What To Do If Your Article Marketing Work Is Stolen

Written by Shelli Walsh Thursday, 12 May 2011 08:32

With the rise of article marketing and article submission directories it has become easier than ever for copyright infringement and online plagiarism. It's a horrible feeling to see your carefully crafted piece of work which took you hours to write appear on a website with no accreditation to yourself. Even worse if it's an article marketing competitor who is trying to promote themselves with your content. There are ways to have websites removed and to regain control of your original content. Don't try and take underhand revenge by attacking the website or making public slurs against the site owners on social media as this just makes you look bad and can have negative consequences.

With the rise of article marketing and article submission directories it has become easier than ever for copyright infringement and online plagiarism. It's a horrible feeling to see your carefully crafted piece of work which took you hours to write appear on a website with no accreditation to yourself. Even worse if it's an article marketing competitor who is trying to promote themselves with your content. There are ways to have websites removed and to regain control of your original content. Don't try and take underhand revenge by attacking the website or making public slurs against the site owners on social media as this just makes you look bad and can have negative consequences.

You can contact the website and ask them reasonably to remove the content, provide a full accreditation to you or ask for financial recompense for using the article. Use google to find online tools such as whois to search for the domain registered owner. Collect the name and address and the web hosting company as this can be useful. The website may have contact details on it or a contact us form. Use as many means possible to contact the offender to ensure you reach them.

There are a few ways to deal with having your content stolen, it doesn't simply have to be a case of having the article removed from the offending website. You are within your rights to ask for article marketing payment as a license fee for using the article or you may prefer a link back to your site with a full credit including your name. There are benefits to each approach depending on the circumstances so take time before you make contact to think what you want.

Online copyright protection was introduced with the DMCA and if you make a complaint to the company, that hosts the website with your content on it, they have to take this seriously. The host will have a policy and procedure process to deal with this situation and you could get a result by getting their account suspended.

A google DMCA complaint is one of the best approaches for a result in having the page with plagiarised content removed from the search engine. Google has a very easy to follow process which can be completed in ten minutes in their website. Type Google DMCA complaint in the search engine and you will get a link of where to start.

There is a moral obligation when using a DMCA complaint with search engines and it should never be used as a black hat technique of getting competitors banned from listings. Google or Yahoo rarely offer the accused chance to defend the accusation so you must be sure you are within your rights as full owner of the original copyright. Act with integrity.