How to on: Protecting yourself from article/content thieves.

Due to the recent proliferation of three articles from my site, I have decided to arm my fellow readers with some knowledge on protecting yourself from these un-original pirate scum. First off, copyright your works and content. One by one if you have to or do the whole site at one time.

Here is a great tool that I found on the net that will copyright your works for free and you can actually use it in a court of law. This site allows you to make a copyright of your works and gives you a "digital" fingerprint of your content. Now what this means is this digital fingerprint will have the time and date stamp of your content and your registration date/time with them. Here is the site. http://www.myfreecopyright.com/ It's easy and free to register and easy/free to use.

You can also use this tool to see if any of your articles are on the net. This will detect close copies of your works if there are any articles that it traces on a word for word basis. You can use this free tool here at http://www.copyscape.com/.

If you need a more in depth view about what to do when your articles/content get stolen, you can look at this site here. It serves as a great reference in your step by step recovery of your articles etc. and how and where to report these thieves. I will refer you here...http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum44/2199.htm

Hopefully you will never have to use this last site that I gave you. Protect yourself everytime you publish your article or have a new idea on your site. This will save you a lot of time and hassle. Good luck and watch out for the pirates !!