A friend of mine, Sam Mcarthur - who runs Forty First search marketing, passed me this link filled with info...

Blog Articles Being Stolen - High Rankings Search Engine Optimization Forum

and this...

SEOmoz | Four Ways to Enforce Your Copyright: What to Do When Your Online Content Is Being Stolen

Thought getting a blogspot blog would alleviate doing the more technical stuff; any non-technical solutions to this gratefully appreciated - time is a real issue; just want to post regularly, occasionally link-building etc as I go.

The SEO lead at Fuse has pointed out the apparent Google updating underway (and some re-ranking that's happening) at present. Maybe it's algorithmic and will settle down in a few days or when the blog is next indexed. (Out of interest, can I request a re-indexing to be done (quickly)?)

Thanks for pointers so far, hope this is also useful to you all too.

- mark.