How To File Notification of Infringement In Compliance With DMCA

Whether you are a blogger or sell digital products, in today's day and age you must know how to protect your copyright and fight copyright violators. Copycats can cost you not only your search engine ranking, reputation, but also money, and depending whether you are in the business of making money on the web or it is your substitute source of income, you need to know how to protect the little that you make.

If you have found someone stealing your digital works, here is an excellent post on how to protect your digital intellectual property.

I recently had an incident where I found someone selling my copyrighted materials on eBay using a free hosted site located on freewebs. After the initial contact with Freewebs abuse department I received the following response, so I am posting it here and if you are looking for detailed information on how to file DMCA in compliance with the law, here is the information and the format you will need:

Dear Freewebs User,

Thank you for contacting FreeWebs Corporation ("FreeWebs"). FreeWebs respects the intellectual property rights of others and we would be pleased to take action pursuant to the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") and/or FreeWebs established polices and procedures to assist you in the protection of the intellectual property rights held by you or your client.

However, your recent correspondence was insufficient to constitute an effective Notification of Infringement ("NOI") within the meaning of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") and/or as required by FreeWebs policy. The elements required for an effective NOI, and the contact information for submitting a NOI to FreeWebs, are set forth below.

Please be aware that you may submit a NOI in response to this e-mail. To be effective within the meaning of the DMCA, a NOI must contain substantially the following:

1. A description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property
that you claim has been infringed;

2. A description of the location where the material that you claim is infringing is located;

3. A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the reported use is not authorized by the copyright or intellectual property owner, its agent, or the law;

4. Your address, telephone number, and, if available, e-mail address;

5. A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf; and

6. An electronic or physical signature by the person making the submission (i.e., you or such other person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright holder). If the submission is made electronically, to satisfy the signature requirement please designate the electronic signature by typing a forward slash before and after the name of the authorized person making the submission (e.g., /Jane Doe/) and follow this electronic signature with the typed name of the person. For example:

/Jane Doe/
Jane Doe

This format is intended to represent a signature and typed name as is customarily found within the signature block of business correspondence transmitted in hard copy.

Once FreeWebs has received a NOI containing each of the required elements detailed above, FreeWebs will expeditiously proceed to process your request.

We wish to thank you in advance for your cooperation and assistance. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or we can further assist you in this matter.

Best Regards,
Freewebs

How To Secure High SE Ranking

You probably have noticed lately that SERP's have been acting strange and sites that used to rank high for certain keywords are nowhere to be found and have been replaced with authority sites.

It's what's called Google shuffle, meaning Google is updating its algorithms. As a result, many pages will be moved down in the search results and some will completely disappear. Unless you have a well-established site, you need to protect your ranking (and your income respectively) by securing your positions on the first page of Google.

First of all, if your site or blog is brand new when such algorithm shift occurs and you have noticed a sudden dip in organic traffic, check to see if your blog is still indexed. Supplemental index gets dumped during such algorithm changes. If you fall off the search engine, re-submit your site to all major search engines.

Another important tip is to always submit articles to major article directories. Five to ten directories is more than plenty. I've seen people sell software that supposedly submits to hundreds of directories. I think it's overkill, cause most people have their browser set to display only ten search results on the first page, so that's where you need to be. Here is are some suggestions:

EzineArticles.com
GoArticles.com
ArticleDashboard.com
SearchWarp.com
ArticlesBase.com
iSnare.com
SelfGrowth.com
Buzzle.com
ArticleCity.com
IdeaMarketers.com
ArticleAlley.com
Web-Source.net
SelfSEO.com
Amazines.com
ArticleTrader.com
SearchGuild.com
WebWorldIndex.com
ArticleSphere.com
BusinessKnowHow.com
PromotionWorld.com
ArticlesFactory.com
ExcellentGuide.com/article
ContentDesk.com
ArticleCube.com
AfroArticles.com
ArticleBiz.com

Lastly, when you submit articles, it's best that you spin them in some article rewriter. Most article rewrites will allow you to use the software for free for fifteen days and then if you like it, you buy the full version. There are hundreds of them, so if you do a google search for article rewriter software you can shop around and try different types.

Always make different titles for your articles even if you are submitting the same article without spinning it. That will give you more flexibility and diversify your keywords in the article titles.

Always use your keywords in the article titles. It makes it easier for search engines and people as well.

Important thing to mention – and it is a common mistake amongst authors and bloggers; at the end of your article you always want to say something to this affect, if you want to learn more, or if you want to learn how........ blah, blah, blah, visit this site (link). I have seen many inexperienced authors write copious amount of material and provide all the info that's sought inside the article. Then they give you a resource box which says, the author is so and so and here is her web site. This defeats the purpose of submitting your article. You have already given your readers information within the article. Why would they want to visit your blog?

What you want is a hook. You want to get them interested enough to want to learn more.
I keep my articles no longer than 350 words. The shorter, the better.

Let's say you are selling dog food. Here is a random example of a good article that brings you traffic that will buy dog food from your blog (not a good article in a sense of literally quality, but your goal here is to sell, not to entertain):

“My dog used to always be sick. I constantly took her to the vet. The vet suggested giving my dog more vitamins, but I did not see much improvement. My dog was ten years old, and at this age dogs start having tumors and other illnesses. I noticed that sometimes she was not as playful as she used to be and it broke my heart.”

“I thought nothing would cure her until one day a friend of mine came from out of town and she shared a secret that made a tremendous difference.”

“I soon noticed to my surprise that my dog started acting like when she was young. I simply could not believe the changes she had made in just a little over one month. Visit my blog (link) to learn the secrets that cured my dog.”

Then on your blog pages you tell your visitors what food and by what manufacturer and at the end of the article you provide a link to place an order. That's it! You're alll set!

How To Write Blog Posts Fast

If you are in the online business for money, you must understand that there is a difference between amateurs and the pros. If you are just a blogger with a silly little blog writing your blog posts when the inspiration kicks in, forget about making money online and through that silly idea out of the window.

If you are serious about making money online, you don’t have time to spend three hours thinking about what to write and how to write a blog post. You need to write quickly, because what makes money online is volume.

The gurus have literally hundreds of blogs, squidoo lenses, they write articles they submit to hundreds of article directories, etc. There is also duplicate content penalty, thus to accomplish the best rankings in search engines you must have unique content in each of your blog post and even the articles you submit to directories have to differentiate.

Who has time for all that? This is where the help of the software specifically designed for bloggers and people serious about making a living online comes in handy.

This software that you can download online on this page will help you create unique articles with ease even if you have a writer’s block. So, check it out if you are serious about making money online.