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How to Find sites that are stealing your content

09 November 2011

Content stealing is rife on the internet, and there is every chance that if you have written something useful, interesting or insightful that someone will steal it and put it up on their own blog within a few weeks. Fortunately, there are easy ways to find this out.

Unfortunately, there is not a lot you can do about it if you do find that someone has stolen your content.

Most fortunately of all, though, is that thanks to changes made in 2010 - 2011 to Google’s search ranking algorithms, people who steal content seldom gain very much advantage from it, reducing the need for you to lose sleep over your stolen content and traffic.

Content Stealing vs Pingbacks

When I made my first website, I saw to my great distress that someone had used some kind of script to take excerpts from my content and place it on their blog (with little or no context). I didn’t see the point, but I was annoyed - until I realized that they had posted the link to my article there. While I didn’t get much traffic from referrals from the site, the incoming links did help my own articles to gain search results positions.

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