Dealing with a Website Copier

Dealing with a Website Copier

April 4th, 2008 | by Ankit |

This is one of the nightmare for small bloggers and webmasters what do do if some one copies there website ?

Like a guy on DigitalPoint reported that some one copied his content without his permissions and getting search engine benefits for the content.

Let me first tell every one who don’t know about the trick to find if your content is copied or not.

Well to find out if your content is copied or not there is a website called CopyScape. Just enter your website URL there and you will get a list of all the website copying your content or you copied the content from.

Now once you have found that someone is copying your content …The question is How to deal with a Website Copier ?

Well I will suggest you to go step by step …

First Email and request the webmaster or Blogger to remove copied content from his/her website. (If this don’t work … and you receive some email like you copied his/her content … don’t wonder as this happens … )

Now Come to the second step and Contact the WebHosting Company. As i had seen most of the WebHosting companies are strict regarding such matters and they will provide you with an immediately respond to your complaint.

How to find email address for a Hosting Company:

Run Whois lookup .. i.e.. (http://whois.sc/websitename.com) on your web browser to find the company providing web hosting. (Normally Hosting companies have email like .. abuse@companyname.com or it might be support@companyname.com).

What to write in the letter ?

Now remember as you are complaining for the copied content so you have to prove that you are the real author of that content … to prove you can just provide them with a Google catch Page of the content so as to prove Google crawled your web content earlier … you can also provide Website Page Rank … as normally i had noticed that copiers have new website and don’t have much Google Trust on them.

If the hosting company fails to act, Contact Search Engines and request them to Remove Duplicate Content from their Search Index.

Almost all major search engines Including Google and Yahoo accept complaints from users they remove search listings of the websites if the Website is violating the copyright laws. You can File a Digital Millennium Copyright Act complaint with search engines against that website and remember it’s equivalent to a Cease & Desist Notice.

If Nothing works just Complain the Advertisers.

Contact advertisers and tell them the truth that the website offering there ad’s is stealing your content. Advertisers like Adsense and YPN will take immediate action against it and will ban there ad’s from that website.

Some Important Links

Google – DMCA
Copyright infringement by an AdSense publisher
US Copyright Office

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