How do i know and What i can do If “Someone Copy Your Blog’s Content” , either articles, post or even image from my blog.
Nowadays, being online and having one person copy each other is a common problem. Especially there are lots of article spinning software that you can buy everywhere on internet.
As a newbie on blogging, i was very panic when i found my post was in a blog which is an autoblog. I was then looking around for suggestions for this problem. I have been collecting the informations, and today i want to share it with you.
How do i know someone copy your blog’s content
You can check this with a free online tool, which is copyscape.com, and enter your URL address in there, and see the results. Check one by one website, if they link to your site or just copying.
You can also use Google alert, this will enable Google sends you alert if someone copy your blog’s content or put some exact phrases in their website via email.
This is tips that i can give to you if someone copy your blog’s content or website content :
1. Autoblog websites are not stealing or copying if they post link back to your site. They even help your site to get better position in SERPs because it gives you a link.
2. If there is no link to your site, or this blog is not autoblog and just plain copying or stealing then try to look in the blog or website where your content is posted if there is a contact page or contact form. If you find an email address, this would go fine. Write the webmaster of the website to remove the copied content.
This is my own experience, one day, i found my article and images are completely copied. (although i do redirect all my images via .htaccess to prevent hotlinking, he did save my images on his server, see my post about how to stop people stealing images). So I contacted this website nicely, and he did remove the post. So try this first, definitely.
3. If writing to the owner does not help, contact the webhost of the blog. How to find it? Go to http://whois.domaintools.com/ and enter the URL. Once you find the webhost, contact the webhost about this, and they should react.
4. If the webhost does not react, contact the ISP of this webhost.
So there were my tips if you got your blog’s content copied and stolen.
For more references on what to do if someone copy your blog’s content, see :
1. http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/02/07/copyright-blogging-and-content-theft/
2. http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/10/what-do-you-do-when-someone-steals-your-content/
To some of you who thinks “can i copy someone’s article and put in my blog?” answer is simple, no, your blog might be penalized if you copy exactly the same content. if you want to wrtite similar topic, get the article spinned or put link as resource to the original. You wouldn’t like if someone copy your blog’s content, so you won’t copy others too :D
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I am a project supervisor and have to check papers on regular basis. Previously I used one popular paid plagiarism checker. Then, one of my friends told me about aafter.com free plagiarism checker. Now, I can check any written article to see whether it has similarity with any other pages on the internet.
To use this feature, I have to type *** (3 stars) and then paste ‘The Document’ in the AAfter’s search box. The search result shows the links to WebPages, if any, that contains similar text as that of the document. I can check as many articles as I need without signing up and installing any software.
@Edith, That plagiarism checker sounds awesome, i have visited the site, and didn’t find where i can check documents, however i might want to figure it out tomorrow.
Thanks for the tip and commenting :D
Go to the site and type *** (3 stars) in the search box and then paste your document. Finally press enter. You can also click on the ‘free application’ button, just above the search box for more.
@Edith, Thanks! I have checked it, and it works fine.
However the results give you the keyword phrases which is in the document, i guess two same sentences are not considered as plagiarism.
For plagiarism i use http://www.duplichecker.com/ :)
it works well for me !
Thanks for the option Shashank!
Grrrr thanks for this post. I’ve up to the stage of telling the web host but they didn’t give me a good reply and I’ve sent like 4-5 emails
Time to go to the ISP if I can ever find it out
Michael,
Have you tried to send email to the webmaster? This happened to me twice, and they removed my posts.
Or if they have advertisements on their sites, report this to the advertiser (even Google AdSense).
I hope this is going to help, i hate when people copied our works!
Sent the email 4 times maybe. 2 emails had the same reply, saying they would take an action yet nothing happened.
Tried sending an email again, this time with copyright infringment notice, breach of U.S act/law, etc that I got from another blogger.. let’s see
It looks like an automated blog because everytime I publish a post, it’s there too.
Well, i actually do not mind if an autoblog scraps my content, as long as they put links to my site. It will be benefit for SERP, but yes, it just sux when they dont put links back.
Let me know how it goes, i am curious! Best of Luck!!
Well it’s an automated script so it’s exactly the same copy words by words. I realized this when I put some internal linking to my other posts and WordPress told me of trackbacks
They replied:
“Thank you for supplying us with this information.
After having checked the details supplied in your communication, we have come to the conclusion that internally we do not have the capacity to deal with this issue. We ask that you please contact your local authority to follow up this matter.”
Grr.. they are the webhost provider! Can’t they just suspend or at least send warning emails.. definitely going to write a post about this and hope people will never ever register with them
Sorry for my rantings :D thanks for being a good listener haha..better stop now
I was running a test server once and the thing scraped content from other people’s blogs. The purpose of the test server was to auto-create directories. Somehow, people found out what I was doing and came at me throwing insults and being just plain rude. When I sent back the reply email with the finished results they all apologized and asked to be added to my directory, but since they were rude I blocked them.
BTW – my test server was not available to the public, but I am guessing their blog program noticed the scrape.
Just a heads up, before you are rude to someone copying your content, make sure that A) The content is being stolen, not ADVERTISED. and B) Ensure that they speak your language. Translators are useful, but hardly ever accurate.
Yea,
I have also spotted my contents were copied in a blog too, i don’t know why but those people are from Indonesia or India :-(
I really support you to defend your own content and no, don’t be sorry for your rantings :-) I really want to know how it goes.
Have a nice day/night, Michael!