A question i had, A client of mine has a website in a popular niche, his website doest rank that high but he does write content for it weekly. This he is been doing for a long time, recently i noticed (after copyscape checks) that someone has been copying his articles totally for their website. now the weird part is, that website is ranked higher and is crawled more frequently by search engines. I am not sure but i think that website has a auto script to take articles from my clients website. So what happens is this, my client posts an original article, the other person copies it onto his website. and since google visits more frequently, his pages get crawled first, and then my client gets penalised for posting duplicate content. His PR went from 4 to 1 even tough he writes good articles on a weekly basis. I have tried increasing the crawl rate in google, but it still doest help. Is there anything i can do to help him?
First tell your client to take a break from the article writing and do some link building. With a little link building/seo you should have no problem rating higher than spam blogs. If you want the blogs to stop using your content send them a DMCA notice. This will solve that problem for the individual blog but there are so many spam blogs out there you content is bound to be copied again. The long term solution is making sure you don't rate terribly with google.
No you dont understand, that is not a auto/spam blog. Its a good website, where the owner also writes a lot of articles (or atleast steals them from many sources ) That website has 1000's of backlinks and a good pr. and his update frequency is about 3 articles per week.. I doubt my client can compete with that. Also there is no proof that my client's article is his. As far as the internet (or google) is concerned, that article was copied from that guys site onto my client's website.
Okay then the solution is to send them a DMCA notice to remove the infringing content. Your client should have some sort of proof that the content was made first (microsoft word timestamps, wordpress timestamps, etc.). Sending them a DMCA is virtually guaranteed to get them to remove the content.
But honestly, tell me one of those proofs that cannot be faked, i can change my wordpress timestamps from the database, or microsoft words timings. One can also take a printscreen of the article with the computer clock turned back. No one will buy that kinda proof. I dont want to advise my client something, unless it is sure to work. Thanks for your assistance so far appreciate it.
Whether or not it can be faked, that is the kind of proof that hosts might require when they receive a DMCA takedown notice, but they usually don't require even that. In a takedown notice you have to attest under the penalty of perjury that the information that you're submitting is true and correct. It works. Feel free to advise your client to file one. Deena ___________________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions are offered without knowledge of the specific law of your jurisdiction and with only the limited information provided in your post. No advice given here should be reasonably relied upon by you or any third party without consulting an attorney who is aware of all of the facts and law surrounding your situation. Any advice given here is not intended to create an attorney-client relationship in any way.
You can first try and talk to the other site representative. If you don't get a satifsfactory answer, then send a DMCA noice to their hosting provider. You can try adding little texts or links that related to your website in the article. So if they copy it, it will appear on there website.