I just found someone stole my article and posted it word-for-word on their blog. They did not even link to my article or say who wrote it! What can I do about it and how can I stop this guy from having my article on their site? Can I report him to Google or something?
I would start by contacting that person and asking politely for them to reference you as it is your article. Other than that.......the only thing that can be done is to take legal action.
They don't have any contact info. It also looks like they stole more articles from other websites too.
If they have stolen others articles, they are not likely to be receptive to a polite request. If you need to find out who owns the domain........as long as they do not have privacy activated you should be able to go to Google and type in Who Is and find out who owns the domain. If privacy is turned on it may only give you the name of the provider and you could contact them to ask how they will proceed to see if they will do anything about it. I don't have enough posts yet to post a link but whois . net is where I would start.
Hi guys, The issue that you are talking about is one that has been happening on the internet since it was created, many sites have stolen content from others and have never had to reference the article or content to the correct owner as many people threaten legal action but never take it further than some nasty emails been sent. With things like auto blogging coming into action, you will see more and more content being stolen as people edit the coding within the software to remove the reference and just skim a host of other sites, taking the other persons hard work and time away from under their nose. I hope that you get it sorted but from past experience, i got more water out of a stone..... Good luck
Yes, I found the owner of the domain. He lives in Russia, what a surprise. I also have his name, email and address. I will contact him just to make sure he knows I'm aware that he stole my article but I doubt he knows much English since he would write his own articles if he knew. He also owns 1,200 other domain names. Must be some kind of a Web spammer.
Good luck. You could also contact the domain hosting service to make them aware of this. No telling but they might do something about it. Best of luck!!
I contacted him and waiting for the response. I will contact his domain host if he does not do anything about it. Also, I can contact Google to remove him from their search engine listings. He has over 1,200 domains, so that will hurt him badly if he gets blacklisted with Google and other search engines.
You are right, but how stupid is this person when Google and other search engines can easily spot duplicate content nowadays? The content he stole will not get him any higher rankings, so why do it? He even has Google ads on his site. What a moron. I just do not know how Google has not banned him yet after seeing how much stuff he stole from others.
If your article was in the SE's prior to him putting it on his, I wouldn't worry about it too much. He probably got docked for duplicate content as many people who use this tactic get.
Well you may stop him stealing your articles by just contacting him, but I don't think something legal you can do just because of some articles... Hope Google bans him...
Whether Google bans him, or not, isn't likely to slow him down one bit. I'm sure his main type of marketing hasn't got anything to do with Google. These days, Google doesn't play as big of a role in marketing for auto blogs and such. Google's rankings are uncontrollable. Social sites offer better traffic.
I've had something similar to this happen to me once, but I was able to sort things out with couple of threatening emails. Well, that's what I thought initially. We made a deal that he'd use my content as long as he'd link back to my site and he did, but later I found out that he had changed the link's font size to the smallest possible so that you couldn't even read what it said. I wish you good luck dealing with this guy, but it looks like these content thieves will find a way cheat you one way or another.
Oh, it will slow him down. He makes a living apparently from Google AdSense and having Google ban him would end his fiasco very quickly.
I will if I don't get a reply from him. I want to give him a chance to take it down. Does anyone know the link where to go to report this kind of thing to Google or the e-mail address if I happen to need it?
I would contact his web host and send them a very professional looking letter that threatens legal action against them. If they are a big company then they will investigate the incident and will try to fix it in order to cover themselves.
Hope everything works out for ya, but you can't let this get to you. The Internet is one huge place, and having a couple of sites here and there copy your article(s) is nothing to worry about. These webmasters hardly ever gets the traffic they want anyway, so.... You know what you could do, for shits n' giggles...write up an article on your experience, how you feel, and all of that, name the sites that do this, and, how to counter them. You think that would do well in Ezine? If it hasn't been done already, that is. Put in the keywords article theft. Do a series of such articles.
best way is to send an inquiry to the webhost/name registrar and or provider. You can also ring his phone if you can get the whois info (namecheap offers whois protection, so its gameover if he has it. Contact the nameregistrar in that case)
I think it's not big deal as long as their input the real address where the article taken from.... other wise it can raise your traffic