How to prevent content theft : Blogging Secrets

How to punish them?
You take hours to write an article, after days of research and months of learning writing skill. But Someone out there may take all the benefit and credit.
Watch out for content thief !!

Next to click fraud , the problem of content theft is blooming and has been a headache of webmasters and writers on the internet. It takes a big effort to write , but just a click or two to copy and steal the content. “Ctr + C” “Ctr+ V” called Copy and paste.

Content theft is very hard to deal with or to stop. But there are ways be can fight back and even take back our credit for writings and articles.

What to do if someone has stolen your content?

If its your original article it is your right to ask that author to delete the post. Tell him about the copyright and ask him to remove the content or you will take necessary action. Action implies- Reporting the webhost to reporting to google to blacklist the site for the crime. But it is not as easy to take action. Lot easier if the ‘Threat’ works.

How to Report Content Theft?

You spend a lot of time and effort writing posts in your blog. May be you have placed a copyright information, terms of service, copyscape banner, copygator banner and whatsoever but you know that you are totally helpless against plagiarism. You can't protect your content from being copied by others. And now with the increasing number of spam auto-blogs its not surprising to find your whole website under different domain name. Like the god loves his creatures, you love your creations.

Lets come to the point. How do you punish such sites?

Lately I found out that almost every content including the pictures from one of my blogs had been copied by a spam blog under a category. That particular spam blog had 10-15 daily posts with different articles from blogs of different niche. So, I decided to inform the owner of that blog about the copyright policy asking him to remove all the posts copied from my blog. Even after a week, neither did he reply me neither did he bother to remove those posts. Then I came down to threatening him saying that I shall report his website to google, google adsense and his webhosting. This method had worked several times before but not this time.