So I have a website with about 50 articles on it that were all originally written by myself. There are a few sites I see popping up that are literally copy pasting my articles onto their own pages with the same article names, same images which are actually still housed on my server, same inner-links that still link to my page rather than theres. Should I allow these sites to duplicate my content like this? I have a copyright notice on my page which does include sections that say no one can use my content unless my permission is granted upon them. Let me know if they will help me by linking back to my site and I should not bother with them. Or if I should immediately tell them to take down my content as it will hurt my page. Thanks!
You can tell them whatever you prefer... If you think it might be valuable to you to get a link, ask them... If they refuse you can always ask them to remove it..
if you had the work registered you can take legal action if not, ask them to take it down. If they don't, threaten to take legal action
Report It to Google. and secondly go to www.Who.is then find out the Domain owner, then ull get his Hosting server...contact his hosting company regarding yr problem...they'll force him to remove ur content...and if he dont..then his account will be terminated. This is what i hv done, wen i was facing same problem...n it works. Good luck.
if they are hotlinking your images.. you could replace those images with an insanely gross and obscene picture with the same file name. just a thought. Their traffic (assuming they have any) will love that.. lol
more often than not, you just have to move on and continue building your content. of course it helps to report to google or the webhost provider but you will also be wasting a lot of your time going thru the process when it can be diverted to more fruitful activities. besides, your complaint will have almost nil effect on their activities. these people can build thousands of sites automatically so the effect of putting down one site is nothing to them. they will just rebuild again in another webhost and copy again your work. as long as you build good contents and the SEs treat the originals as coming from your site, you are still good and you just don't worry about these scraper sites.
If they provide a credit and link back to your site, acknowledging it's your article, then that should be ok. However, final decision is still yours to make. Try to get in touch with them before you go straight to google.
If the content origianlly appeared on your site, Google should realise and you shouldn't be punished for duplicate content (in theory)
You can report this to google. However, make sure you Ping your sitemap to Google after you add content, in this way google will find the content first on your site. After google crawl the content, you then do not need to worry about other people copying your stuff.
I've been seeing this quite a bit on Blogspot. I personally feel uncomfortable posting entire articles even with providing a link. I'm still trying to learn the proper protocol, but I usually just paste a small part of the article, then provide a link to the original site where the reader has to go to read the entire article. It's good to know you can report to Google to have it resolved. Brian
You could call their attention and threaten to take legal action, but what are the chances they'd have those articles removed. It would be better to have your articles (with linkbacks to your site) posted with an article directory instead of your own site and let publishers re-publish those with their own site.
Thanks for all the great feedback guys. I have contacted the owner and he said he will be removing the content. When I ran a whois on the site admin he owns some amateur pr0n domain that hasnt been built yet haha. What scum