How To Stop Others From Stealing Your Articles
Time and time again I've seen it happening. You submit your articles in article directories and some webmasters grab them and put them on their website. Without giving you credit, without linking back.
Personally I've seen it also happening on my own articles too. So what's the solution if any and what you should know?
First of all who does this "stealing" is non other that newbies. They think their site requires content in most cases and a newbie is like a child. He does not know right from wrong sometimes. I personally used to steal content when I was a newbie as well, without linking back. At the time I did not know why I should link back anyway.
Now I know, and get this, it's them that get negatively effected not you. When they put identical content from somewhere else, in this case your article, the page they put your article on will have a hard time getting indexed most often, because of duplicate content. The page won't get indexed in almost all cases.
Actually if they link back to the source, probably that's going to be better for their rankings.
Put a CopyRight All Rights Reserved. That should get rid of some of them. Don't waste the precious space in the bio, put it just after your article body... neither waste your time trying to find the webmasters who use your articles without linking back and try to contact them one by one.
There's really no other solution here... but I don't see it as a problem anymore, because I know who the thieves are, they do not really wish harm... and the duplicate content works against them.
It's good to mention too that these newbies where they put the articles, the same website will probably be "dead" after some months or a year. The site is probably their first one, nothing of real value, and probably not going to make them any money.
That's why newbies are the ones that steal the content. Webmasters who are not new, know about the duplicate content, they also know how much quality and uniqueness is important. They know they cannot feed the visitor identical articles he finds elsewhere.
So time is precious, your energy too, get rid of this problem, don't let it haunt you. Think of the bigger picture and you realize after all they are not harming you - it's just annoying as hell. Don't say you won't get credit. It's true you won't but then again like I said, we should be optimistic and feel good about those that link back.
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Personally I've seen it also happening on my own articles too. So what's the solution if any and what you should know?
First of all who does this "stealing" is non other that newbies. They think their site requires content in most cases and a newbie is like a child. He does not know right from wrong sometimes. I personally used to steal content when I was a newbie as well, without linking back. At the time I did not know why I should link back anyway.
Now I know, and get this, it's them that get negatively effected not you. When they put identical content from somewhere else, in this case your article, the page they put your article on will have a hard time getting indexed most often, because of duplicate content. The page won't get indexed in almost all cases.
Actually if they link back to the source, probably that's going to be better for their rankings.
Put a CopyRight All Rights Reserved. That should get rid of some of them. Don't waste the precious space in the bio, put it just after your article body... neither waste your time trying to find the webmasters who use your articles without linking back and try to contact them one by one.
There's really no other solution here... but I don't see it as a problem anymore, because I know who the thieves are, they do not really wish harm... and the duplicate content works against them.
It's good to mention too that these newbies where they put the articles, the same website will probably be "dead" after some months or a year. The site is probably their first one, nothing of real value, and probably not going to make them any money.
That's why newbies are the ones that steal the content. Webmasters who are not new, know about the duplicate content, they also know how much quality and uniqueness is important. They know they cannot feed the visitor identical articles he finds elsewhere.
So time is precious, your energy too, get rid of this problem, don't let it haunt you. Think of the bigger picture and you realize after all they are not harming you - it's just annoying as hell. Don't say you won't get credit. It's true you won't but then again like I said, we should be optimistic and feel good about those that link back.
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