Kirkin' of the Tartan

**macwilkin** · 14th October 08, 10:35 AM

EDIT: The webmaster has contacted the author, who did use my article as a source. Both were very apologetic and agreed to credit the STM article.

All's well that ends well.

Todd

**JS Sanders** · 14th October 08, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by cajunscot

I have no problems with the gentleman using my article as a source, but it is academic courtesy to credit your sources.

Even more so with websites. When search engines are working and find two sites with closely worded content, the search engine 'decides' which is the authentic website. And they get it wrong regularly.

In Google, the loser is shoved to the bottom of the search pile. It can be so deep no one conducting a search will ever find it. And it's almost as difficult as re-establishing your stolen identity to get your original ranking back. Happened two years ago to me, and it was two months before I was back in the same rankings. No way of knowing how much business was lost.

About twice annually, some ding-a-ling tinker piper copies my website as his own. Happened as recently as two weeks ago. Nothing happened and he quickly removed my intellectual property.

I use www.copyscape.com to prevent this from occuring. Copyscape caught this latest incident. They offer a free service and it is convenient to use.

Unfortunately for those who wish to acknowledge my website content as a source, for the same reasons above, I cannot permit it.

Slainte,
steve