Something I really, really dislike…
Author: Stefan Vervoort | Please Comment!…is when people stealing your content. What makes them to do this? Below, you can read my view on such situation. It includes my own story too…
What makes them to do this? Very simple. They don’t have the motivation, money, skill or time to write their own articles. On the other hand they would like to get lots of visitors, and have their website rank high on Search Engines. My thought: Don’t start a website if you don’t like to do anything for it. But there are people who do.
For example, a website with the title: ‘Best Web Resources’. Great, you might think, a recourses blog thinks your articles are great. The only problem is when you find out they are not posting your link, but a whole, fully-copied article! For a starting blog like this, it’s something that can kill your site. My blog, with pagerank 0, has absolutely not a change against a pagerank 5 website like the one pointed above.
Search engines will think the stealing website has written the original article. What happens to the website who wrote the content? Of course, they think YOU stole it! And there lies a problem.
The big change exists the SE’s will punish you for stealing content and will not point to your article anymore. People searching on Google or Yahoo! will only see the website who has stolen this article and you’ll loose all those visitors. They don’t even know you have written that article!
What should you do to let them delete the articles from their website? I contacted them. What if they don’t want to delete the articles? Yea, what can you do? Not much, as far as I know. What if they told you they’ll add a link to your website? Great, you received a pagerank 5 backlink and… you might get screwed by the SE’s on the other hand.
Please, if someone reading this article knows what to do in this situation, let me know. By doing that via the comments, other readers will know the solution too.
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3:47 pm on September 14th, 2008
I believe there is nothing much we can do now for this situation. Some times a simple disable “right click” and “save as” for your website, or convert your article into image file so they will feel lazy to retype everthing.. ; )
6:36 am on September 15th, 2008
Yes, but disabling “right-click” isn’t very user-friendly. An article into an image isn’t great too, you will not have any SEO help with your article then!