People are working on the 'net checking out your rankings, or seeing what your opposition is putting up on their websites when it occurs. You observe something common on someone else's web site. You look at it a bit more personally and lo and watch -- somebody has stolen your website content and put it on their web site. They have posted your accurate content on their web site lacking your authorization, and what's bad, they might be profiting from money that should be coming into your pocket. Stolen content that's posted as photocopy content on somebody else's site can hurt you in a number of ways, thieving web site traffic, diverting sales and yet get your web site banned from search engines for hosting duplicate content.

Stealing content from web sites, and occasionally whole web sites, is more common than most people think. It's known as copyright infringement, and there are steps that you can take to force the owner of the other web site to eliminate your content from their site.

1: Locate duplicated content from your site on other people's web site.

• Using Copyscape you can simply enter your website URL and will come back other pages that contain content with major matches of words.
• Enter a few sentences from the start of your page into a search engine in quotes. It will go back your own pages and any other sites wherever those sentences are copied.
• Google image search is mostly used to search stolen images from your website.
2. Find out who owns the website on which your content is posted.
• Get contact information from the website where your duplicate content is posted.
• You can get contact information by using “whois”.domain.