Someone has plagiarized my site's content

Welcome to the club!

Seriously, though, this is not uncommon.

The first thing you should do is simply contact the site owner and request that your content be removed immediately.

Give them 48 hours to comply. If they refuse, file a DMCA takedown notice.

If you have a Wordpress site there is a Wordpress plugin that prevents viewers from right clicking on your content and so stops them from stealing it.


Its called WP Content Copy Protection & No Right Click.


Once you have this installed no one can easily steal your content.


Hope this helps


Ged

I've got people stealing content from my blog all the time, but personally, I couldn't care less.

It's not like they're going to outrank your posts as duplicate content ranks poorly in Google anyway.

Send a DMCA notice to their hosting provider and also send the same with Google. It will help you to deal of scrapper and spammer. Don't promote your site on spam sites.

Bruch,

Consider this a badge of honor! I would contact the site owner and request that they remove the content.

Chris

Send their hosting company a message about it. They might make them take it down.

But, why does it matter? Are they taking clients away from you? (How do you know?)

I've got people stealing my stuff and it made no difference to me... Don't think it made a difference to them, either.

Just stealing your stuff is nothing. Stealing your stuff and outranking you, that's when it matters. Or when they get your clients some other way.

Gather all the necessary evidence to stop this idiot from stealing your work. Then do a DMCA takedown request, and send everything to their web host. And be a pest about it.

Ignore this response. Nothing in it is true. They can outrank you with your very own content.

Google doesn't care who published something first (they don't actually know who published something first anyhow). They care about which version has more authority.

I wouldn't waste time trying to contact them. You probably will never get a response. As someone said above, I would send a DMCA notice to them and their hosting provider.

All someone has to do is use the browser menu and save the page. From there, copy/paste is unaffected.

It may help a few basically honest people stay honest, but a deliberate thief will find a way.

Even if they steal your content and post it anywhere, Google will treat it as duplicate content.

I agree that you need to contact the site owner. Many of the sites hire article writers. They may not realize it was copied from your site, but they still should be checking!

This happens all the time.

Nothing new. You can waste your time chasing after these thieves or you can ignore them and move forward.

I think that is basically what PPG19 meant, but unfortunately when you use the phrase "domain authority" most people think of Moz's DA metric, which is utterly meaningless in this situation.

Really though, the authority of the domain is not all that important. What matters is the authority of the page.

If it's true Plagiarism ... Get in touch with a Lawyer and have their content removed.

Hi B,

LIG.

Let It Go.

As you became more well known, and famous, this is part of your online tuition. Mastering the art of surrender. Because it is literally impossible for you to prevent as your scale increases.

Take it from a guy with thousands of guest posts under his belt, as well as a decent presence in the blogging tips niche

When I let it go, I released the need to control, which then released the fear of loss, which helped me feel at peace, which made me even more creative and prolific, which helped me get over this scarcity-based, illusory fear of someone stealing anything from you, in a Universe of abundance.

Ryan

The best thing you can do is contact the Website owner or the post owner and ask them to remove the plagiarised content. If they don't take necessary action, you can report them immediately.

Nonetheless, it can happen again because there are many people who will copy your content and try to outrank you without any work of their own.

Here's a trick. You should sign up for a service like 33Across.com and add the to your site. It will automatically add a link to your website when someone copies content from your website so when they re-post it you get a backlink

This is one of the strategies I teach in my backlink training.

You can also send an official looking letter to their web host. One that actually is, or looks like it is, from a lawyer.

There is a notorious Russian site that has copied all of the content from HubPages, yet even as powerful as HubPages is (relatively speaking), they can't get the copied content taken down. Sometimes you just have to accept it as flattery, I guess.

You really cant stop people from stealing your content, the best thing you can do is age your blog so google can index your content into que.

You should also send HQ backlinks to your content page, and let google know whos boss. A cheap ass theif that can not afford their own content will most likely put no seo effort into their site, off page, on page, etc...

as your site ages, then google will start to realize who the real
deal is, and the only thing you can do is try to contact host, or
file a report with google, and hoping their site is deindexed, then
they will gain very little....

I could care less if the uneducated poor steal my content. I know in the end, I will be the winner because they cant afford to advance their site past stealing someone elses content, and maybe ordering cheap fiver links, and that is assuming they even go that far.

Just remember, you are in this for the long haul...
they are in it for the quick $1 then over time, then google
will catch up to their site, and burn them out of the index...

This is why I do not help anyone out...

age your domain, gain more trust, then
google will pick up your silly content first....

If you are afraid of people stealing your content,
then you probably should not be online...

welcome to the real world...

good luck...

Some of you guys have implied that you are smarter then
me, and that is fine, my sites say otherwise, so I am good...

I am only going to say this once. Google is not as smart as you
think they are, if they were, then why does google need 200+
factors in order to determine what is going on?

If google was smart, then why does google have you submit
a site that has copied your content?
(now think about that statement a bit more...)

When it comes to google, they are as stupid as any search
engine comes, because they do not take action until their
metrics tell them otherwise, and this is the reason you have
to report your stolen content, then google will look into it.

What if WF stole your content? If your article is optimized, then
WF would outrank you using your own content, so at this
point, you would report the matter to google so they can
investigate properly, if you dont, then google may think you
are the thief, and WF is in the right because they authority status.

Once you have notified google, then I imagine google would
analyze both sites using multiple factor methods, and this could
take days, weeks or even months, as rome was not built in a day...

At this point, once google determines the content was yours,
then google should deindex their page; At the end of the day,
this decision solely rests in the hands of google...

Over time, and has been proven, even authority sites can
lose their status if they do not follow google guidelines....

If content is stolen and published elsewhere, then be proactive...
you can ask these hosts until you are blue in the face, and lawsuit
litigation can run into the thousands, so if none of your empty
threats work, then your only recourse is to turn them over to
google, and hope google does the right thing....

Do not ever assume google is on your side...
If they were, then you would not have to report
sites for wrong-doing, right? Google does not know
any better until you properly inform them, and if
you dont, then google may just assume you are the copycat....
(This can go both ways...)

Partly because Google knows they don't have access to the things they don't have access to - like an email giving permission to use someone's content (unless that email passes through Gmail).

The only real way Google can tell the difference between duplicate content and stolen content is if it is reported.

See, you answered your own question. As for Google "being on your side", they never have been on anyone's side besides Google's. Even their Adsense business "being on the side of" advertisers over publishers is to protect their own interests.

Or, even worse, come from a site G considers a "bad neighborhood." Even though G. has said that they don't penalize inbound links from other sites, getting links based on presumably shared content (see above) from delisted or penalized sites can't be a positive thing.

You can file DMCA with Google. It will take 3 to7 days to remove all the copyrighted content from google directory.

if you do so, you're safe.

If you don't know how to fill out the DMCA file you can check this out

So easily removed as to be useless.

Someone copying entire websites will be smart enough to strip out some simple HTML.

Brent

Honestly, the first question you need to ask yourself is:
"Is it worth my time to go after them?"

People stealing content can easily become a game of "Whack a mole." I would suggest that you only go after them if it doesn't interfere with you putting out more quality content. Just remember that your time is a priceless asset.

Yep, early in December had my newest WSO Sales Page totally stolen and used word for word and my product pirated as well. And selling it for like $2.

First time I did the DMCA and within 3 days it was taking down by Hostgator. Unfortunately, last time I checked Warrior Plus decided not to ban the scumbag. Just a warning is what they gave him, I think

Especially since they are already stripping out any credit to the original. Given that plugins like that leave a very simple footprint, it's likely only a line or two of extra code.

The idea is not to notify your own hosting company. The idea is to serve the thief's hosting company with the DMCA. If they get a proper notice and choose to ignore it, they could be on the hook for possible penalties. CCing Google just helps mitigate the damage by getting the thief removed from the index.