Attention community

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I have never posted anything negative on the forum but this time it is a must. ATTENTION ALL MEMBERS OF WEALTHY AFFILIATE. If anyone should ever contact you and tell you that they have copied everything on your website so they can use it as a template REPORT THEM IMMEDIATELY. They are in essence stealing from you even if your site has not made any money at this point. They are stealing your content that you spent hours developing. This hurts your ability to earn an income. REPORT THEM IMMEDIATELY. I failed to report them as soon as I got the message from them so now I am going to have to redo ever post that I have done to be sure that my content can't be used without my permission. I have already contacted Kyle about this and he is aware of the situation. I am truly sorry to have to write such a negative post. This is a place where we share idea not STEAL THEM. Again WA community I am truly sorry to have to write such a post but I thought everyone should be on guard against content thieves. It only takes one to ruin your income.


Sincerely,

Jerry McCoy

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Thanks, Jerry for informing the community. I wish you the best and hope this person, suffer consequences for their actions. I know you work hard like the rest of us on your content and don't deserve this happening to you. Thanks again for giving the community the heads up. I hope it doesn't take you long to fix your site.

Hey Jerry, sorry to hear about your problem.

Content theft is a big problem online. I was listening just the other day to Pat Flynns Smart Passive Income podcast where he had a lawyer on as a guest talking about the DMCA and how to go about combating copyright infringement, well worth a listen. I am very surprised they contacted you to tell you they had copied your content, seems like a very odd thing to do.

They worded it in such a way to make me think that my site was unusually good and that they wanted to use it as a template. At first I was flattered then realized they were going to be using the content that I had created instead of creating their own.
Thanks,
Jerry

Dang! Jerry! I am so sorry to hear this...

Your alert to the WA Community is deeply appreciated and I pray that the theives who "think" they will prosper from plagarism "think" Melania...

#Ijs

*Even when we don't understand things happen for a reason. Lets be on our guard...

Peace~

I felt as a member of WA that it was my responsibility to alert the community about this to help protect everyone. As a community we have to try to protect everyone so that we have an organization where we want to help one another.
Thanks,
Jerry

Agree..

So sorry this has happened to you. It's very strange that someone would 1) admit to copying everything on your site, and 2) actually copy everything on your site. It is such a blatant disregard of copyright laws so as to be mind-blowing.
Make sure you have a copyright in the footer of your site, and even at the bottom of every post -- © 2018 All Rights Reserved or something like that. Certainly if someone is hell-bent on copying content off someone else's site, then nothing you can do will stop them. But a letter from an attorney may ask them to take down the info that is intellectual property and clearly belongs to you.
Good luck...

I am in the process of putting the code in the footer of both my sites.
Thanks for sharing,
Jerry

Sorry to hear this, but you should put in your mind that when you create something no body can change it or use it because there is many question gonna be asked so to answer the question you should be creator, and who did this act he is proving to you that you are intelligent showing you that you are strong, in the way he/she cant do that create a content to a website, I which in future content will be more protected. Hakim

Hammer11B has given me a code that copyrights my content. You may want to ask him for it so that you can copyright your material as well.
Thanks.
Jerry

I don't think there is much we can do to stop it. As soon as we make anything public, we have given up control of it.
It is so wrong, but I think it happens offline also.
Someone comes up with a great invention but does not have the funds to mass market it.
Then a company mass produces a cheaper copy of it.
It is a Dog Eat Dog world.
However, I don't think it would ruin your income.
Coca Cola still have an income even though Pepsi are selling the same product.
Don't worry about what they copied.
Just write more. If they copied 50 pages but don't know how to write one, then in 5 years time they will still only have 50 pages. But you will have your original 50 pages plus the 1000 you are going to write.

Sorry to hear about it and thank you for sharing with us, but as I said, I don't think there is any way we can prevent it. Dave

Thanks for the input. I am now copyrighting my content.
Thanks,
Jerry

Since the content was on your site first you don't have to redo it. You can use DMCA to do a takedown request, and contact Google. Your content should be seen as the original source.

Many people don't understand that this is bad thing to do so I would ask them to remove it first. If they refuse to do it then feel free to play hardball.

Thanks for the info
Jerry

Wow I did not know about this. It is great that you shared this for Jerry. Not sure what DCMA is but it is nice to know that Jerry can tell google his is the original. Cheers for that. Dave

There seems to be a lot of attempted scamming going on at WA lately. Others have reported being harassed by PM, some are saying that there are those here trying to steal referrals, and now your recent experience with stolen content. It's a sad thing to see all of this happening, but with how big WA has gotten recently and more and more people joining every day, some bad apples unfortunately slip through the cracks. Thank you for the warning.

I felt that it was in the best interest of the community to sound the alarm. I have worked for weeks on some of my content. I just thought everyone should know. But things have a way or righting themselves. Check out my latest post I MUST HAVE LOST MY MIND. Those bad apples can be used for apple cider vinegar.
Thanks,
Jerry

Hi dear JerryMcCoy
I am really sorry to hear that happening to you, But
No no you did a good job, You are protecting us, I don't know what the others think about that, But in my point of view, You don't have to feel sorry about that, This is an alert cant protect the community, Thank you for warning us, & This is protection, have a good time
God bless

Thank you for your support. I felt that the community should know and be proactive if this ever happened to them. We are a COMMUNITY and that means we help one another when they need it.
Thanks,
Jerry

Here is a code to add a Copyright to the bottom of your theme. You can add this to the footer of the theme in plain text or html:

function wpb_copyright() {
global $wpdb;
$copyright_dates = $wpdb->get_results("
SELECT
YEAR(min(post_date_gmt)) AS firstdate,
YEAR(max(post_date_gmt)) AS lastdate
FROM
$wpdb->posts
WHERE
post_status = 'publish'
");
$output = '';
if($copyright_dates) {
$copyright = "© " . $copyright_dates[0]->firstdate;
if($copyright_dates[0]->firstdate != $copyright_dates[0]->lastdate) {
$copyright .= '-' . $copyright_dates[0]->lastdate;
}
$output = $copyright;
}
return $output;
}

add_shortcode('copyright','wpb_copyright');
add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

There is also a plugin to disable rightclick on your entire site. Hre that is:

WP Content Copy Protection

I know that is other stuff for watermarling and going further. If you are interested just let me know. I hope this helps, wouldn't want to have it happen again.

I just installed the plugin and it works like a charm.

Thank you so much for this. I will most definitely use this for my protection.
Thanks.
Jerry

Here is to better days buddy. Can't keep us down.

This doesn't stop a screenshot or a person with a notebook. But if it helps you feel more secure by all means.

I have worked too long and too hard to be kept down.
Thanks
Jerry

Check out my latest post I MUST HAVE LOST MY MIND
but seriously
Thanks for your help and support.
Jerry

Cath88 would like for you to send her this code. I tried to copy and paste but it would not let me send it.
Thanks,
Jerry

Yea for some reason the message platform won't let you input code. You could just send her a link to this string.

Harris would you PM Cath88. I believe she wants the code to protect her site.
Thanks,
Jerry

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