{"id":234,"date":"2006-07-19T09:04:32","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T17:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:31:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T17:31:05","slug":"three-ways-to-catch-affiliate-site-rip-off-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/three-ways-to-catch-affiliate-site-rip-off-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Ways to Catch Affiliate Site Rip-Off Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/thief.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thief\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11119\" \/><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In some cases, they'll just copy your whole site.<\/p>\n<p>Catching these thieves is essential if you want to avoid having your site rankings slip due to duplicate content penalties.<\/p>\n<p>I am forever on the lookout for these thieves, and today while I was in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qksrv.net\/click-211898-1031551\">Commission Junction<\/a> interface, I discovered another way to find them.<\/p>\n<p>The thief at meet-date-love.com forgot to swap out my affiliate links from <a href=\"http:\/\/101Date.com \">101Date.com<\/a> for his own. So, when the Gay.com banner expired, <strong>it showed up in the <em>invalid links report <\/em> at CJ, as shown in the graphic below<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/images\/cj-bad-links.gif\" alt=\"\"  align=\"center\"\/ ><\/p>\n<p>Duh.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two more thieves that I found when I ran a search for the <em>secret phrase <\/em>that I build into all my pages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>deai-renai.com<\/li>\n<li>datingfox.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Another way to find those plagiarizing jerks is to use <a href=\"http:\/\/copyscape.com\">Copycape.com<\/a>.  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They offer free and paid versions of their service. Just type in your URL at <a href=\"http:\/\/copyscape.com\">Copycape.com<\/a> to check out the free version.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know of more ways to catch an affiliate thief?<br \/>\n<strong>Did you find this post informative and useful?  If so, please share it with others! 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