Comments on: Protect Your Website – Duplicate Content

By: Diane

Diane — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:18:47 +0000

I just had my web pages copied with my own orig art work
floged by a family member who is developing his own web design
buss.It took mths of learning and research. I did not have a copywrite displayed. but ment to get on to it.
Big lession learned.

By: DropshipBlog

DropshipBlog — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:58:29 +0000

@Matt – It depends, there is nothing wrong with using a short excerpt (maybe a paragraph at max) and clearly stating it is an excerpt with the link back. That’s not stealing it is just using content to help create another publication. But stealing a whole article and then just linking to it at the end is wrong.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:13:59 +0000

What about people who steal content without telling you, but credit your website/provide a backlink somewhere?

By: Sara Martin

Sara Martin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:13:26 +0000

I would like to suggest you to put canonical tags. If you don’t know about canonical tags then just google them or maybe you can watch Matt cutts explaining it’s functionality on youtube. This is really a serious issue and many webmasters have been suffering from content duplication or theft. In addition to your points I would like to say that one can also report infringement to Google. But before that make sure you have any valid evidence that you are the content owner.