Has anyone heard of www.bloggen.be

[ClaireH-184886]

Hi, i am a bit confused, it seems that my content and my google ads are going onto this site www.bloggen.be which is a foreign site, google is asking if i want to authorize my ads to be shown on this site which i have said no, but what i am worried about is, if they are stealing my content or displaying it in some way with  my google adsense

Can anyone let me know if this has happened to them and how i can find out if they are taking any of my content

[Cyrus-Shepard]

Hi Tim,

The first step is to determine if your content has been reproduced without your permission. The easiest way to do this is to simply search Google. Take a unique part of your content - a sentence of two, and wrap it in quotes for an exact match search, like this:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q="No+one+wants+to+work+with+someone+who’s+boring%2C+or+messy%2C+or+an+a-hole."&pws=0&gl=us

You can also limit your search to a particular site with the site: operator. Dr. Pete has a good article about it.

Or you can use one of several tools like Copyscape.

To be honest, sites steal and scrape content all the time. Most of the time it isn't a problem, but occassionaly you may find folks misrepresenting you, profiting from your content or hurting your rankings. If this is the case, you should work to have the content removed. This can range from a simple letter to the webmaster to an official DMCA takedown notice, although it rarely comes to this.

Hope this helps! Best of luck.