If you are any good at affiliate marketing and have top rankings, you have no doubt been the victim of content theft and outright site stealing. Copyscape is of course one way to find and catch these online bandits. Rosalind Gardner shares with us a couple other ways to protect your online real estate from theft and the inevitable loss of search engine ranking that could follow if you get hit with duplicate content penalties. Rosalind writes:

“If you are an affiliate with a popular site, chances are good that some lazy jerk will try to rip you off for your site content or design. In some cases, they’ll just copy your whole site.

Catching these thieves is essential if you want to avoid having your site rankings slip due to duplicate content penalties. I am forever on the lookout for these thieves, and today while I was in the Commission Junction interface, I discovered another way to find them.”

Learn how to catch a thief at Ros’ blog, Three Ways to Catch Affiliate Site Rip-Off Artists.