Comments on: Helpful Links If Your Content Has Been Stolen

By: uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:43:18 +0000

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By: sueadler

sueadler — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:47:10 +0000

Just checked and he already had it removed. As I suspected, he had hired his web people to write the content for him. AND suprise, suprise…. that person is no longer working for the company. But MY photos are still showing up under his url in google, not mine. Anyone have recommendations on how that can be rectified?

By: Trace

Trace — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:02:02 +0000

Having your content stolen sucks, especially when you send a DMCA takedown notice, get a letter back from the webhost's legal department confirming they are going to take it down and yet they never do....the question then becomes, how big of a retainer check am I willing to write to fix this. yuck.

Just to clarify on the duplicate content penalty component, there are many of legitimate uses for duplicate content, or as it is also sometimes know as: syndication. So while there are lots of reasons to go after folks stealing your content, I wouldn't consider a Google dupe content penalty to be one of them.

The dupe content article referenced in the article is about 4 years old which is about 35 years old in SEO years, so this one from Google might help a little more, it's only 10 years old in SEO years: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008...

By: Jim Duncan

Jim Duncan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:32:19 +0000

If you're a Realtor, I'd encourage you to file a Code of Ethics complaint. Maybe Article 12?

"REALTORS® shall be honest and truthful in their real estate communications and shall present a true picture in their advertising, marketing, and other representations."

I've fought sploggers and I've fought thieves. Lorelle's post was the starting point for me several times.

By: sueadler

sueadler — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:47:10 +0000

By: Trace

Trace — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:02:02 +0000

By: Jim Duncan

Jim Duncan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:32:19 +0000

By: sueadler

sueadler — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:41:02 +0000

Thanks Buddy! The reason I sounded so non chalant is because I've had this happen probably 10??? times before, and each time was someone who hired someone else to do their conetnt. I use www.copyscape.com and get emails when my content is copied. In this case, however, I googled millburn deli, since I just did a blog post on it, and saw my millburn deli pic w/ a different website, and clicked. Then I saw my entire town page with all MY pics and content on my competitor's site. WOW. I first wrote a not so nice email, then deleted it, figuring I should give him the benefit of the doubt, since I'm iin a transaction with him right now and seriously, cant imagine he knows about this. I did send him an email though telling him I want it removed right away. Anyway, thanks for looking out for me. Stay tuned...