We spent 2 weeks and a few hundred dollars to produce a perfectly translated SEO services page for our Spanish clients... and within 2 weeks a site in Mexico took the content 'word for word' and made it into their 6 page SEO website! I guess we should be honored that we created such a good page, but... I went after him - 1 email direct to the offender (no reply), then the 2nd I copied his ISP. Fortunately the ISP was a legit group and they persued their hosted client - took a week, but finally our content pulled.

We got lucky... using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is a slow drawn out process and he could have just changed the words around too. Always pays to check your log files, if I hadn't seen him coming to our site a dozen times I wouldn't have checked him out and he probably would have beat me and got some good rankings from our content in a few weeks.

You should attack these jerks head-on and usually the ISP can be your best friend in this situation, especially if you can prove your copy being of an older date than the thief's version. Leave the Search Engine's as a last resort.

BIL

P.S. that Spanish translated page is now the most popular and highest ranked page on our site - go figure?

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