Lifehack chooses when to publish my stuff.

I just got lucky. I decided to Google the title of my article for fun, and I found something very queer in the SERPs. I clicked through and boy, was I shocked. Not forgetting how fast my article was spun.

Yeah, I meant Lifehack just published and it's already been spun!

Oh. Haha, yes... Exactly.

I know, I've heard of it.

Lifehack isn't my site! Heh.

Oh!! You were showing an example of a spun article and wanting to know how to protect your site? Definitely get it registered for free at DMCA and if you find any spun articles, you can show it was protected.

No! That article on Lifehack is MY contribution! But I don't own Lifehack!!

Ahhhh! DMCA site is down right now, but I would write to them and tell them to take it down. Get to DMCA as soon as you can and get your site protected.

Heh, I just asked a friend for this yesterday. It's called Digg Digg. You can customize it to have other buttons.

Thank you so much. I couldn't find one I liked and the one I used didn't have pinterest in it

That's a little too hideous looking for me! :P

How do I report to Google? Never done such a thing before.

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/article-theft-what-you-can-do-about-it/reporting-copyright-theft-to-google

good blog on this site.

Thanks for that link. I'll wait a day or 2 first to see if they respond to my email. And then I will resort to Google.

Not really that bothered actually. Just that if I can take it down, then I will. I've contacted both Lifehack and Fooyoh.

Just realised it is you who have commented over there! :) Yup, I have contacted both Lifehack and Fooyoh about the matter. We'll wait and see.

Thanks for your help, I will take a look at it.

Realised that shows the number of threaded conversations. Not the total comment count.

I thought that meant that each comment is counted, including the admin replies. That's the way it shows on most blogs. Maybe I misunderstood.

As Wayne mentioned, it is a good idea to have a siterubix test site where you can test these things to see how they perform before you add them to your main blog.

The code in that thread is given as:

<?php comments_number('0', '1 comment', '% comments'); ?>

Maybe you can ask the developer if that code would work and exactly where to insert it. I see you are using a paid theme.

The theme developer should be able to answer a direct question like that instead of just referring you to the codex page.

~Jude

He referred me to that page plus the file and line I needed to edit. But that's all. He said it was best I pay someone to get this job done for me if I still didn't know.

But I realised it isn't as simple as just adding that piece of code. Or maybe it is, just that I'm too newbie to know what I'm doing, heh.

If it were me, I would send Bo Gilbert (bothewebguy) a private message with the exact information the theme developer gave you.

Bo has been building websites for 15 years so I imagine he knows a thing or two and can guide you in the right direction, or refer you to the right person.

Basically, if you go to your theme options editor, and copy/save the relevant file as a backup into notepad (just in case you need to add it back), then you can go ahead and insert the code as per the theme developer's instructions. If you mess up, you can copy/paste your saved code back to your site either via your admin back office, or by FTP.

Or Bo might have another suggestion for you.

I would do it for you but I am not a coder. I can do simple things and sometimes I have messed up and have had to reinstate my backup file in order to return the site to normal...lol.

Does your theme have a forum? Sometimes others have asked the same question and have achieved what you are trying to do.

~Jude

I'm a total n00b at this, I wouldn't even know what to look out for.

Thanks. :)

I don't know and I'm posting this because I'm looking for answers myself! I just checked with some of my Facebook posts and noticed that only activities which say "Jeremy Ng shared a LINK" will be counted.

What I found is that groups where I posted my url in didn't have those words, and other people's likes on those weren't counted. Only my fan page and my own timeline had those words.

Go to the plugin website and read the setup guide.

Same has just happened to me. It shows in the rich snippet tool, but on none of my posts that are ranked, or my site when I look it up. Was all there last week. Looks like Google has a mind of it's own.

But it doesn't show up at all. Even if I type "site:(url)"

It's totally different from what I was used to.

Did you read the instructions? If it's working in the rich snippet testing tool, then it's working, just Google isn't currently *choosing* to use it. http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets R.

So how does Google "make up its mind" when to use? Any idea?

Nope. There's anecdotal evidence that Google ceases to display "Authorship" when DMCAs are filed against a site or there are breaches of it's "Webspam Content Violations", etc. It always has to be remembered, Google is a business as are the other major search engines, they're not public services, no-one has a "right" to even be indexed, let alone ranked or get Google Authorship displayed. It's always entirely up to them! R.

Right, thanks for the info.

That explains why I sometimes see my "Authorship" and other times it just doesn't show up.

I guess we can only do our best and let Google do its thing.

Thanks for the clarification.

Same thing for me. It's working on my Android Google Search app though.