What To Do When Some One Steals Your Blog

So you've created that great blog you wanted and now you have visitors and may even be making some money. Now you find out that not only do your visitors enjoy your blog, but so do the thieves. There is something called "splog", meaning spam blog and they have taken it to a whole new level. For instance take a look at what happened to Malik over at gigaom.com. Now they no longer steal a story or a few snippets from your blog, they steal the entire thing. A few weeks ago a free blog hosting website was steaming mad as a new hosting site started up, but looking at both sites they were not just similar, they were virtually the same. Why would people do this? The same old, same old. Money. Not surprising there. With contextual ads and affiliate programs it's never been easier to start up a website or blog and start getting clicks. They are stealing quality content and that's the point. They can't or won't take the time to create good, quality content that will bring in visitors, so they steal from sites that are popular with visitors and rich in content. I do have to shake my head at these idiots. Yes it's easier than ever to make money even with stolen content, but it's just as easy for the original owner of said content to find out, either surfing or having a loyal visitor point out the less than honorable blog. If such a thing ever happens to you, don't dispare. First things first, if they are using contextual ads such as google adsense, run don't walk to their website and report this fraud. Report them to every ad service on their blog and try to find who is their host and report them their as well. If this idiot is determined they might start again, but that's why they are a loser and thief in the first place.