Thief Stole My Content. But Search Engines Indexed His Site, Not Mine!

I'd send an email to him at the most and get back to making money to be honest. I gave up trying to police an infinite number of probs on the net long ago. As soon as I'd squash one, another would pop up to replace it.

Wow.. I guess you could... beat him with a stick or something maybe.

What he did is low, but I guess nothing really surprises me anymore.

-Vish.

Send him an email. Threaten to sue him (even though you are probably not going to). Blast it out in the comments section. Use social media to let everybody know. Bash him as hard as you can. Don't be nice.

Legally it's called a 'cease and desist' letter.
Cease and desist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I believe the autoweblawpro an Intellectual property protection plan product comes with sample letters.
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Ralf

Hi Michael,

This has happened to me in the past.

I just ignore it and get on with other stuff.

People who try and run a successful business by riding on other peoples work almost always fall over pretty quickly as they're adding no value and they can't perform without you doing a good job in the first place. Ultimately they can't follow up on your good work and they'll come unstuck -but the more time you spend on thinking about them - the worse their affect on your business is.

Just do what you can to prevent it happening again and move on.

I've seen people have this situation many times and usually they're thinking these other people are making a ton of money off their work, but it's usually not true, it's just an easy way to offload responsibility for their own lack of results so not only does it detract from your business but it can serve people with negative mindsets even worse by giving them ammunition to feed their negative list of reasons why they're not as successful as they 'should' be.

I'm not saying this is you, just that I've seen it.

Andy

I feel your pain Mike. You could always send him an email updating him on the fact that your content is protected private intellectual property and that you will contact his hosting company unless you see he has credited you as the author with the link you decree he use.

That should light the proverbial fire under his rear and if not,

looks like a phone call to the host is in order.

I'm not saying to get all worked up over it but just that the email and phone call
are proactive steps that can be done quickly to get the needed results.

About three months ago, someone scraped my blog content and beat me in the SERP's for that particular post. Now, three months later, MY blog post is there, but that scraped content is nowhere near where I am.

It may be that, over time, the actual date and time content appears is figured into the SERP's...