I recently wrote my first article to see if I could benefit from it SEO wise. But when I now search for the article title, the #1 result has just copied it without stating the source. Not even my name. mad: skunkcustard.net ) The other results are all people who copied it with links to my blog in it and with my name so that's ok. Problem is that I also posted the article on my own blog, and that one isn't popping up in the results! So basically my question is: If you write a free article, and you post it on your own site as well, how do you avoid YOUR publication of the article will be seen as duplicate content? and besides that, how do you fight copying without source mentioning
1. I would say ask the skunk to take it down immediately. 2. By the sear number of backlinks pointing back to your site, most search engines should realise this is the orignal source and they also probably crawled it first.
Send them a cease and decist warning. Request that they either remove the article or link back to it's source. If they don't comply then contact their webhost and let them know they're using copyrighted material.
yeah i tried to comment to the posting, but It has been either deleted or not approved. Just send them an email and else I will go further
Just send them a nice letter asking for the resource box to be put on...maybe they just forget to include it.
I would say either post your article on other sites or on your own but not both because search engines can't always tell who wrote the original. Also for future reference, post a new article it on someone else's newsletter that gets posted online with a date on it. Then if anyone copies it you can point to that 2nd party site that you have no relation with that has a date of it which may help prove who had the article first (this won't stand up in court but works with most hosts). More effective is to get it copyrighted. Hosts will usually take it down right way if someone copied it and you have the copyright number.
A lot of sites do not provide back links to your articles I've also experienced this multiple times. About the content duplication and recognizing your site as the original site for that article, I once read a detailed article on this, and how MSN identifies the originating site correctly, out of the big 3 Search Engines. I've searched a lot but can't seem to find that article. I'll post its link as soon as I find it.