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Hello!

I am curious about something.  I have noticed that there is another website out there called everydaytipsandtricks.com, and a lot of my articles are ending up on this site (verbatim, although they do credit my site in the article).  Should I care about this?  I know I have done searches for certain terms and this site comes up in the search engine and mine doesn't, yet the article was lifted directly from my site.

Here is an example:

http://www.everydaytipsandtric…..-you-save/

 

Should I care about this?

COntact them, ask them to stop.  If they don't there are things that can be done to make their lives miserable.

Send an email to their host.  Hosting companies are very serious about content and ownership and will request the owner take it down.  If the owner doesn't do so, the webhost will usually terminate the account in 48-72 hours until the content is removed.

 

I would definitely care about this.

Post edited 8:32 am – January 30, 2011 by JT_McGee

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Hmm…looks like they're on a dedicated box.

 

First, I'd report the site to google: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en

Then I would go straight to their hosting company: http://peakdigital.net/contactus.html and lodge a complaint.  Tell them that the site is stealing your content.  Ideally, email and then do a follow up call.  Email = official correspondence, call means you mean business.

 

There's no reason to accept blatant copy theft just because they mention your blog.  That's ridiculous!  

 

Doh! Mbhunter beat me to it twice…by seconds on the first post.  Not sure how I missed it the second time around.

I would especially be concerned if they were ranking higher for my own keywords then I was. He took your content and never contacted you. Crazy. I would send an email telling him to stop using your content.

JT_McGee said:

Hmm…looks like they're on a dedicated box.

 

First, I'd report the site to google: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en

Then I would go straight to their hosting company: http://peakdigital.net/contactus.html and lodge a complaint.  Tell them that the site is stealing your content.  Ideally, email and then do a follow up call.  Email = official correspondence, call means you mean business.

 

There's no reason to accept blatant copy theft just because they mention your blog.  That's ridiculous!  

 

Doh! Mbhunter beat me to it twice…by seconds on the first post.  Not sure how I missed it the second time around.

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Where did you find the PeakDigital information?  I thought the company hosted the website itself.

mbhunter said:

JT_McGee said:

Hmm…looks like they're on a dedicated box.

 

First, I'd report the site to google: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en

Then I would go straight to their hosting company: http://peakdigital.net/contactus.html and lodge a complaint.  Tell them that the site is stealing your content.  Ideally, email and then do a follow up call.  Email = official correspondence, call means you mean business.

 

There's no reason to accept blatant copy theft just because they mention your blog.  That's ridiculous!  

 

Doh! Mbhunter beat me to it twice…by seconds on the first post.  Not sure how I missed it the second time around.

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Where did you find the PeakDigital information?  I thought the company hosted the website itself.
 

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Whois.sc/offendingdomain.com

They listed the company name, I googled it. 

That sucks.  I noticed that one article of mine was posted on some foreign middle eastern website.  I got a trackback for it and saw that they just stole an article in its entirety without giving me any credit.  But at least (so far) that was just once. 

 

Your story reminded me of something i read on problogger today, timely enough as it is. 

 

Here is what the article said that pertains to you:

 

7. “If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don’t let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else’s advertising.”

There’s nothing more heartbreaking for a new blogger when you see your content being scraped onto another blog or your intellectual property being used by others without credit.

I still get upset by this from time to time, however there’s one thing that I’ve noticed despite hundreds of sites each day republishing my work without permission and/or credit. Nobody actually seems to read those blogs.

The key to successful blogging is unique and useful information. People who simply regurgitate what you write, or even repost it word for word, either eventually give up (because nobody reads it) or get caught out (and stop in disgrace).

While there are times when I’ve chased down others who blatantly steal my stuff without credit (there is a line) I find it much more beneficial to spend my time creating more great content than policing how people use what I’ve already produced.

Focus the bulk of your time upon producing and being the best you can be. This will have more positive impact upon your business than the negative tasks of stopping spammers and thieves stealing your old ideas.

-credit, problogger. net (not trying to be that guy). 

 

Good luck in dealing with this awful act.  If you could, please let us know what you do so we can maybe all learn from it. 

everydaytips said:

Thanks everyone!  I emailed google, I emailed the site owner.  I tried emailing the host, but the email bounced back. 

Now I will just see what the responses are!

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Kris,

Can you share the contact medium used for Google? I have several issues to report as well in terms of dup content.

THanks