“Client sabbaticals” — I feel your pain. :) Looking forward to it, Kevin!

Thanks Heather

I’ll let you know when I publish that post. The more people that know about, comment on and share it, the clearer it will be that I’m the original source of the content.

I have to keep taking client sabbaticals to work on it. But it should be out in January.

@Kevin, hi!

Wow…just…wow! Sadly, I’m not surprised someone stole your work — you’re a great writer. I AM surprised that a well-known content writing blog uploaded it without confirming it was original content. Ouch. It sounds like you got the stolen content pulled, but not before some damage had been done.

OF COURSE you’re nervous — who wouldn’t be? Especially since it’s happened before. Here’s hoping your next monster blog post isn’t copied, and it sees hundreds of quality comments, shares, and links!

Thanks for posting!

Yep, this has happened to me too.

A geezer took my bonus content download and remarketed it as his own.

He then wrote a guest post based on my own content for a very well known content writing blog.

It was gut wrenching to see 100s of comments flood in – all telling the perpetrator how awesome he was and thanking him for sharing such a great content resource.

Although I was infuriated, I kept my cool and kept to the facts when I contacted the blog in question.

I got the result I wanted. But the whole episode still makes me nervous. This is mainly because I’ve got a new monster blog post coming out soon. And I ain’t gonna be happy if someone just goes ahead and steals something that took me weeks to deliver.

Hello!

Yup, you can use CopyScape — they make it easy. Or you can copy a random sentence from your posts, type it into Google, and see if any other results pop up. That’s the long, slow way to do it…but it works. :)

Thanks!

@Richard — I’m laughing at the site owner not deleting your “you stole my content” comment. How funny!

I think Copyscape (via Copysentry) does what you’re looking for. It’s a little pricey if you go over 10 pages, but it could be worth it for super-important content. Let me know how it goes!