I was just wondering, reading Elvis last thread, how you find out if content of yours gets stolen - do you google articles from your website frequently?
bhartzer
5:05 pm on Sep 29, 2006 (gmt 0)
Yes, you can take a unique phrase and put it in quotes in search for it. You can also set up a Google alert and they'll email you when they find a new page that contains that phrase...
vincevincevince
5:55 am on Sep 30, 2006 (gmt 0)
I have a short combination of numbers and letters which I have styled to be very very small. I Googled the term originally and it had zero results. I now insert it into the middle of every article and have set up a Google alert for it.
It works reasonably for automated methods but tends to be removed when people 'rewrite' my text.
Purposeinc
6:03 am on Sep 30, 2006 (gmt 0)
Recently just out of curiosity I googled a sentence from my site. I found someone had copied 3/4 of my small niche site word for word. After two e-mails from me and a letter from my attorney, the pages mysteriously disappeared from his site.
I like that idea of a identifier string on every page.
dk
wolfadeus
5:49 pm on Oct 11, 2006 (gmt 0)
The string is indeed a good idea...and with "rewritten" articles it's a different matter, since you normally can't proof your ownership unless there's unique information included; so I guess not knowing about it is the most pragmatic approach and minimizes distress ;)
