I consider myself a pretty terrible writer so I find it ironic that other web sites are stealing my content.
This time it is ClarkCountyRentals.com. I just tried to call them but no one answered. So I left a message saying if the content is not down in one week (12/7/07) I will file a DMCA with their hosting company.
This time I am going to show a screen shot because they didn’t even try to hide it. This time it is worse than when Rentals.com stole my content. Every single line on their Las Vegas page is mine, which is odd since they are from Vegas and I am sure they know the city better than I do.
To see the screen capture bigger and clearer, just click on it.
Update 12/1/07: I just went to the ClarkCountyRentals.com web page in question and it appears they are in the process of taking it down. ClarkCountyRentals if you are reading this, thanks for taking it down so fast.
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Dave,
This same website took my slogans, and a lot of my content as well.
I reported them to everyone possible, Nothing happened, I then emailed the guy and warned him of the action I would take on his “server” if he did not take it down.
He has a Jacksonville site as well…He had my stolen content on a plugin page for agent.net website….so I notified them and they killed the link.
Send me the links he has of your stuff. Because he may had done the same thing. Google removed that site from index as well as Yahoo. I have not looked lately..
And there is another website who took the content from a whole page of my site. And they are a “National” website. I also have reported them to Google several times and other search engines.
Wanna know who is taking your content?
type in your website name here.
http://www.copyscape.com
report them here:
http://www.google.com/dmca.html
and here:
http://www.chillingeffects.org/
But I hit them were it hurts….there hosting company, google , msn, yahoo. etc..
Good luck Dave, I will help you if you like. Just let me know.
The unfortunate thing is this is going to become more and more common as people know that they need “content” to get up the rankings, but don’t want to write it themselves.
I just tryed to call them myself. But no answer.
It is unfortunate.
They are taking a big gamble by doing this. They could easily get their AdSense account terminated or worse have their site taken down.
I have heard rumors that this is not the first time they have done this.
The problem with that is Search engines see duplicate content. Does not seem they give credit for the content.
Especially if you make the search engines aware they have your content.
Yes, They actually took the pages down, there gone, But I still see sniplets on the there site on my content.
I sent letters to every search engine company, There hosting company, And some others….He seemed to ignore all of it until he got my email. I gave him fair warning to take it down.
If I remember right it is not a guy that runs the site it’s a women. I can’t remember her name, I will see if I can find it.
If she has been doing this for a long time (which it sounds like) how come Google has not shut down her AdSense account and kicked her out of the index?
By the way, pretty terribly writing (your words) is better than not writing anything at all, and much better than plain stealing content from other sites
Thanks anonymous, my wife is an amazing writer but I can never get her to write for my site at all. She should be doing the writing for this site.
Thanks, I am glad you like to read this blog.
Yes, Her name is Krystal.
The person who replied to me was male. And he seemed kinda mad at me for whatever reason. I don’t have the email but I rememeber his first reply back to me was.
“Tell me what is yours and leave our site alone.”
Wow, he got mad at you! I guess he got mad because you might have the power to have them shut down.
That is right I remember someone saying her name was Krystal.
I found this on Google’s site:
It sounds like you have to tell Google several times before they take action.
I have told them before. I will do it again…you do it..Maybe they will do something?
I can’t believe how many sites have been victim to this from Clark County Rentals and Google has not taken action yet.
Google doesn’t seem to care at all about this stuff. Or, they care, but in the opposite way they should, because they make tons of money from MFA sites using stolen content. In other words, they make money off content theft, and seem quite comfortable with that.