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Somebody Spun My Article! Grrr!

by dvduval
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Spun Text:
PhpLD version 4.1 was released September 2010. Top free daily travel report freeware full version downloads. of the show as a more slapstick, kid-friendly version of. design team members began working on the updated version=THE LEGEND
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So then I click on that google search result and it takes me to the Ebay homepage. I assume this is some kind of affiliate link. It just ticks me off that people are taking my content. Would it bother you?
#article #grrr #spun
  • Profile picture of the author waken
    Of course it does, but I have learnt how to better forget it than to waste time going after all these people..
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  • Profile picture of the author Trivum
    If you let something like this bother you, then you have a lot of being bothered in your future.

    Focus forward. Let all the little crap fall where it may.
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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    I publish most of my content on my website, so they obviously spidered it or something. It was just a "Grrr", but not a "GRRRRRRRRRRRR" It is the first time I am aware of seeing this though. Hopefully, it wouldn't lead to google associating other keywords that were unrelated with our site.
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  • Profile picture of the author JamesW
    There are so many things going on that lots of webmasters are completely oblivious to.

    I've seen people copy my blog posts but change a few sentences here and there, spin them using a tool giving a new version that doesn't make sense in some places and worst of all just copy them word for word claiming it is their own work.

    I've also seen people posting my articles on their sites and removing the resource box.
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  • Profile picture of the author hometutor
    You could consider it a compliment and send a message to the person thanking him/her but let you know next time ; ) That way they know you know

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  • Profile picture of the author Cataclysm1987
    Not really.

    Every time you spin something, you either dilute the message or slightly offset it.

    There's nothing that valuable about spun content except for SEO purposes.

    If someone wants to make a knockoff version of my article, go right ahead. I'm not worried. It will only make them look foolish.
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  • Profile picture of the author IndigoJack
    I don't think about people copying my stuff because I can't stop it happening and am unlikely to ever find out.

    However if I did perchance come across a copy of my stuff I would be absolutely incandescent.

    But it's nigh on impossible to stop copying/pilfering/scraping whatever.
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  • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
    The other day I was Googlin' the titles of a few articles I'd written over the last year, to get an idea of where they'd been published, who by, etc, since not all of them show up in Google Webmaster Tools or Yahoo Site Explorer as backlinks.

    Imagine my excitement when I found out a large, well-known outdoors-type store in the UK had republished my article. That must've resulted in a good backlink or some good referral-traffic, I thought ...

    ... how wrong I was. They'd kept the title and rewritten the body of my article by hand. You could still easily see it was based on mine. The structure was the same, the points were all the same. It was just reworded... more or less sentence-by-sentence.

    I was given no credit or acknowledgement for this at all.

    It made me angry for a short while. Then I got over it.
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  • Profile picture of the author MichaelParsons
    The first time this happened to me, I posted a venomous reply about the pathetic garbage this clown spun my article into. Might have said something about hunting him down...

    Now it only bothers me.

    GRRRR, indeed!
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  • Profile picture of the author IndigoJack
    J.R.R.Tolkein among others are still turning in their graves over the Harry Potter franchise.

    Choosing my words carefully, it's very hard to prove and have the work removed from publication.
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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    Are there any cases of successful DMCA notices against spun articles?
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  • Profile picture of the author DonDavis
    Of course it irritates me (and everybody else probably). But it's a part of doing business. Don't waste your time chasing them. It's kind of like that carnival game where the gofers pop up and you bonk them on the head... As soon as you smash one of them, another pops up!
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    • Profile picture of the author batchos
      Many people take your articles directly from Go Articles and publish everything part except the resource box.
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