Blog Articles Being Stolen Options

[medtour]

Hello Within, few hours of my publishing an article on my web site blog, its being stolen by another blog. The other bog does not have any contact info, looks like its using the stolen material for google adsence adds. They have many articles copied form my site.

What can I do to?
i) have it removed from the site copying
ii) how can I prevent this in future from happening.

I am new startup & don't have the time & resources to get into legal proceedings...

My blog site is WWW(dot)medicaltourismco(dot)com/medical-tourism/

if u put search for 9 Bandster Eating Rules: Gastric Lap Band Diet Recommendations in the google search u will see mine on top, and somewhere on the same page the copied one.

THANKS FOR ALL THE HELP & IDEAD

[1dmf]

well when I put that in on G! I find three entries, all on the last page (no. 4) right at the bottom...

CODE

Medical Tourism Blog » Blog Archive » Hospital Angeles Tijuana ...9 Bandster Eating Rules: Gastric Lap Band Diet Recommendations · Hospital Angeles Tijuana, Mexico – Bariatric Lap Band, Gastric Bypass, ...
www.medicaltourismco.com/.../ - 8 hours ago - Similar pages - Note this

Medical Tourism Blog » Blog Archive » 9 Bandster Eating Rules ...9 Bandster Eating Rules: Gastric Lap Band Diet Recommendations. Below are a list of 9 Lapband diet eating rules to follow. Please note that your surgeon is ...
www.medicaltourismco.com/medical-tourism/9-bandster-eating-rules-gastric-lap-band-diet-recommendations/ - 10 hours ago - Similar pages - Note this

Hoodia Gordonii Plus » 9 Bandster Eating Rules: Gastric Lap Band ...9 Bandster Eating Rules: Gastric Lap Band Diet Recommendations January 17th, 2008 Below are a list of 9 Lapband diet eating rules to follow. ...
hoodiathin.canadaone.org/wp/weight-loss/32454 - 4 hours ago - Similar pages - Note this

[indestructible]

It sounds like your site may be being scraped. I used to work for a major online job board that scraped other boards - displaying their jobs as if it was our own. It is dubious but the directors knew that it was difficult to get around it legally... so continued the practice. If large publicly-traded corporations can't get around this legally - it seems like a lone blogger wouldn't either. This Wikipedia article has some ideas on blocking scrapers technically:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping

I am not very technical myself, so I can't comment on the validity of the methods described. But - I think that you are better to go with technical rather than legal means of blocking the scrapers.

S

This post has been edited by Randy: Jan 18 2008, 01:34 PM

[medtour]

well when I put that in on G! I find three entries, all on the last page (no. 4) right at the bottom...

CODE

Medical Tourism Blog » Blog Archive » Hospital Angeles Tijuana ...9 Bandster Eating Rules: Gastric Lap Band Diet Recommendations · Hospital Angeles Tijuana, Mexico – Bariatric Lap Band, Gastric Bypass, ...
www.medicaltourismco.com/.../ - 8 hours ago - Similar pages - Note this

Medical Tourism Blog » Blog Archive » 9 Bandster Eating Rules ...9 Bandster Eating Rules: Gastric Lap Band Diet Recommendations. Below are a list of 9 Lapband diet eating rules to follow. Please note that your surgeon is ...
www.medicaltourismco.com/medical-tourism/9-bandster-eating-rules-gastric-lap-band-diet-recommendations/ - 10 hours ago - Similar pages - Note this

Hoodia Gordonii Plus » 9 Bandster Eating Rules: Gastric Lap Band ...9 Bandster Eating Rules: Gastric Lap Band Diet Recommendations January 17th, 2008 Below are a list of 9 Lapband diet eating rules to follow. ...
hoodiathin.canadaone.org/wp/weight-loss/32454 - 4 hours ago - Similar pages - Note this

The last one is copied form my site. The first two are mine So What can I do to?

i) have it removed from the site copying (there are others ones copied from me as well)
ii) how can I prevent this in future from happening.

[1dmf]

have you approached them asking them to remove the content?

does the content rerfer to your site, with appropriate credits and hyperlink, so might be doing your site some good?

[Katy]

How are they pulling in the content? Are they scraping it from your RSS feed - if so, put a link back to your website on all of your RSS entries.

Chris Garret recently blogged about this - have a look at http://www.chrisg.com/benefiting-from-blog-scrapers/

[medtour]

have you approached them asking them to remove the content?

does the content rerfer to your site, with appropriate credits and hyperlink, so might be doing your site some good?

There is no way to contact them, I tried their website to find contact info could not. Also, the domain is a subdomain one, not sure how to get a contact

[medtour]

How are they pulling in the content? Are they scraping it from your RSS feed - if so, put a link back to your website on all of your RSS entries.

Chris Garret recently blogged about this - have a look at [snipped]

Hello Katy, you have a great suggestion I will do this , I suspect they are using rss feed to scrap the content.

This post has been edited by Randy: Jan 18 2008, 01:33 PM

[medtour]

There is no way to contact them, I tried their website to find contact info could not. Also, the domain is a subdomain one, not sure how to get a contact

Additionally 1df there is not credit or link to my site by them.

Katy you have a great idea, I will implement that, as I suspect they are scrapping from the blog. Thanks

[rolf]

Good idea Katy. If you're getting some linking benefit and they're not showing up instead of your site then it may be worth leaving it alone.

Alternatively, there are things you can do about this. I had a look into the parent domain and that seems pretty spammy too, but it could be worth writing to them and explaining that someone using a one of their subdomains is doing this and you're not happy about it. They may simply want to avoid any potential for legal action and may just stop it at the first request.

Alternatively (or even as well) you can contact Google citing the DCMA. I don't have any experience with this situation specifically, but as I understand it google will take any DCMA notice seriously and will remove any infringing pages from their index - I would assume the same is true for Yahoo, MSN, etc.

[medtour]

Good idea Katy. If you're getting some linking benefit and they're not showing up instead of your site then it may be worth leaving it alone.

Alternatively, there are things you can do about this. I had a look into the parent domain and that seems pretty spammy too, but it could be worth writing to them and explaining that someone using a one of their subdomains is doing this and you're not happy about it. They may simply want to avoid any potential for legal action and may just stop it at the first request.

Alternatively (or even as well) you can contact Google citing the DCMA. I don't have any experience with this situation specifically, but as I understand it google will take any DCMA notice seriously and will remove any infringing pages from their index - I would assume the same is true for Yahoo, MSN, etc.

thanks rolf for the good tips

[casieg]

There was also an article on SEOMoz by Sarah Bird from esquire a few days ago about stolen content. Discusses some of the things already mentioned.

You can find it here - www.seomoz.org/blog/four-ways-to-enforce-your-copyright-what-to-do-when-your-online-content-is-being-stolen

This post has been edited by Randy: Jan 18 2008, 01:32 PM

Reason for edit: Please see the forum rules regarding live links.

[copywriter]

File a DMCA report with their host and with Google to have it removed.

http://www.google.com/dmca.html

Same form can be used for both.

[Randy]

1. File the DMCA complaint with Google etal as Rolf suggested above.

2. If you cannot find any contact information on the domain or subdomain itself, look up who owns the domain in the Whois records. It'll provide contact information for the domain owner. It's quite possible the domain owner may not even know what's happening on a subdomain, but they should deal with it eitherway. If you need a Whois tool to use, I've got a little one on my personal site that will look up .org's and every other tld known to man.

3. If that doesn't get ya any response go to whoever is hosting the domain. To do this you need to figure out the IP number the site is sitting on. You can get this info one of several ways, the most common being a tracert domain.com from the Windows command prompt. (FYI, the IP in this case is 72.5.54.38) Then file a copyright infringement complaint directly with the host. They generally don't fool around and will simply take the offending site offline since copyright violations are always a part of any hosts TOS.

Look up that IP number in a Whois tool that supports IP lookups (mine above does) to figure out who the host is. In this case it's InterNap, who in my experience are very responsive to abuse and/or copyright infringement complaints.

[medtour]

THANKS EVERYONE!