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Originally Posted by bockereyer
Maybe this is a little bit off topic but there should be an easy way to prove your ownership to the SE's. I'm thinking about something like a XML-sitemap with an electronic ID. The first one who registers the article is the owner, simple, like registering a patent. SE's then can put your URL in the index as original content and the rest wherever they want to.
I have another question. If you submit an article to a distribution site aren't they obliged to put a link to the original content on your own website, if there is one of course?
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Too much work, still wouldn't be perfect.
The easiest way is just monitor your site for content thefts and either send it to your lawyer or your web host... it doesn't take long with either.
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Originally Posted by seo4china
I would definitely agree with that. We have had many clients who have seen their sites copied by competitors (this is very common here in China), which in most cases put the content on older domains with PR2~4. When your site is new, there is just no chance for you to outrank the thieves. Reporting to Google doesn't help. I believe the same thing would happen with articles as well, unless you do a rewriting as someone said earlier.
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Rewriting doesn't help, not the way most of you do it. Change a few words and the article is still 80-90% the same.
Reporting to google doesn't work because millions of pages are copied, they can't resolve all your problems for you. It is foolish to believe they can. Hire a lawyer or hire someone who has done alot of work with online copy theft. Get them to deal with it for you.