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Bad news, I write great articles.

by Justin Lavoie
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Yea , I just found out some competitors are stealing content on one of my reviews website. They just copy/paste my articles on their web site; that's so frustrating! Will google make my articles worth junk now? Could I lose rankings?

My articles are written on the fly, like speaking to a friend so I know they are colorful and fun to read, not some robotic reviews. These are personal experiences and it just feel akward to read it on someone else's website lol..

So what should I do? Ive searched a bit and from what I have read, filling a complaint to google and his hosting company would be the first step?

So far I have sent an email asking for him to remove my articles. I told him about possible actions if he did not comply.

I understand there will always be someone to steal my stuff and I will never win this fight for ever and beyond, however if you steal my stuff , PLEASE at the very LEAST spin it.. :rolleyes:
#articles #bad #great #news #write
  • Profile picture of the author Cru
    As long as your content indexed before his did, you're in the clear
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  • Profile picture of the author NicoleBeckett
    Are the links intact? Are you still listed as the author? Has the article been changed in any way? If the answers are "yes", "yes", and "no", then you don't have a problem - you actually have a very good situation! In this case, your articles are getting syndicated (or "republished"), which is the goal of every successful article marketer out there.

    Syndication definitely won't hurt your site. You'll wind up getting more traffic from it, and you'll wind up with a whole bunch of links that you never would have gotten otherwise (most of which are of a much higher-quality than the PR0 lnks you're getting on the article directories).

    On the other hand, if people are simply taking your articles, removing the links, making themselves the author, or changing the article in any way, then you're dealing with people who are violating the terms of service of virtually every article directory out there, and they're violating your copyright. Send them an email say that they either need to publish your article in its entirety (unchanged, with all appropriate links), or remove it from their site. If that doesn't work, you're well within your rights to file a DMCA complaint.

    And, trust me, you don't want your articles shoved through a spinner for any reason. I've found plenty of mine spun to holy heck - complete with my name listed as the author and my links still intact! Talk about looking bad! And even if people pull your name and links off the article and spin it, they're still stealing what's rightfully (and legally) yours.
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    • Profile picture of the author Cru
      Originally Posted by NicoleBeckett View Post

      Are the links intact? Are you still listed as the author? Has the article been changed in any way? If the answers are "yes", "yes", and "no", then you don't have a problem - you actually have a very good situation! In this case, your articles are getting syndicated (or "republished"), which is the goal of every successful article marketer out there.

      Syndication definitely won't hurt your site. You'll wind up getting more traffic from it, and you'll wind up with a whole bunch of links that you never would have gotten otherwise (most of which are of a much higher-quality than the PR0 lnks you're getting on the article directories).

      On the other hand, if people are simply taking your articles, removing the links, making themselves the author, or changing the article in any way, then you're dealing with people who are violating the terms of service of virtually every article directory out there, and they're violating your copyright. Send them an email say that they either need to publish your article in its entirety (unchanged, with all appropriate links), or remove it from their site. If that doesn't work, you're well within your rights to file a DMCA complaint.

      And, trust me, you don't want your articles shoved through a spinner for any reason. I've found plenty of mine spun to holy heck - complete with my name listed as the author and my links still intact! Talk about looking bad! And even if people pull your name and links off the article and spin it, they're still stealing what's rightfully (and legally) yours.
      That is great information if in fact he was utilizing an article directory. These are reviews from his review site. I can understand where he is coming from as reviewing products takes a lot of time and energy (not just the writing but spending actual time with the product). The most likely scenario from what has been described is that a competitive review site has just decided to copy his review word for word as their own.

      Start out with filing a DMCA and go from there. Once the site has been taken out of the search reults due to a DMCA I am sure the offending webmaster will be happy to comply
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  • Profile picture of the author Samrath Gupta
    You can send him a DMCA notice and possibly threat them that if they will not remove your content you will have to take LEGAL STEPS !!

    I think this should work

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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by Samrath Gupta View Post

      You can send him a DMCA notice and possibly threat them that if they will not remove your content you will have to take LEGAL STEPS !!
      A DMCA notice is the "legal steps", Samrath.

      It will resolve the problem about 99% of the time.

      You just need to have one ready in a "fill-in-the-blanks" format, so that you don't spend your whole working life worrying about these things. Send the DMCA notice to the hosting company, with copies to the offender, the domain registrar and Google, if you want. And then forget about it and get back to building your business.

      (I agree with Nicole's comment above, on the SEO perspective, of course: it's very unlikely that this will do you any harm anyway. But it's very quickly resolved simply by sending the host a DMCA, anyway. There's no real problem, here).
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  • Profile picture of the author Justin Lavoie
    Thanks a lot, quality info!

    Yes, my main concern is the fact that those are reviews and not an article with links to my site. I had 2 internal links but they are not working from his website. He did put a link to my website at the end of the article however I dont see why people would click on it now that they have read the article and they are already on a reviews site, why jump on another?
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  • Profile picture of the author NicoleBeckett
    Good point, Cru... Although, now I'm a little confused by the OP, since he specifically mentions "articles" :confused: (and, as a brief aside, you don't get syndicated just through the article directories... you can do it right off your own website, if you want to )

    In any event, if someone is ripping off his reviews and claiming them as their own, it's frustrating as heck (and illegal as heck to boot!) - but I highly doubt he's going to suffer any kind of SEO penalty because of it. My guess is that the content is getting indexed on his site before it gets stolen (hopefully... if not, OP, ping everything in order to get it indexed faster, so that you'll be credited as the original source)
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    If you want it removed send a DMCA notice. Will be gone within 48 hrs. Instructions and sample DMCA here

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    • Profile picture of the author jimmel196
      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      If you want it removed send a DMCA notice. Will be gone within 48 hrs. Instructions and sample DMCA here

      What You Can Do About "Paypal Dispute Ripoff Artists" | Domaining Diva
      I used the DMCA template that you provide on your site, with a few adjustments to fit my situation and it worked great. I have found if the website's hosting company is in the United States or some other English speaking country then it will almost always be removed. If the hosting company is in many other foreign countries, you will have to file the DMCA complaint with Google, Bing, etc. to get the content removed. I only have 10 articles on EZA and found it to be a full time job to just file the DMCA notices against all of the copyright infringers. I finally gave up and quick filing them. I just make sure my articles have been indexed on my site first and do the best I can from there. Jimmy
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  • Profile picture of the author Justin Lavoie
    Many thanks for the help guys. I guess I'll just wait a bit and if nothing has changed next monday I will just fill a DMCA.
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  • Profile picture of the author bhola badshah
    Find out the host of that website, that's to see the name server he is using, go to contact us page of web host and send an email to abuse at hostemail and tell them you ll follow them legally or DMCA would be the next step.

    You ll get:

    Suspended website
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    No more articles there.
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