, when someone takes my content without following the publisher guidelines (a.k.a full article including links and backlink to original) I simply contact google and have the site blackballed. It's happened to me so many times I can't even count.
jatdebeaune Premium
Hi Rob, email the culprit. Most of the time,they will fix it or take it out. If that doesn't work, then you have more aggressive means at your disposal, but most of the time, just contacting them works.
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