Easy way to gain backlinks for content sites

[goodroi]

We all know that Google likes websites with solid backlinks. So if you have a bunch of good content, it is likely another site has stolen some of that good content. I like to reach out to them with a nice but firm email saying they can keep the content if they add a backlink to my site. When facing a possible copyright infringement lawsuit, websites tend to be very happy to give me backlinks to resolve the situation. I usually don't even need to worry about duplicate content because I regularly revise my content to keep it fresh & accurate.

What other ways do you use to gain backlinks and/or deal with stolen content?

[NickMNS]

@goodroi how do you find the sites that copy you?

[bwnbwn]

copyscape is a start Nick

[NickMNS]

@bwnbwn I tried it out, it didn't find anything.

[keyplyr]

@NickMNS - Some sites block copyscape.

I've found plagiarized & outright scraped content by just cut'n pasting phrases from my articles and doing web searches. I even tried translators but that became too much work.

[EditorialGuy]

Wouldn't it make sense to demand a rel="canonical" statement, too?

[aristotle]

People at wikipedia are supposed to give you a link (nofollow) when they copy information from your site.

But even if they do give you a link, eventually somebody else will delete it.

[goodroi]

I find content copiers using copyscape, and/or doing manual google searches, and/or reverse image tools. Some people steal my content and don't even bother to copy the images so I can look at who is hotlinking my images. I am happy when someone in my industry takes my content because most of the time I get many backlinks. I get a link from the original stolen content and then offer them guest articles (with embedded links of course) which they happily accept.

[keyplyr]

Different things work for different sites. My articles are basically excerpts from my books, so aside from a fair use sentence or two with citation & a linkback, I consider everything else copyright infringement which sets in motion appropriate action.