Hello, just a quick one, have a few articles in e zine and whilst i was checking for their positions in google i came across another website ranking high in my niche. When i took a closer look, this twirp has all of my articles on his front page and no author signature of mine with it. Is there no way to protect ourselves from this, or should i just see e zine as banklinks and purely nothing else. Thanks for any help James
Just to clarify. Are you saying that this person has stolen your content and placed it on his/her website without respinning it first?
Yes, it's identical to what i've written, i don't understand, so that means that people can just take from e zine willy nilly.
OK, that sounds pretty bad. To get more detailed advice on this matter, go the Copyscape (do a Google search), then click the link for 'Plagiarism'. There is a list of step by step procedures to get the offending plagiarised content removed. Also, while you are there, download a Copyscape html banner and place it with your work, if possible. Hope this helps....Brett
Even though you have had your on IP ripped off, at least bask in the comfort that they value your work, then go after the scum bags.
2 options. 1. is to send a DMCA to the hosting company. This usually will get your content off the site. 2. Create tons more content and don't worry about who is taking your stuff.
Since you cannot really prevent the content from being stolen, you can at least try to benefit from it: in each of your content text (article, post, news, whatever) insert a link or mentioning of your website url. By this, you will get additional free-of-charge mentions of your urls if your content will be stolen and posted somewhere else ;-)
was not sure whether or not i could place links in body at ezine. I thought that was what author box was for. how should e zine work in the ideal world for a webmaster.
James-Covert, first check the terms of the e-zine. Did you give them the rights to redistribute the article somewhere in the fine print? A lot of the e-zine sites (e.g. articlesbase.com, ezinearticles.com) are meant for that kind of redistribution. Unless you gave it away like that, then you have copyright to the work if it's your work. Under current U.S. law, it's not necessary to assert copyright of textual works in order to claim or protect copyright. What D00MR4ZR is talking about might apply to film -- I dunno, but I know some film guys who are always worried about registering their work -- but even there I think it's just a matter of making it *easier* to prove copyright so it's not just your word. The quickest way is file a DMCA request with their web host. Make sure the request is filled out perfectly, or the host is under no obligation to do anything. You could also just get contact@ or whois email for the site owners and ask them to take it down - this is usually fast and easy, too, unless you encounter a jerk who likes disputes. James-Covert, you need to have written the work yourself, or have an agreement with the author that they are assigning all rights to you. Otherwise you technically do not own the copyright.
1. Gather proof that the content is actually yours. 2. Write the owner of the site with the copyright infringement and send a cease and desist letter. 3. Write the host of the copyright infringer. 4. If contacting the offender or their hosting company doesn't work (sometimes they host their own site) then check their site and write all their advertisers, sponsors, membership organizations, ISP (Internet Service Providers), Google Spam Report, Google AdSense as well as any other PayPerClick Services, Yahoo Directory, DMOZ directory, including those who have linked to their website. Inform them this person has stolen your copyrighted content. However, beware, if you do this under false pretences it could result in your own site being removed. So get your facts straight first. 5. If all of the above fails then you have one more recourse of action before taking them to court - to file a DMCA report with Google (Digital Millennium Copyright Act).
James, this happens ALL the time. Unfortunately scumbags like these will never cease to exist. You have two options, 1- you can try to contact the person of the site and ask them to take the content down or else you will sue for copyright infringement. This is rather difficult to accomplish. Although MOST plagiarizers will remove the content for fear of a lawsuit, a lot of them simply do NOT care because they know that it is rather difficult to prove copy theft online. Particularly because the internet is VAST, too many different countries with different copyright laws and so on. 2- You can tough it up, move on and continue writing quality content articles. Copyrighting ANYTHING is very expensive and a rather tedious process, especially with online material. DMCA is a very good solution. But unless James has plenty of proof that the content is actually his, it will be an uphill battle. Copycats will ALWAYS exist... But NO he can NOT place his URL in the content, Ezine does NOT even allow for the company name without the dot com to be placed within the article body!!! SO that IS NOT a sensible solution. YOU THOUGHT RIGHT... YOU CAN NOT!!! You can get slapped in the hands for it and your article will simply not even get accepted. GREAT recommendations... possibly the most comprehensive step by step... however, I do have to say it will not be easy. I have gone through it and sometimes it is more time wasted than what is actually accomplished. TIME = MONEY, so keep that in mind.
You mention "e zine", so if it is the site with these Terms of Service then people are allowed to copy some content if the whole thing is used, with links and author and link to original. So if your article is under those terms, the only thing wrong may be that it's a partial copy. Oddly, if you try to cut and paste an article from that site, you can end up without the author section even if you selected it during your copy. That's the fault of the ezinearticles site - they require the whole thing be copied so they should make their article not do unexpected things.
i will approach the webmaster under the belief that they may have missed the link from e zine copy. Can i ask you all a q, my site is new and one of my strengths is writing. I plan to have 100, unique articles within e zine for my experiment, can someone explain to me the benefits of this and how this all works, i heard it can backlink boost on a major white hat level. Cheers team
Yes, backlinks tend to increase search engine ranking. Original content has more value than duplicated content, so posting material which is not reused is of greater value than reused material. The highest value would be an article (with a link) which only appears on an authoritative site (such as only on the web site of the Chicago Tribune) -- but if others republish the article then the value of individual links may weaken. Articles which are reused decrease in individual value. However, weak links are better than no links. And whether a bunch of links is good or not depends upon the whims of the search engine operators, but with no links you won't be noticed much.