If you’re like me, you work hard strategizing what quality content will educate and inform your target audience on certain topics while promoting your expertise. You might have written an article yourself or paid a professional copywriter to write something fantastic, right? It’s time consuming and costly to create quality content. I feel your frustration. It’s high maintenance to track down these people who need content to make some cash on the side with advertising.

Who are these Copy Thieves?

You can try Yahoo, MSN, or Google and conduct a search using your article title. Then visit each site to make sure you are properly credited for your content.

Google Alerts (www.google.com/alerts) – Type in the title of your article with quotes for an exact match, then enter your email address to be alerted with relevant Google search results based on your search terms.

Copyscape (www.copyscape.com) – Insert your URL and their service scans the web for similar copy.

How to Fight Back Online Plagiarists

I would like to point to two great resources on this topic:

SubHub Publish For Profits article, “Stop Thief How You Can Fight Back Against Online Plagiarism”

Lorelle on Wordpress article, “What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content”