Another website publishing my content but with link

Hi Gerald, just don't worry about that. There are lots of websites that do such work to stay alive on the internet. Others are not as skilled as you to create their own content.

Google has a few ways to determine the original source, such as the page cache date.

That other site will have less value as it's content is not original, so the link passes small value to you. To deal with it, you should interlink your posts, so when they copy the links stay there (most people are lazy to take the links out)

Another free service is tynt.com they put a link to your site when they copy any of your text.

Hey Gerald , That wasn't a Cheezy thing because it almost like Article Syndication but here you also get some powerful backlinks from the guy website.
So , you're really no need to worry about this problem though you might be a Good content Creator obviously your content has begun to spread to the Syndication Networks.

I personally wouldn't want him to copy without permission all of my unique content and would get it taken down.

If that's what you decide to do, it's easy. Issue a DMCA to his host. Instructions and sample DMCA here:

http://domainingdiva.com/legal-issue...ipoff-artists/

Have the articles been copied from your site, or did you submit them to an article directory? If they were on an article directory, then republishing them with your link intact is a legitimate use as that is what article directories are for.

If you didn't submit them to article directories and ONLY published them on your own site then I'm with Suzanne - issue a DMCA notice. I have zero tolerance for lazy thieves who can't be arsed to do their own work!

Gerald - this doesn't sound like your average thief. It sounds like someone who does not understand copyright law and is trying to be above board but is missing the facts.

I would contact that person and let them know that it is copyright infringement. Be nice to them about it because it really and truly seems they have made a mistake and are not just evil since they linked you. If you are getting traffic from the links, you may want to extend permission for them to use some of the material and ask them to take other material down - you don't want 100% on someone else's site, but a few links don't hurt - that is why we post to article directories after all.

I think this is a good way to go for two reasons - your own interests.........and to let the poor boob that did this know they could get in mega hot water for it if they use a source that isn't as nice about it as you were.

Assuming these were not articles you added to an article directory for publication by others, the website owner has not done a "decent thing." Rather, he stole your content and used it without your permission.

How you proceed is up to you. If you think this website owner was under the mistaken impression that he can use any content he wants so long as he includes a link back to the source, you could send him a friendly eMail informing him this is not the case and asking him to remove your content.

If he fails to respond or if you think he should have known better, then you can hit him with a DMCA notice. If he has AdSense on his site, you could also send Google a DMCA notice as well, and get him de-indexed or maybe banned from AdSense.

https://www.google.com/adsense/suppo...complaint&rd=1

It's up to you.

If they're site is not that established then you're probably not getting any valuable link juice so you have nothing to lose by standing by your rights.

The other thing to consider is - are you syndicating your content. If you're submitting it to other sites or via rss then it's possible that the person thought you wanted your content to be republished (lots of authors do) and thought they were helping you.

I'd say be nice and contact them and see who they are and what they're up to. They may end up being a good partner as they're obviously trying to reach the people in your niche if they're republishing your content.

Andy

If it was me, I would find a way to make this a positive.

I would contact the website owner and let him know I was happy he liked my articles but I didnt want to see ALL my content on his site. Let him know it is a lot of work on my end but I would be happy to share, SOME with him since he was nice enough to credit me with backlinks. Then make some kind of deal about what can use and what he cant. It would be a nice plus if he could feed more viewers to you for the additional content you had but did not share with him.

If he wont deal, time for the smackdown, submit the DMCA as mentioned above.

Yeah I get trackbacks like that daily with sites scraping my content. If you have that might content your authority is much higher than the infringing site anyways and Google will recognize this.

Full content extraction turns out to be impolite. There was a time in the beginning when copywrite was not so sacred on the internet. But it's grown to be that way (And I agree it should now that money is involved!). I remember being 15 (11 years ago) and the best sites on the net were re-packagings of other smaller sites. Those were the days.

@Net,
I think it's harmless in today's internet. It's probably even helpful, but barely. It depends on the traffic that site is getting and if it is picking up exposure that your site did not pick up originally,naturally. This can help inform people about your location. The link back might help increase authority of your post, which may help your site's authority overall; but probably not too much.

I personally resyndicate all my content verbatum (with linkbacks) to other locations to increase the appearance of authority. These places hardly every get attention, but if they do I'll benefit. But I do not fear that the re-syndication of my content to other places sets my orignal location at risk of some kind of depreciation.

Excerpting with link back seems to be the most polite way of going about re-syndicating, and really the only widely acceptable way... look at Google+ and Facebook. It also makes a good autuomation model for gaining readership from people who like your content source selection. But I wouldn't expect to compete for organic traffic using any re-syndication model. Left-over, second-page traffic maybe.

Even then a superior model to the headlines model is the headlines +editorial commentary with linkback model. That's always been very strong. That's also what Google+ is turning into now.

I wouldnt worry about It. youre articles came first, the big G knows that!!

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions ... some really great advice there, I really appreciate it

BTW: these 80+ articles are all unique and have never been syndicated or submitted to article directories.

Cheers ....
Gerald

Hi Gerald,

You can find some good advice from copyscape too
Copyscape - Responding to Online Plagiarism

Stanley

100% of your content copied to another site is never going to help you(irrespective of what other experts may say). In fact, that other site will gain value faster as he has 100% content from many other sites like yours and would be considered to have more content depth and diversity in the subject matter.

Sometime back I used to submit articles in my site first(let it get indexed) and then after sometime publish the same article in article directories. In google search the link from several of the article directories appeared before the link from my site for most of the keywords.

Regards
Deb

If it was only 1 article, I could almost see overlooking it and accept the backlink. However, 80+ articles? No way. That's just downright theft. Give him 72 hours to remedy the situation before issuing a DMCA notice.

as long as he isnt making money, then enjoy the backlinks. is he running adsense or anything else though?