Thread: Web content theft

That is a very nice tool that I use alot. It is not however 100% accurate. There are a few other tools that I have when checking to see if any other real estate agent has taken my content or graphics. I will get those posted soon.

Google Images is always a useful place to check for image thieves

I have had a few pictures I took and comments I made on bands that I saw, copied onto their web sites. The pictures were non-professional quality and the comments were clumbsy at best. So I was just happy to see that somebody had been to my site and liked some of the content!

As I get better at both I will be more concerned about it. Thanks for the links to resource tools to help in this matter.

Originally Posted by Jade456

If it hasn't happened to you yet, its only due to your site not being ranked high enough in the serps. Ours has had content taken several times. The easiest way to check is using www.copyscape.com If anyone else has any similar tools, please post them!

Really neat tool jade456.

Interesting results.

Thanks for sharing,

~VegasMack

It helps.

~VegasMack

Originally Posted by sward

yeah I use that tool also very helpful! Can't you block your pics from getting stolen at least by the syders by adding your folder to the Robot.txt?
sward

You can also just login to a website and right click on the photo and copy and paste or if the webmaster has the no right click enabled then all you have to do is left click hold it down and scan across the photo and go copy it to a folder. My point being if someone wants to steal your real estate photos there isnt much that can be done unless you catch them. IMHO

Funny you guys are on this topic. There is a real bad case of copying a webmasters sites playing itself out on another forum right now.

In real estate this is a big problem. It takes a lot of time out of your day to deal with people that want to copy your content and design. I persoanlly suggest that one other route you can take if it is a real estate agent is to contact their broker. Some brokers will do something if they know what can happen once you file a complaint with their host and also with their Realtor association if that person is a Realtor and bound by the code of ethics.

It has happened to all of us, several times at least. The last time it was an indian company that a local realtor hired that basically stole half of my home and one entire page. In that case, they had no idea and had the content removed immediately. You can't understand how infuriating it can be until it happens to you----especially when the perpetrator thinks its no big deal. All of the top sites listed in our market have had this happen, and if you surveyed other areas I'm sure it would be the same there as well.