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[Aphrodite]

After publishing my last article on the site I wanted to make sure is 100% unique(I bought articles from Fiverr) so I open http://copyscape.com/ and insert URL and hit "Go" button and find out someone copies my site.

What should I do to STOP that guy?

 

[Hermes]

After publishing my last article on the site I wanted to make sure is 100% unique(I bought articles from Fiverr) so I open http://copyscape.com/ and insert URL and hit "Go" button and find out someone copies my site.

What should I do to STOP that guy?

You should send a DMCA takedown notice and copyright removal requests to Google to as soon as you can. That's the best you can do!

 

[Anonymous]

Google will penalize him automatically. No worries baby doll!

 

[CloneScript]

Google will penalize him automatically. No worries baby doll!

Unfortunately that takes time. Like till next Google update or so.

 

[moneyman]

I would definitely send them a cease and desist through email contact from their web site. If they don't have one, then try to look up the WHOIS information using godaddy or another registrar to see who the administrative and technical contacts are for the site and send an email to them. If there is a phone number and not an email address, then you may want to call that from a different phone number and request directly that they remove any copied information of yours from their site.

If you hold the copyright to the information or are licensed to use it exclusively while they are not, then you have every right to do this. If there is a physical mailing address, you can send them a letter, too. If none of this works, then you can go ahead and do the DMCA takedown request from Google.

If they are outside of the country and are not held to the jurisdiction where you are, then you would just want to contact them via email first, and if there's no response after 7 to 14 days, then send an official DMCA request to Google to have them removed from their listings, and explain why.

There is another way you can do this, too. If it's a large amount of content they are copying from you, can put somewhat of a trojan horse into the information. Just a quick sentence like "Btw, if this isn't from the XYZ web site, then you're probably viewing this on the copycat's web site where they steal my works." If they never read the entire content of the information and there's a lot of large paragraphs, then you may be able to get away with making them promote the truth about themselves and how they stole it from you without even being aware of it.

Another approach that is close but more easily hidden, is where you can place links in the content that you know they are copying, and on those links (which they leave as-is when they copy your content), you can have it detect the referring web site, and if it the page was linked from their domain rather than yours, you can give them a message that tells them about the person stealing your content. When the person stealing content visits the links from your site, they will never see this before they copy it. They would only see it after they copied it, and wouldn't be able to control that like you can unless they manually edit and modify each and every one of the links you include in the content. Since they are copying so much from you, it seems like they are trying to avoid doing work, so it's likely that they wouldn't do this and as such, would be telling on themselves without knowing it. :)

 

[poplar]

Follow Hermes advice. Google will decide which is "the original", but the automated system does not always pick the right one.

Sending a takedown notice is not difficult and in my experience normally works. I only resort to report them to their webmaster, Google, or Adsense if they don't comply or are so dodgy I do not want to send them a document containing my legal name and street address.

If you do not defend your work the copying will proliferate ad more and more people will assume that because the see the work everywhere it must be in the public domain.

 

[suresh]

Before buying the articles, try to check them with copyscape as most of them sell copied or spunned articles.
Make sure write a page about copyright on your blog that articles shouldn't copied.
Contact to the other person if he or she will reply or not , send information to DMCA for removal your content from their blogs, but these cheaters use the hosting companies that ignores DMCA.
Get help form Google to remove those contents from Google, that is the last option you can do else have to file a case in the court.

 

[vinaya]

Write to the admin of the copied site and ask him to take it down, if he does not follow, check his domain and find out about his web host. Then write to the web host about your issue. I am sure, the web host will block him. IF your problem still persists, file a DMCA.

 

[Nocturnal Writer]

@moneyman has a good and comprehensive possible solutions against those copycats. I would reiterate here that practical remedies. They are as follows:

1. Email the site admin/owner to remove your copied post.
2. Refer to Google DMCA for removal by giving the reason.
3. Indicate sites with their links that copy your articles just below the last paragraph of your post.

Copycats couldn't be eliminated or eradicated. But they can be controlled with the above practical remedies.

 

[Rayone]

I suggest you to report the matter immediately and then check again what part of your article is copied (if it's not a total copy paste job) then check whether there are few matches or entire paragraphs are copied content because in some cases the checker sees too much so I will not trust entirely on that. But there are increasing cases of content stealing recently so take all possible steps.

 

[rz3300]

This is certainly a serious issue, and you need to take the proper legal steps to ensure that you are safe and all of your information is safe. In this day and age you cannot take any chances when it comes to identity theft and matters like that, so contact any site administrators that you can and alert them of the issue as soon as possible.

 

[Petesede]

Unfortunately that takes time. Like till next Google update or so.

Just to be clear, if you published that article first, then Google will barely recognize the other site. You really have no chance of losing traffic. If you rank #15 on google, then they will rank #90s. These guys are lazy, not only are they copying your site and creating it as duplicate content, but at the same time they are not able to do any real SEO for that article.

It burns me up way to much, and sometimes I get angry.. but it is very easy to use Google Search to relax a bit. Yes, they steal my article, but they can´t rank on Google with it. Remember, Google knows this is a major issue. If that other site is nothing except duplicate content, Google is just going to punish their entire site.

 

[Corzhens]

Before buying the articles, try to check them with copyscape as most of them sell copied or spunned articles.
Make sure write a page about copyright on your blog that articles shouldn't copied.
Contact to the other person if he or she will reply or not , send information to DMCA for removal your content from their blogs, but these cheaters use the hosting companies that ignores DMCA.
Get help form Google to remove those contents from Google, that is the last option you can do else have to file a case in the court.

If that bought articles have been published before (the one you saw as a copy) I think you have a problem with the copyright. Fiverr is answerable to you but that would depend on the terms of agreement. I guess sites like Fiverr have an escape key in their contract of sale. But sending a cease and desist "request" for that particular article is a good diplomatic approach to the issue. And if nothing happens then my advice for you to hire a writer to rehash the article so it will not be a copycat.

 

[BMF]

The first piece of advice: DON'T FREAK OUT!

Now there are couple questions here so you can decide if it's really needed to go after the guy that copy your content.

Does he link back to your site?
If he copies your articles but links back to your site don't even bother to ask to take down your article, in fact, this will help you rank higher.

Does he rank higher than you?
If he links back but he ranks higher in SERPs with a copy of your own content you must ask him to remove copied content.

Hope this helps!

 

[Po1son]

My friend had his articles copied and it was from a forum and he reported the person to the forum owner and was able to solve the issue. I hate plagiarists. Stealing others work is a big crime.

 

[Lovely]

Copying contents or plagarism is an offense as such nobody should let it slide or laying low.If you're sure about the content ,then I think you mailed the Admin or moderator of the site.If nothing is done about it then you could make a report.

I think Google search engine usually knows which article was posted first and ranks it higher,so I think for ranking on Google search,you do not have much problem with that.

You could report to Google adsence which the site monetizes with adsence but for forum like Narialand that doesn't use Google adsence then it wil be a problem.This is one site I know the member just lift articles to paste on the forum

If nothing else works,well,I suggest you could just rewrite the article to make it unique and repost it.

 

[TDL_GamerYT]

The guy that did that to you could even be sent to court with lawsuite if you want to, he's doing an illegal act! Do as what these people say, you'll be fine.

 

[overcast]

If he has the adsene account then report to google and get it banned. that's the worst thing you can do. also you can report to the host and take down your site. and this way you can easily take down a lot of content. it's just a matter of time when you're dealing with the people who are into the copying business. they can be sued if the hosting and the google adsense is responsive. apart from that nothing can be done. you have to just learn to stay silent at the most. i have had those days and I feel helpless.

 

[ripon01]

Excellent question ,I am interested for ans.

 

[xXInfectedXx]

Excellent question! The answer is simple, send a DMCA takedown notice to there site. It stands for (Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This should get things resolved for you.