It is good when other websites share your content with the with all their own visitors as long as you are mentioned as the person who have written it in the first place and also have a link that is directed to your website.

We must admit however that not everyone who takes a part or your entire content makes mention of it source. That is where we have a problem. Doing this is theft and should not be encouraged.

There are a few things that you can do to deter some content being stolen or protect it.

The first thing to do is to find out who is actually stealing your content. The popular medium to find these culprits on the web is by using Copyscape, Copygator or Copyrightspot. All that is required is for you to put the page URL in a search box and the system will search the world wide web to find all the websites that have any content that matches your original one.

After doing that you will see all the content that matches yours by visiting the links provided by the system you used. Here you can see if you are even being given the proper credit or not. The next step to do is that if a web site owner is found in a violation of plagiarism then they should be contacted to remove the content.

All is required of you is to make is known that you are the writer or creator of the content and no referencing to you have been done so they are guilty of plagiarizing. After taking this first step you should just wait a couple of day to see if they have taken any action to correct their ways. If the content was not removed and neither was any attribution given then its advice to seek a legal counsel.

Another step that can be taken to help and deter thieves is by placing Copyright badges on your website. This let anyone who thinks of taking your content know that you are monitoring your articles. Copyscape for example is a medium through which you can get a free bade for your websites.

Myfreecopyright is another option that not only gives you a badge but will also give your urls that you upload a digital fingerprint and time stamps of the content you create. Doing this gives your content more protection and not to mention stability. Also doing this will allow you to be able to take legal actions much more easily.

Finally another thing that can be done to try and alleviate the problem of theft is to prevent copy and paste. WordPress allows for a plug-in to be downloaded that prevents this. Although nothing is 100% it is worth a try to prevent your hard work from being stolen.