Comments on: Reporting Content Thieves to Google

By: mag

mag — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:27:54 +0000

This is great information. I find my articles on the Internet all the time. At first I was excited that other people like my information enough to share. Once I learned that hosting articles without permission was wrong, I was no longer flattered. When I started to see my articles with my name removed and no link back to my site that really upset me. I am not a professional writer and I am just starting out. I wonder why people don’t try to write their own original content instead of stealing information from other people.

I will be signing up to receive your updates and I have shared your blog with several people already. Thanks!

By: UK

UK — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:01:55 +0000

I wrote a blog post recently that I wrote a basic summary on a creditable author’s article, but I made sure to say it wasn’t mine and I put a link to the original post. Did I violate a copyright?

By: lisa

lisa — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:54:07 +0000

Not a problem at all, Diane. Thanks for asking!

By: Diane

Diane — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:05:30 +0000

I hope you don’t mind if I put a backlink to this blog page in my Group on eHow.com. Many of us writers on eHow have been finding our articles stolen, all over the web. I started the group to try to combat this crime and this blog post is exactly the information we need. Thank you for the clear instructions and the great links to forms and other resources.

By: Wiehanne

Wiehanne — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:29:36 +0000

Thank you so much for the info! This is what I need. Apparently somebody has stolen the content (copy past exactly the same post title, same picture and same content) from my one-month-old-blog. That’s annoying. And the thief’s site is putting up Google Adsense too.

By: sandra

sandra — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:55:47 +0000

Thank you Lisa for taking time out to respond to my post. Inactivity and procrastination are not feelings I want to experience anymore…

By: lisa

lisa — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:50:52 +0000

Sandra, preventing theft 100% is pretty much impossible, especially when people see your site has some success. So rather than letting it deter you from starting, just know your options and understand the search engines are so savvy that most thieves realize that it’s no way to get traffic and they either get penalized or never get any traffic so they quit and give up. So I certainly wouldn’t let these thieves prevent you from starting. I believe in Karma and in my experience, most of my copycatters have gotten what’s comin’ to them in the end.

By: sandra

sandra — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:13:37 +0000

Funny…this has been one of my major reasons for not starting. I once had a blog and someone was stealing my content and ideas, thus, I got discouraged. I felt like why spend years building up a website only to have someone stealing your stuff and getting credit. But after reading what you did, perhaps I can now move on. It really bothers me that someone used your picture as well. Seems like their should be some way to control that also.

By: M

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:35:48 +0000

Im pretty surprised, I heard when google adsense boots you, they boot your butt for good. lol. I also HATE content theives. I have a ton of original content online, and nothing irks me more than dirtbags making money off of other peoples hard work!
Great advice here by the way.

By: MJ

MJ — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:45:21 +0000

Correction to my previous post: “ea, we know we’ve come a long way when someone takes the ‘time’ to copy us, but indeed do I take this as any form of flattery.”

I certainly meant to say “but indeed do I NOT take this as any form of flattery”.

The laziness and scummy-ness on parts of these types of people just really make me scratch and shake my head!