How to complain about copyright theft and stop it

[ClaireH-184886]

Hi, getting really fed up now. we have for years had nothing but trouble with people stealing our content. I have checked this morning and have spent the last three hours contacting sites of the theft of our content. This is now happening on a weekly basis where i am spending hours contacting website owners.

can anyone please let me know how i complain to google and how can i stop this theft from happening

[ClaireH-184886]

thanks for this, we have tried re-writing the articles but we would be spending our life time doing this. every week we are spending hours contacting people over copyright theft. it is getting beyond a joke.

[KarlBantleman]

Unfortunately this is a problem that many people have. Sometimes the best thing to do is to simply rewrite your content. I know it seems the wrong thing to do because why should you have to rewrite yours but its often the easiest thing to do. The websites with your content on will be getting penalised for copying yours not the other way around as Google will realise that your website is the authority on this.

However, you can visit https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-notice?pli=1 and file a DMCA complaint to Google. Also, have a read through this post http://blog.kissmetrics.com/keep-content-thieves-away/ as well, if you haven't already sorted out your rel=author tags then this will help you.

Good luck!

[ClaireH-184886]

i use that to help check for content theft

[Houses]

Copyscape may help http://www.copyscape.com/