All Sports Affiliate Managers - Stolen/Copied Content

[LukeC]

Yea, sadly the archive does NOT upodate like it used to.

I know this makes it tricky, I know Bookieoffers is telling the truth in this case, but to come up with a difinitive answer as to how to guarantee future cases case be proven or disproven is quite a tricky thing indeed.

In cases where the site is a blog that webmasters are dating their publish dates, this will sometimes be an indication.
You can also look at domain creation dates as sometimes this will be an indication....(IE: if a site is only 6 months old and the original content has been up a year, it's a good indicator)

This could end up being an interesting discussion.

I would like to hear more thoughts on this also.

Rick
Universal4

Publication date can easily be changed or claimed to be intentionally falsified. What about any auto postings of the article to an RSS feed / Twitter / Facebook page? Though I'd say the problem here isn't just proving the original publisher's publication date, it's proving that it was not possible that the copier could have posted it before then.

[Roulette Zeitung]

Hello,

content thieves...

Too lazy to think for themselves. Too lazy to write itself. Ethical vacuum packed. No character, no decency and want to reap the seeds of others.

That does not happen by accident. There are no excuses.

Content thieves steal always in bad faith.
No?

Then they are dumber than dirt.



Leopold

[Anthony-Coral]

I'd def be in favour of more frequent action being taken against content thieves by operators and programmes. Acknowledge that the definitive proof can be tricky to find so its likely that previous conduct and reputation of the affiliate would likely play some part.

In all the conversations we have with conscientious, active affiliates, decent original content is always at the top of their list. We've been trying hard lately to provide content ideas, suggestions and press releases etc because we recognise that often original content can be expensive for affiliates to get, either in terms of their time or their money. Only right that we should back this up with some action if affiliates can show us that their hard work has been stolen.

[thebookiesoffers]

just checked and 3 sites have now been pulled and one changed so all 4 sorted now

cheers for all the comments and interest

[Louis - Income Access]

Glad that got sorted.

I did some research and could not find any tools that prove when text content was originally published.

I did find this nifty tool though:
http://www.copyscape.com/

Probably webmaster tools can do the same thing for you... I'm not an expert.

[universal4]

Yea copyscape is a nice tool, the paid version is pretty powerful.

Rick
Universal4

[thebookiesoffers]

Glad that got sorted.

I did some research and could not find any tools that prove when text content was originally published.

I did find this nifty tool though:
http://www.copyscape.com/

Probably webmaster tools can do the same thing for you... I'm not an expert.

copyscape was what i used in the first place, very good tool

[UKCasinoOnline]

Content theft is for weak individuals with no drive to actually write their own stuff, or put their energy into something unique

[TheBoyMitchell]

You dont need to use copyscape. Just put a paragraph or two of your article into Google and see what sites it returns.

[Voids]

Glad to see the activity of the affiliate managers in this thread.

[F-L-C]

c

You dont need to use copyscape. Just put a paragraph or two of your article into Google and see what sites it returns.

Yes Google is much better than Copyscape, I have picked things up using G that Copyscape didn't

[thebookiesoffers]

just found 2 more sites, asked Louis to contact one on a weebly site as get the content pulled, stupid nob (the content thief not Louis) even has copied an exclusive free bet I had with Blue Square with my promo code

[Louis - Income Access]

You should thank him for copying the promo code as that is the kind of info we need to prove that the content is yours. Can you email me some kind of confirmation that this code is yours?

[thebookiesoffers]

You should thank him for copying the promo code as that is the kind of info we need to prove that the content is yours. Can you email me some kind of confirmation that this code is yours?

cheers bud, just emailed and copied you in for my old manager at blue square to confirm all the details as I had deleted the emails

[ocreditor]

Copying content would help the "thieves" but hurt them too.
In my experience, emailing them and asking the content be removed and the practices brought to a stop helps.

[Anthony-Coral]

I've been signed up to updates from Hubspot.com for a while and find a lot of their mailers useful or thought provoking.

Received one today regarding preventing content theft with a slideshare that I thought I'd share with you in case it offers any new ideas...

http://www.slideshare.net/HubSpot/ar...g-your-content

[Louis - Income Access]

I just came over to this thread to post that hubspot article and damn it if hodgey didn't beat me to it!

[Anthony-Coral]

You Snooze, You Lose, Louis D!

[thebookiesoffers]

btw, got this all sorted now but thanks Louis, put a lot of work in on this

also did you get that email I sent today about the other thing mate?

[Louis - Income Access]

Did indeed Aidan, replying now