03 · 09

Geni - Site of the Week - March 9, 2009

Do you remember when you were in school making those little family trees? Do you remember how fun it was to learn about your family roots? If you are like me, you found this very interesting and wanted to dig deeper and find a place to hold all this family information in an organized way. Well my Site of the Week, Geni, helps you create a very organized and professional looking family tree. The best thing is it is FREE! Geni is very user-friendly and is the best place to start your own family tree. So grab your mouse, keyboard, parents, and grandparents and head on over to Geni and see how many branches of your family tree you can create! ~ Kyle Reddoch
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03 · 04

Super Twitter Background Extravagansa!

So I have been browsing the web and reading my friends blogs, there is one thing that is common right now, FREE GIVEAWAYS! So I have decided to have a giveaway of my own.

Here's the Deal

I am giving away a FREE Twitter Background to my readers and those who comment and support The Everyday Web Expert.

How to Enter

  1. Leave a comment below describing the most awkward experience you have had with a client.
  2. You must have a twitter account and use it regularly. Don't forget to fill-in the spot for your twitter username.
  3. I will randomly select one comment from the list.
The more interaction you have within this post, the better chances you have. Please be honest and reply to others comments.

Limited Time Only

This FREE giveaway will last ONE WEEK starting today and ending on March 11 at 11:59pm CST. As always, thanks for all who visit, interact, and support the site. ~ Kyle Reddoch
03 · 02

iHealthTube - Site of the Week - March 2, 2009

Now we have all heard of Youtube, a website of collected videos from people around the world. We know how popular video on the web is. What if the Health Industry used video on the web as an information source? Well my friends, they have done just that! My Site of the Week, iHealthTube, is a collection of short video segments on topics ranging from Depression to the Common Cold and much much more! With this site, you learn directly from experts and Doctors themselves! No need to read those big research books to get your answer, grab your mouse and head on over to iHealthTube.com today! ~ Kyle Reddoch
02 · 23

FairShare - Site of the Week - February 23, 2009

If you read my previous article pertaining to Content Theives, you will love my Site of the Week! FairShare is a brand new website and is still in BETA. I have set it up on my site and it works marvelous. It is a very promising website/application. When you go to FairShare and sign up, you will then be able to provide the link to your RSS feed and FairShare does the rest! FairShare then crawls your site and the internet and looks for where your content has been used. The results are provided to you in a RSS feed so you can be able to check your favorite RSS reader (Google Reader in my case) and see where your content is being used, whether it links back to you, and much much more. I have had GREAT results so far, check it out for yourselves!
I would love to hear the great results you have had with this product, leave a comment below.
~ Kyle Reddoch
02 · 18

Has Your Content Been Stolen?

Content Thieves are a common threat nowadays with the wide popularity of blogs. We have all heard in same fashion or another that these content thieves are popping up everywhere. Is the content you write safe? Sad to tell you but, NO it is not! There are ways that you find out if your content has been reproduced. Here are 3 Great ways to help you track down those foolish content thieves!

Phrase Search

What are phrase searches you may ask? Phrase Searches are those that look like this; "How do you track content thieves?" By using this approach, the search results will display that exact sentence where ever it may be on the internet. You have to make sure that you use the quotes are the text or else it will search each word individually. After you write an article, wait for about a month, just to let your content float around on the internet, then start making "phrase searches." After your article has been out on the internet for about a month, pick a couple of sentences from your article and run a "phrase search" on them. You might be surprised!

Hidden Link

You may also want to use a hidden link somewhere in your article. Most content thieves are STUPID and just copy/paste from your blog into theirs. By using this approach, it will copy the hidden link right into their article. Here is an example of a legal way of including that hidden link within your article so that you will be able to track it.
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What the display:none; attribute does is hide the entire link so that the content thief doesn't see it when copying your article. After you have done that, you will now be able to use a search engine to see all sites that link to that particular page. Which of course will only be the content thieves. If you are using Google as your search engine, use the following code to search that page:
link:http://www.example.com/haha.htm
Now you want to make sure to create an actual page on your site so that the search engines don't show that you have a broken link. You will not link to that page within your site though, just use it to catch theives.

So You Have Found a Thief, Now What?

If you've noticed that your content has been stolen, here is a few ways to resolve the situation.

Start off kind but firm

After you find the content theives site where they are posting your stolen content, try and email that person stating that they are using your content without your approval and is copyright infringement. Ask them to remove it from their site or you will be obligated to take greater measures.

Amp It Up

If the previous option has no luck, you will have to amp it up a notch.  You can use Domain Tools'  WhoIs function to look up the information for the domain name. For instance, who registered it, the contact information for that particular person, server information, etc. Most of the time, you will be able to find a phone number that you can contact the thief directly.

Extreme Measures

If you are still have no luck with getting the content thief to remove the copywritten article from their site, you will have to proceed in getting an attorney. No one wants to get involved with legal issues, but sometimes that is what will have to happen. Look at it this way, you have taking the time and research to write your article, why should another person flourish at your expense?

Your Experiences

Have you ran into this problem with your articles? I would like to hear about them and what you did to rectify the issue. Also, if you have any other suggestions on how to catch this crooks, leave a comment and I would love to add them to the post!

Great Tips from Readers

Here are some great tips from some of my readers. Thank all for such great support!
Rich Pearson - From Fairshare.cc I’d encourage you to try out FairShare - it’s free and tells you exacly who is copying your content all in a convenient RSS feed. It’ launched 3 weeks ago and is currently in beta at http://beta.fairshare.cc
Jonathan Bailey - From Plagarism Today On the resolution side, you can always file a DMCA notice with the host of the site if it is hosted within the U.S. A similar notice should work for sites in the EU, Australia and most other countries. Finally, you can use the same law if needed to remove the site from the search engines. Google, Yahoo, etc. all offer a process to file DMCA notices.
~ Kyle Reddoch
Kyle Reddoch

I am an aspiring Web Developer, Android Fanatic, Family Man, and all around Web Geek! I also do Freelance Development work.

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