Marketing_Guy - 2:10 am on Nov 20, 2006 (gmt 0)

Have you distributed the articles in any form (ie to article distribution sites)? In that case you don't have a lot to go on (most of these sites will have the issue covered in the t&c). It's just par for the course that some people use article site content to generate spamsense sites (and kill outbound links in the process).

If they have just lifted content from your site you could try contacting the hosting company, but to be honest as soon as you step out of your own country you face a major pain in the neck (legally).

Depending on what they do with your articles, you could implement some countermeasures to prevent it in the future. If they are passing off the content as their own "information" then simply write all your articles with liberal reference to other articles on your site. Do this to the point that people *need* the links to make full sense of the article. ;) Also, include your site name fairly frequently as well.

Basically just make it too much trouble for them to copy / edit your work so they move onto someone else.

However if they are simply autogenerating a site using your content then all this won't really make much difference because they won't care.

Try to get deep links from other sites to your articles - then at least they won't be the versions that are ditched in the SERPs.

MG