This morning I opened up my administrative page to the apparently pleasant sight that I had lots and lots of comments. In fact, they were links to my site. However, when I started to approve them, many of which came from the same site in Spanish, I couldn’t see any context around them. Usually, I see a few words that show they’re saying something about my review. So, I went to the website they were on, only to find that someone had copied my entire Authors page over to their site, with links to my reviews. The only difference was that all the titles had been translated to Spanish.

I don’t read or speak Spanish, but it was seemed to me that the site was presenting them as links to biographies of the authors named, which they are not. I looked at one other page on the site, and I am guessing that it was a copied page as well, with direct links to someone else’s site. I’m guessing that all their pages are like this. In fact, they have created an “informative” website by wholly copying material from other people’s sites.

Essentially, since my Authors page links to all of my reviews, I feel like they are trying to take credit for all of my web content, and I believe that the other website authors would feel the same.

Since the other site was also on WordPress, I looked up how to address the issue through them. They first want you to contact the other site holder. Well, I tried, through their comments, and stunningly, they wanted my phone number before I could leave a comment, something I am not going to leave. So, I filed a form with WordPress asking for the content to be removed.

If you are a blogger, has anything like this happened to you?