Plagiarism - What can I do - I am so annoyed!

[vicdigi]

I checked some of the articles I wrote today on copyscape and found that our article at One Way Linking Methods and How To Get Text Links One Way has been plagiarised by Tihomir Nakov at his blog amongst other websites where he he places articles under his name.

I have left a response on his website and sent him an email and also contacted Blog Directory, Submit blog - TopBlogArea.com.

Does anyone know what I can really do. What is the greatest penalty that can be imposed.

Although it comes as a complement, damn, I so p*ss*d off and want to take action hard.


I wonder how much of the content on his website was even written by him.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

try this information here, it is from my blog. In reality if these sites are based in eastern Europe then forget rying to get it removed as they refuse to play by the rules over there.

Old Welsh Guy The Google Expert » Beating the Content Thieves - stolen website content

 

[vicdigi]

Thanks OWG.

I've contacted his hosting company in the US yester evening who are now helping deal with this under a DMCA Notice.

The info at your blog really helps and particularly one thing that I have been searching found on your blog is Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

I am considering contacting Google because this guy is using Google ads around our content and making money off of it.

With all the hoohaa about links, buying, selling etc how do you think Google will look at our site if I report him? I mean hey, we sell advertising not links!

 

[OldWelshGuy]

The saying, people in glass houses should not throw stones can apply. If you are selling advertising then google expect you to nofollow links. If you are not doing this then as far as they are concerned you are selling link juice.

Just be carefull. I OWULD though contact google so they can remove the content from their index. I would also contact the article sites asking them to remove the article or else you will file a DMCA request for removal with google and this could well result in harming the sites trust ranking in google.

 

[vicdigi]

Tricky that one with Google! A very good point though and very well made.

Contacted the articel websites and the pliagariser himself....

Guess I got to wait and see what the outcome will now be.

 

[OldDarkstarAccount]

In reality if these sites are based in eastern Europe then forget rying to get it removed as they refuse to play by the rules over there.

ummm...so I don't play by the rules ?

 

[vicdigi]

Problem resolved, the chap removed the content from his site.

Thanks OWG.