Some Guy is Stealing my Articles!

charlie3

charlie3

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So I've started doing some serious article marketing lately and it's all 100% unique articles written by me, but there's some idiot who is scraping my articles and then posting them on his site conveniently without the affiliate links.

He's doing it the exact same day that they are indexed by Google and a lot of the time "his" articles are outranking my own. I know with some SEO I can go above his, but this is pissing me off.

I emailed him and he sent back some unreadable message in the most broken English I've ever read. The email wasn't even formatted correctly and he just made excuse upon excuse.

I'd just like for him to stop, but if he doesn't I'd be willing to go further. Any suggestions? Please serious ones first, but throw in some ridiculous if you want lol :D
 
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Send a dmca letter to his hosting company. They'll shut his site down real quick.
 
Or you can really make him a bad day by blastig his website with a lot of spam links or put his link inside a link farm that will be good bye for him.
 
drewz said:
Or you can really make him a bad day by blastig his website with a lot of spam links or put his link inside a link farm that will be good bye for him.
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I'd disagree with this, this has been discussed a lot here. If you want to know why not, just do a search. This is a bad practice in general.
 
This unfortunately happens with the article directories. Some a hole did the same with mine.

Someone should start a take-down service that is cheaper than a law firm. I'd pay for it.
 
I would go for route for you to go imo would be the dmca letter to the hosting company. Its worth a shot
 
Sinatra said:
Send a dmca letter to his hosting company. They'll shut his site down real quick.
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Just sent a DMCA email to his hosting provider. Although they don't seem to be based in the U.S. Do you think that's a problem?
 
Bross said:
Get over it, there is nothing you can do.
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Really man? You decided to post just that? That is by far the most useless comment I have come by this week so I will give you the "Most Useless/Don't Waste Your Time Ever Again Award"

Now please GTFO of my thread :fing02:
 
charlie3 said:
Just sent a DMCA email to his hosting provider. Although they don't seem to be based in the U.S. Do you think that's a problem?
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Well there wouldn't be a problem, but if they're offshore they're just going to ignore you. If that's the case, there isn't much you can do. If I've any ideas I'll let you know.
 
How is the guy monetizing your content? If he is using google adsense then you could report him to google. Just click on the "Ads by Google" part of the ad. It forwards you to a page where you can select something like "report a violation" and then you can select "This site is hosting my copyrighted content".

I guess something similar should be possible if he would use another method of monetizing.

Edit: Oh, and of course you can also report him to google directly. I would definitely do that. Go to

google / contact/ spamreport.html

fill it out and check the duplicate sites or pages option.

If possible I would do both things.
 
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You can try a letter to his domain name registrar and they can cancel his domain if the see fit. Its worth a try.
 
It would more beneficial for you to research how this guy is outranking you because even if you bring down this "idiot", some other "idiot" will do the same thing over again and you will be caught in an endless loop of policing your articles.
 
Maxi1 said:
How is the guy monetizing your content? If he is using google adsense then you could report him to google. Just click on the "Ads by Google" part of the ad. It forwards you to a page where you can select something like "report a violation" and then you can select "This site is hosting my copyrighted content".

I guess something similar should be possible if he would use another method of monetizing.

Edit: Oh, and of course you can also report him to google directly. I would definitely do that. Go to

google / contact/ spamreport.html

fill it out and check the duplicate sites or pages option.

If possible I would do both things.
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This. I completely forgot about google silly me. Get his Adsense banned and get his site deindexed. :)
 
charlie3 said:
So I've started doing some serious article marketing lately and it's all 100% unique articles written by me, but there's some idiot who is scraping my articles and then posting them on his site conveniently without the affiliate links.

He's doing it the exact same day that they are indexed by Google and a lot of the time "his" articles are outranking my own. I know with some SEO I can go above his, but this is pissing me off.

I emailed him and he sent back some unreadable message in the most broken English I've ever read. The email wasn't even formatted correctly and he just made excuse upon excuse.

I'd just like for him to stop, but if he doesn't I'd be willing to go further. Any suggestions? Please serious ones first, but throw in some ridiculous if you want lol :D
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Really and truly there is nothing that can be done. Sure you could send DCMA letters to them but what will that really accomplish? Someone else will just steal another article from another source. As Long as there are tools out there that scrape content, or any kinda autoblog tools, you content WILL get stolen, re-used and spit out to a hardly recognizable form. It's just the nature of the internet. Best thing you can do is hope that when they scrape your article they scrape your links as well. Easy way to get backlinks. All I'm saying is you have to learn to live with it, other wise it will drive you crazy trying to fix something that can't be fixed. You other option is turn off your computer and Never turn it on again.
 
gamecity said:
Not everything is about money. Some things just feel good when you do it.



Not true, it is very easy to get his adsense account banned. There is really no good alternative to adsense atm.
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I suppose the only problem is if the person you've had banned from ad sense can work out it was you (i.e. if you've already complained to him by email, etc).

Easy enough then for him to reciprocate on the ad sense front thro' some public proxies?
 
gamecity said:
Not true, it is very easy to get his adsense account banned. There is really no good alternative to adsense atm.
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So what about the next guy that steals it?? and the guy after that that isn't using adsene?? It's just a endless cycle, might as well enjoy it and not stress about it!
 
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