Learn the way to seek out it and report plagiarism to Google’s authorized staff
I’ve not too long ago been discovering copies of my work blatantly reproduced on different internet sites which I wrote about in these two blogs:
If you wish to discover out if one of many above websites is copying your individual content material, you can begin with a common seek for copyrighted content material from medium in Google like this:
medium website:levitrares.com
Straight away you possibly can see the levitrares [.] com is copying all the medium website. No matter they’re doing by copying content material this manner appears to be harming Google search engine rankings, to not point out they’re illegally copying copyrighted materials, presuming Medium will not be copying and reposting their very own website.
In case you proceed personal the checklist and onto the second web page you possibly can see that this website is mainly copying lots of people’s blogs:
You probably have one thing distinctive in your weblog posts you possibly can add it to the question to attempt to slender down and discover your stolen content material. My final title is fairly distinctive so I can search on:
radichel medium website:levitrares.com
I can see the this website is copying the principle hyperlink to my weblog under:
Click on on the three dots subsequent to the URL and also you get a popup like this so that you don’t have to go to the web page. Copy the URL.
Now report that URL to Google’s authorized staff utilizing this hyperlink together with a hyperlink to your precise weblog with a copyright on the backside.
If you wish to discover out in case your blogs are on websites apart from levitrares you possibly can seek for one thing like this the place a touch signifies you need to exclude medium. Select different key phrases that uniquely determine your weblog.
radichel medium cloud safety -site:medium.com
On this search I observed that my weblog was listed as probably the greatest safety blogs to observe. That’s fairly cool:
Apparently, Medium wouldn’t let me publish this weblog with a hyperlink to that website. I’m not positive why and possibly you shouldn’t go to it however if you wish to use this search in Google:
100 Finest Cyber Safety Blogs and Web sites website:feedspot.com
Nonetheless proper after that I discovered one other URL sabotaging my website which I’ll report. I’ve written about this website earlier than:
Listed below are two extra that look presumably suspicious (they could be okay). I occur to know that some malicious content material comes out of Malaysia so I’ll keep away from clicking that hyperlink and customarily others if I can use an alternate method to verify stolen content material. Maybe the wayback machine or I can open them in a cloud VM.
I suppose I’m on a who’s who checklist. Appears cool however I didn’t click on the hyperlink.
Discovered my ebook on the market on a website within the Netherlands. Cool. I hope that it’s a official website.
Looking out on attackfeed I see that pages are nonetheless within the index that I already reported. Need to see what I can do about that.
A number of different issues however I finished at about web page 5 and that’s just about all I noticed. I’ve already reported about 10 URLs and Google promptly eliminated most of them.
Good luck looking your individual stolen content material and getting it taken down. I actually hope this helps others discover and report plagiarism.
Teri Radichel
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