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Quick question, hoping to get a few responses about it...
I'm currently developing a site in a somewhat small market, fairly undertargetted. Before starting content on my site, I went around to the top SERP sites on the subject to see what they were doing to get there, and how I could improve upon it. One of the top sites (probably the top site) in the niche (easily pulling in 1-1.5M page views/day according to Alexa) is an abomination of plagarized pages.
Each of our sites is entirely content, basically a "how to build widgets" type of thing. The sites break it down further though, i.e. "How to build red widgets", "How to build green widgets", etc...about 25 different categories on his site (I'm aiming to cover twice that). When you visit his site, it's grossly obvious that it's not original content. Furthermore, a simple google search (I just tried Copyscape for the first time, also rather apparent on there what he did) shows that every single page of content on his site is a direct copy/paste from other sources.
Despite the fact that his site is completely built upon the work of others, this guy is bringing in traffic I could only dream of, serving Adsense ads (among other programs), and it probably took a few hours of work, tops.
Is there anything at all I can do? Would it not be right to attempt to contact the original writers of all his content and let them know where it was appearing? Should I just scrap the idea of trying to make a helpful, informative, original site..and just copy work like he did and profit from it?
It's incredibly frustrating to see something like this when I'm staring at at least 80-100 hours of work to get all my content written originally.
Thanks in advance for any replies.
IF you are as bugged as I would be, assuming I got scraped / plagiarized, consider the following:
Use Copyscape to find the original sources of the stolen materials.
Email each victimized webmaster showing what you found.
Be sure to put in links to their materials, and URLs to the precise pages that scraped them.
Make it easy as possible for the victims to see what's been going on.
You could include email addresses of other victims so they can compare notes.
If they don't care, that's that.
Otherwise, things might happen without any further labor on your part. -Larry
I'd make a nice useful site.
Register copyright BEFORE your work goes live, so you have an ironclad claim.
Let him scrape my site.
Get a lawyer and sue him for statutory damages. Make it a nice large sum. When you win, offer to settle for his domain name and a reduced dollar amount ...
Leva
Sinking his site now would be useless to you.
