When Your Site is Sticky: Website Content Piracy

Google Alerts is a blessing and a curse. I am delighted when my words enhance the quality of another website and I receive appropriate credit.

I’m furious when my content is plagiarized. I’m frustrated when my original content is used, but my bio is rewritten in broken English and my name is misspelled.

What’s an author to do?

Many of these sites have no contact page. But it’s obvious that most of this content is found on ezinearticles.com.

So I wrote an article, which is now posted on ezinearticles.com, outlining the right way to use someone else’s words on your website.

I am choosing to assume that as the Internet becomes increasingly available around the world, many new website owners simply do not know any better.

Yeah, I know there’s a lot of theft online. The world is made up of all kinds of characters. But I hope that by starting with a “Did you realize?” tone in my article, most of the content duplication errors will be corrected.