Article Piracy - Can You Do Anything?

If someone copies your article can you do anything about it?

There are plenty of people on the 'net who need content for their websites and one way of obtaining this is to copy other people's articles. This will provide them with ever updated, if not original, content and Google likes content, as we know.

If someone copies your article is that a problem? Well in many circumstances it can actually be a good thing. As long as the links to your original article and your authorship is acknowledged and the links in the article that you created to promote your own site are left intact, then it is great.

In those circumstances you gain authority as an author, there are backlinks to your original article and there are backlinks to your own site, which people can follow to your promotion.

Those kind of copies are not what this tutorial is about. This is about what you can do to stamp down on the other kinds of copies. The people who blatantly steal your best articles, remove all the links and give you no credit. A lot of people just shrug and say, “it is inevitable so move on and forget it” but sometimes you come across a site so blatantly full of other people's stolen articles that you feel something should be done.

I was doing some research on my competition the other day for a keyword that has hovered on page 2 of Google for months. A quoted search for the keyword actually put me on page 1, but my eye was drawn to other sites for that keyword. There was my Articlesbase article, but there were several other pages where my article had been copied, and my curiosity got the better of me.

All the pages I looked at (there were 9) except one, had kept all the links in. I thought - ok no problem, it is just one -but then I looked over the site further. I found that every page I looked at was a straight copy from Articlesbase - with the links taken out. Plagiarism on a major scale.

I decided to see just what could be done.