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Everything he puts down on paper or electronically becomes copyrighted. You don't have to put a copyright notice on your site in order for it to be copyrighted .
If someone takes something from someone else's site then they are stealing!
How Do You Handle a "Copy Cat"?
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If someone takes something from someone else's site then they are stealing!
The best defense against this, which I have said many times is dont post your links to your website on these types of forums.
You have many "Lurkers" that never post, probably more than actual posting members. If you post of your success on your website, or that you get this many leads from your website, this is going to attract the "Vampires" like vultures to a dead carcass!!
They do not understand that it takes more than copying your content that is on your page to achieve what you have achieved.
Have you met many Smart people that Steal?
This will not hurt your Optimization of your original work, Trust me Google is so much smarter than that.
Best Advice, Dont post your Links to your sites and tell the World of Vampires your success.
Dont you remember, when I caught one of our own members that posts here on a regular basis stealing content and Meta Descriptions from Peelers Site?
You have many "Lurkers" that never post, probably more than actual posting members. If you post of your success on your website, or that you get this many leads from your website, this is going to attract the "Vampires" like vultures to a dead carcass!!
They do not understand that it takes more than copying your content that is on your page to achieve what you have achieved.
Have you met many Smart people that Steal?
This will not hurt your Optimization of your original work, Trust me Google is so much smarter than that.
Best Advice, Dont post your Links to your sites and tell the World of Vampires your success.
Dont you remember, when I caught one of our own members that posts here on a regular basis stealing content and Meta Descriptions from Peelers Site?
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Yes, I do remember that. I hope you are right about Google. It seems as if it should be very easy to see what date my content was published compared to his, which was months and even a year or longer later.
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Just checked the site. He's in Cartersville, GA. Take it from me - he's been punished enough already. 
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I agree with much of the above, with the big exception "Google is smart enough." Wow, where did that idea come from?
The highest rated blog for a very important key word was a blog that someone posted in 2004 and then abandoned. There have been no new posts since that time. AND, the single blog on that site was copied form someone else.
And yet Google still thinks it is a great blog site and has it ranked at 5, even after five years of inaction. I can see you being penalized for duplicate content as easily as I can see Google screwing up many other things they do.
I would put a copyright notice on each page. It is ridiculously easy and would take care of people who think everything is public domain without the notice.
With people who steal, the notice will not matter. In those cases, they think they will not be caught. I would call the guy up and call him on this. He will probably be embarrassed and take it down.
It is so, so easy to cut and paste work done by someone else that it happens all the time. It happens to me almost every day. Someone mentioned Library of Congress. They only accept written works of book quality. They do not accept brochures, pamphlets, or any type of Web content.
The highest rated blog for a very important key word was a blog that someone posted in 2004 and then abandoned. There have been no new posts since that time. AND, the single blog on that site was copied form someone else.
And yet Google still thinks it is a great blog site and has it ranked at 5, even after five years of inaction. I can see you being penalized for duplicate content as easily as I can see Google screwing up many other things they do.
I would put a copyright notice on each page. It is ridiculously easy and would take care of people who think everything is public domain without the notice.
With people who steal, the notice will not matter. In those cases, they think they will not be caught. I would call the guy up and call him on this. He will probably be embarrassed and take it down.
It is so, so easy to cut and paste work done by someone else that it happens all the time. It happens to me almost every day. Someone mentioned Library of Congress. They only accept written works of book quality. They do not accept brochures, pamphlets, or any type of Web content.
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I am just curious to see how you can find people that are copying your info. What search tools can I use to track them down? Obviously, this is something that has come up recently for me.
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And I just copied some text from Chumps site and it brought up the Georgie site. Wow.
And I just copied some text from Chumps site and it brought up the Georgie site. Wow.
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If it was my site, I'd start with a "friendly" phone call to the site owner, telling them that I'm flattered that he likes my content enough to use it on his site, but I worked hard on it and would really appreciate it if they removed it. I'd let him know that I'll check back in a couple days.
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That's very close to what I did. About an hour ago, I left a message asking him to call me. While I mentioned I am not pleased, I did offer to talk about it.
I suppose there is a chance that someone else wrote his content and he was unaware of this.
The other odd thing...I can't figure out if that Georgia site is a local agency, a GA or what...not that it makes much of a difference.
I suppose there is a chance that someone else wrote his content and he was unaware of this.
The other odd thing...I can't figure out if that Georgia site is a local agency, a GA or what...not that it makes much of a difference.
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