Keep Ethics in Mind When Using or Sharing Others' Articles

If a competing blog reposts your content, is means that you are doing something right; unscrupulous webmasters usually don't steal poorly written content that has no value. It is outright theft if they take your content and either put their name on it as the author or don't put down any author's name, but what if they give you credit? Ideally, a well-respected and highly ranked blog would use a sentence or two as a quote and give you credit with a do follow backlink. This is the right way to use content, but you rarely see anyone do this. Some webmasters to blatantly steal and hope that the original poster does not notice. This is copyright infringement; once you write a post or take a picture, you automatically have a copyright on the content. It's not okay if someone takes your post and puts in word-for-word on their own blog, using a no follow link to your blog and gives you credit, unless they have your express permission to do so. If you had given permission, you should have asked for at least one do follow backlink to your own blog. If someone is stealing your content, write the webmaster and ask them to take it down within a certain time. If the time passes and the content is still up, file a DMCA takedown notice with Google for each stolen piece of content. Some bloggers believe that theft with attribution, but a no follow link, is somehow good for long-term to their website, but it is pretty much worthless. The only way that it can be beneficial to you is if your analytics show that you receive significant traffic from the offending website via the link. The ethical way to inform your readers about someone else's content that would interest them is to write a paragraph about the article and then link to it with a do follow link. You have original content and you've given the person that worked hard on the content the backlink that they deserve. For more information click here https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/9heayt/twoblogsareusingmycontentwonderifits_bad/.