The first thing to do is to look at the article and see what kind of links you put in. If all your links are hyperlinked keywords, then you’re at fault. When anyone copies an article where all the links are hyperlinked words, those links get deleted due to the insufficiently advanced copying technology available.
Most people aren’t going to go to the trouble and re-link your keywords. I understand them. I’d love it if they did but I understand if they do not.
If you had only hyperlinked words, the site that copied your article should have copied a link to the ezine publisher.
If you have a URL link and it’s missing, it might still not be dealing with thieves. It still might be an innocent mistake. The copier just did not know the proper article copying etiquette.
Since that’s possible, the first thing you need to do is find out a way to contact them. One way of finding that is to go to
or some other site like these.
You tell them, in nice and polite words that when they are copying articles, they must give proper credit. Tell them how they do that. Also, send them the URL for the ezine article publisher’s agreement to copy content. Each ezine publisher has one.
If the offending site owner doesn’t comply right away, contact them again to let them know they’re breaking the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by not giving you proper credit. Also let them know that you’re willing to take further action and what such further action is going to be.
Every time a post appears in google matching your title they will email you with the link.
I have been ripped off many times, though usually it is a poor rewrite of my original article (identical except a few synonymous word changes) so I guess technically is isn't really stolen. They don't bother changing the title though which is kind of stupid on their part.
Anyway I used to get angry and tried to contact them etc. but you will find if you write many articles, you will be spending all your time trying to get justice and it is nearly impossible to rectify and not worth the effort.
The funny thing is my site seems to benefit even without the links intact. I always let google index my article on my site before submitting it to ezine. (the odds of someone finding the article on my site and stealing it are zero, but ezine articles get ripped off constantly).
I don't have proof but I think google is sophisticated enough to detect a duplicate article and give credit to the original indexing of that article. My site has leapt up the serps it seems even faster once I start getting web alerts for many duplicate (or near duplicate) listings.
Just my theory though.
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PS I Love the burn in hell bit though I'm disappointed you left out the instructions for ensuring they do LOL !!!!
PS I Love the burn in hell bit though I'm disappointed you left out the instructions for ensuring they do LOL !!!!
I tracked them to another website based in the Philippines. I sent them an e-mail quoting the Articlesbase.com terms and conditions for reprinting articles. They responded immediately and added my name and links, and blamed the "oversight" on a Wordpress plug in they employ to search for articles and post them to their blog. I don't know if a plug in is to blame or not, but their blog site is full of articles that they probably ripped off and the original authors have no idea they're doing it. If they hadn't responded to my e-mail and agreed to rectify the situation I wouldn't have known what my next steps would have been, so thank you for this information.
The ironic thing about it is that it was EzineArticles.com that brought it to my attention after I submitted the article to them. They found the article on the blog site and thought I ripped off the article, so they suspended my account! I was able to prove that it was my article and it all worked out, but it just goes to show how messy things can get.
I tracked them to another website based in the Philippines. I sent them an e-mail quoting the Articlesbase.com terms and conditions for reprinting articles. They responded immediately and added my name and links, and blamed the "oversight" on a Wordpress plug in they employ to search for articles and post them to their blog. I don't know if a plug in is to blame or not, but their blog site is full of articles that they probably ripped off and the original authors have no idea they're doing it. If they hadn't responded to my e-mail and agreed to rectify the situation I wouldn't have known what my next steps would have been, so thank you for this information.
The ironic thing about it is that it was EzineArticles.com that brought it to my attention after I submitted the article to them. They found the article on the blog site and thought I ripped off the article, so they suspended my account! I was able to prove that it was my article and it all worked out, but it just goes to show how messy things can get.
