Article "Stolen" by Some Blogger

I wrote a Goarticles article a few days ago. Some blogger copied it WORD for WORD, took out my links and put his own in - against Goartilces rules.

Now his blog article is indexed and my goarticle article will not get indexed cos of duplicate content.

I've reported him to eblogger but am not sure if they'll do anything - even though the date on my article is the 8th and the date on his blog was the 9th so there's a clear trail as to who copied what.

Is there anything else I can do or any way of avoiding this for the future?

 

Unfortunately, I don' t see much you can do. Can't google search generally determine the original source?

 

There are lots of plugins that pull article from Article Directories. So they pull it & republish without links. Nothing we can do. But they will not get much benefit from it because of duplicate content.

 

@ jj1, it is very sad , that the blogger one copied your article.

you can only do one thing, is just blame the blogger, say him, that he will get punished

tell that you will inform the google will all proofs, then he will get alright.

he will surely remove it or keep your link.

 

I have had that happen and have been able to contact some of the posters and have them removed article from their site. Depends on if it is a ligitimite site or some link farm.

 

Welcome to the internet. There are all sorts of programs and plugins that scrape articles from article directories, or sometimes bloggers steal the content manually. Unfortunately trying to pursue the matter is more trouble than it is worth in the long run.

 

Unfortunately, his blog is indexed and my Goarticle is not - Google obviously got to his blog before my article and now I won't get indexed because of him and I'm the one getting penalised for duplicate content not him!!

If my article had been indexed first, I wouldn't be so narked but he's stopped me getting any links from an original article.

 

Duplicate articles has nothing to do with indexing.

Google indexes duplicate content all the time.

Writing articles and submitting them, IMHO, is going the way
of the dinosaur. I would publish them on your site, blog, squidoo, etc.
and let the chips fall where they may.

We have all had articles stolen. Either outright or spun. To me, nothing
different then you (meaning us) of spinning someone's article, changing
a few words, etc.

I don't worry about stolen content. I would not lose sleep over it.
It won't be the last time you get something stolen.


Stephen C

 

you are quite right about this

 

Try pointing some good links at the article, perhaps even link to it from the page it is linking to on your site. In future, once you have an article published, social bookmark it and try to point a couple of links at it like blog comments or something like that.

 

Many thanks simpseo

I did ping it immediately but that obviously didn't work!!

 

I think the google search knows where your article first comes from,you said that your blog are not indexed well so I suggest you submiit the article on your blog and some free article websites at the same time

 

I dont know why you are so worried, its on goarticles not on your own site or blog.

Post it on your blog....

 

Write another article There's nothing you can really do, and there's no benefit to driving yourself crazy. This stuff happens and it sucks.

 

That's why never submit your best to article directories. I see a few requests for some of my articles in goarticles, I have no doubt that the same thing is happening to me as well.

 

This entire event sounds like great material for a new article. You could even try to contact the guy/girl for an interview about how and why he/she did it.

 

Eureka - have just had an email from blogger.com to say they've taken down the blog article and notified the blog owner. They've also said if he puts it back up they will take further action!

There is justice on the net!

 

it all ends happily afterall

 

happens to me all the time. there's nothing you can reall do.

 

congrats then justice has been done