What to do when someone steals your content in your blog

Having your content scraped are common problems if you’re a webmaster, the best defense against this is of course to get your content be protected. Just like the old saying, “An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure” so keep your defenses up before it’s too late.  I’ve posted a good article about how you can protect your pages and earn traffic from it. It’s a way of getting an attribution link from your work in case they copy your content does you earn traffic from their scrapping activity.  You can also track the perpetrator who copied your content. The next thing you’ll do is to get a copyright, you can check again for this article on how you can get a digital fingerprint and a copyright of your site. This will be your proof that you are the true owner of your site and the content he/she copied really belongs to you.

Dealing with content thieves once you set up the defenses is much easier now. Here’s what you have to do if someone stole your content and they published it one their site.

1. Get their contact details (cellphone #, email, address, facebook, twitter,etc)
2. Send him/her a letter to remove the content in their blog. They usually remove the content right away once you contacted the webmaster.
3. If he or she didn’t remove  your content tell the one responsible that you have proof that you own it. If she still didn’t do it proceed to the next step
4. Contact the advertisers in his site (adsense,chitika) tell the advertisers and ask for a ban. You have a proof that you own the content so you’ve got no problem
5. You can also contact search engines and the hosting company(if existing) about content thieves. Ask for a ban to the one responsible of stealing your work.
6. Wait and relax…