Business Website Content Theft: 3 Myths
Joel Walsh
Myth 1. Web Content Theft & Other Internet Copyright Violations
Are Hard to Pursue.
At least for written content, search engines make internet
copyright violations easier to find and pursue than violations
in print.
It is very easy to take injunctive action against a copyright
violator; it would be a waste of money in most cases to go to
an attorney. Simply file a DMCA complaint with Google, Yahoo,
MSN, other search engines, any advertising programs of which
the site is a part, and/or the site's host. I just filed a
complaint with Yahoo the other day. They responded within two
days.
Myth 2. Search Engines Inflict a Duplicate Content Penalty on
Content Theft Victims.
There is no duplicate content penalty in major search engines
for work that is duplicated across different sites; only for
content that is duplicated across the same site. If there were
a duplicate content penalty for content shared across websites,
distributing content to other sites would not be such a popular
website promotion tactic. Do a search on "Secrets of Writing a
Business Website Homepage," on of my articles, and you'll see
it on hundreds of websites--none of them delisted.
Myth 3. Web Content Theft Completely Destroys Your Site's Value
to Web Surfers.
Web content theft erodes the links of trust that make up the
web. But it won't completely destroy your site. The web is so
vast that even having your content on hundreds of sites does
not mean that people will find your site unoriginal and not
worth visiting. Just look at how much of any newspaper is
"duplicate content" in the form of AP feeds.
In short, web content theft is bad, but it's not the end of the
web--that is, unless people let it be.
About The Author: Joel Walsh is a website content writer:
http://UpMarketContent.com
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