If you’ve ever sat down for hours or days to Create Original Content, you would understand how painful it is for your content to spread across blogs without your permission. It is time to Report Bloggers.
In the world of blogging, there are bloggers and as well “copy bloggers“. Bloggers spend hours writing posts that add value while copy bloggers duplicate them within minutes without reference.
Since I started flashlearners.com, I have noticed a whole lot of bloggers copy my content back to back. I actually thought they would change until I began to see the replica of my blog across the internet.
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Many bloggers just wait for you to create content while they copy. The most annoying thing is that they would copy the content to their blog and share big forums, thereby getting traffic from the articles. Some even outranked original owners of the post in Search engines.
The good news is that you can shut down any blog copying your posts from existence. There are many ways to report stolen content; I will list three of them and fully explain the one you should try.
Ways To Report Content Theft
- DMCA Take Down
- Hosting Take Down
- Google Webmaster Copyright Removal Notice
- Contacting offender directly
The first two methods can take down the person’s blog. The person you reported would lose traffic and have to start over. This is the next step I would take when am done with number three and any stupid blogger is still found wanting.
Webmaster Copyright Removal
- Visit the Google webmaster copyright removal page using this link
- Enter your contact information
- Under “Identify and describe the copyrighted work”, copy any paragraph from your post that matches with the copied content
- Where can we see an authorized example of the work? Provide URL(s) where an example of the copyrighted work can be viewed. This will be used by our team to verify that the work appears on the pages you are asking us to remove.
- Location of infringing material: Provide the URL(s) of the allegedly infringing material that you are asking us to remove.
- Under the sworn statement, tick the three checkboxes.
- Enter your date and name as your signature
- Fill in the captcha.
- Click on Submit
- Done.
That’s all… You have successfully reported the URL to Google and the copier will be dealt with.
I hope you found this article helpful? Feel free to share and don’t fail to let me know how you feel using the comment box.
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Akemim says
It’s surprising to see eduinformant.com.ng on your list, can you provide me with links of the contents copied from your site?….
This is the very first time of visiting your site, as I got to know about this post from a friend…
Mr Solution says
Bro, ur site get quality content. My site is actually for runs but I post some of ur content just to impact knowledge to my visitors so that they will not rely on expo.
Isaac Inegbenehi says
Then why not link bank or give reference instead of taking credit?
Dolapo says
Honestly. This post got me laughing. I used to write back then on Nairaland around 2014 and I didn’t know much about blogging.
I decided to open my Blog (Www.My9jaedu.com) this year after several research. I now went back to search online those stuffs I have been writing back then. To my greatest surprise, many bloggers have copied those things. Its painful tho.
Copying starts in the class, you should know how to copy with brain, edit and use your own words.
Isaac, well done bro. Keep up the good work. I just hope they won’t copy this comment too. Lol.
Isaac Inegbenehi says
Lol…. it’s very possible bro
prince says
Bro please I have pleaded to u
please don’t do something to my website
I plead bro
God bless you
@Educluesonline
BEN10 says
Lolz. Some bloggers can copy for Africa. Copying schools news is not bad cos you can’t change the information. But copying other contents created by somebody word for word per se is not encouraged. Even if you want to copy, you have to read the content and atleast understand it and be able to out it down in your own words, that one is different.
Isaac Inegbenehi says
Nice contribution boss
Adekoya says
I will give you a simple tips on how to steal their readers always include your site name in between post make it appear like 5 times on your post. Like flashlearners or flashlearners*com make sure it don’t appear like a link. Copy cart bloggers don’t read so they copy and dump. And move on lol.
There was a day naijaloaded copy my tech news and past on his blog..honestly that week alone my traffic tripled.
Isaac Inegbenehi says
Nice tip… You are there bro
Adekoya says
All bloggers are the same, you will find post utme information of schools on different websites… Same information, even here too I have found some but now I observed you now write your self
Isaac Inegbenehi says
1. All bloggers are not the same..
2. Copying posts on school news or admission is not bad…. At least, you can’t do much to change the news. The news follows same pattern and from common source.
3. The issue is copying Unique or tutorial content someone spends days to create without giving credit. Hope you understand?
Law P says
This is true
Naijaactive says
it done have taken it down
Soneye Saheed says
It is really painful when people copy your contents, especially when they outrank you in Google search engine.
The start getting traffic for what they have not worked for while the real owner gets less traffic.
I have been implementing this method to take down copybloggers that copy and paste contents from my blog