What Do You Do When Other Websites Steal Your Content?

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

Or is it legal?

Checkout this website:

http://virgotex.net/health-insuranc...ivate-vs-group-health-insurance-optionss.html

Change optionss to options. I did not want to give them a link.

They published it April 26 2012 and have also published just about all of blog articles.

The original article (that I wrote) I published on April 15th here:

Pennsylvania Private Vs. Group Health Insurance

They rank higher (bastards!) and have obviously stolen other content. I can file each article (1 by 1) with Google's Copyright removal and they take care of it. But it takes a while and I would like that site shut down. Am I out of line or can they actually do that?

 

[lrixford]

It is your content. You are not out of line. The first step is not Google. Go directly to the thief and request removal AND a 301 redirect for the URL. Use a lawyer if you can. Threaten further action.If this is unsuccessful in getting them to remove it, then go to Google and do them one by one...and pursue legal action.

 

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

I have emailed numerous times. I assume they are overseas. They never respond and legal action will not stop them. Just a guess. The tedious one article at a time, I suppose is the best recourse.

 

[Underwriter2Agent]

This may our may not help you now however one way of keeping track of content and how it's copied on the Web is copyscape.com it's a free tool and they will verify if you have been plagiarized.

Also if you pay a fee they will notify you if it does happen.

 

[lrixford]

Google and Bing is your only resource. It is unfortunate that this regularly happens when you write quality content. Good luck.

 

[Josh]

Have you tried installing plugins to block them from being able to copy and paste it? I have some I use on freetelemarketingscripts.com and although I wouldn't have much of a way of knowing, I don't believe anything has been copied.

 

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

I have not. But I will look into it. It appears that site has no original content.

 

[Josh]

I have not. But I will look into it. It appears that site has no original content.

WP-CopyProtect [Protect your blog posts]


Works like a charm. Now they'll go take content from someone else. They can still do it, but it's a lot more difficult and it isn't automated.

 

[YouGotMyMoney]

you will prob find that the site that ripped ur content has a high pagerank than yours, that is usually whats the explanation is

 

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

Yes, it does. 4-3. I'll have to submit each page to Google. Was advised by Hosting Co. they will not do anything. I did notice that for a few of the pages, Google did delete them after I submitted a request and then they created new pages with the same content. Clever.