Companies Copy Content with links

[onlinemediadirect]

One of our customers has been getting a whole bunch of really relevant links recently as many of his competitors are actually going to his site copying the text from his page and forgetting to remove the links that are within the text.

Its amazing we have links from major UK providers of his products totally for free.

This is where linking to the actual page itself is coming into play and we are gaining good back links.

Has anyone else experienced this before ?

[EGOL]

I get a few links from people who manually grab my content and repost it.  But most of the links that I get this way are from sites that I suspect are built from robots crawling the web, grabbing content and mashing it up into a website.

I would honestly don't like getting links this way because the content that they grab and republish is more valuable than the links that I get back.

If your site is less powerful than the sites that are republishing your content then they could outrank you in the search engines and then they would receive the links earned by your content.  Also, if those sites have more traffic than your site they could get links from visitors that you would prefer to see going to your own website.

[onlinemediadirect]

Dont take this the wrong way EGOL but isnt that a very negative way of looking at this situation ?

[EGOL]

lol...   I understand what you are saying.

My ideas on this subject are different from most.

I am really stingy with my content and not ready to part with it for a few links.  I want my site to be the only location on the web where the article exists and then any links that it collects will be directly to my site.

[onlinemediadirect]

I hear what your saying EGOL  your point of view is from the content writer.