Hmm what should I do? Is this a sign that my hubs were copied?

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   lobobrandonposted 12 years ago

   Hi everyone, first of all I'm placing this in the Hangout rather than help section as I want the opinion of other hubbers and not a help as such.
   
   I just checked my traffic sources and it shows as 1 view today from freearticle.co
   Over the past week 10 from it and overall 15. Do u think a hub was copied or something?

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      Dale Hydeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      What I have found when that happens is that a link to your hub has been placed on the page you are receiving hits from.

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         lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Yes I do know that the link is from the page it comes from. But the website looks to be like a scraper and seems to be loaded with copied content.

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      Susana Sposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Probably copied. The website it looks like a spammy content farm.

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         lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Ya that's exactly what I think as well. But I wonder how they placed my link - Hmm will check some hubs and see who's the one getting visits from this place.

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            lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            I found the hub that's getting traffic from them.. Time to check for copies

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               lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               Copyscape shows that no content was copied from that hub. I googled a para and no results as well. I wonder where my link is on that site then

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                  Dale Hydeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  Sometimes it will show in  a Twitter RSS feed that may be somewhere on the site if you have Tweeted the hub.  I have gotten some hits from some sites that I never found the link however.

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                  Susana Sposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  Do you have any links to that hub from another hub? It might be a another hub that's been copied that contains a link to the one receiving traffic, if that makes sense.
                  
                  You can also look in analytics. Go to traffic sources > referral traffic > click on the link from freearticle.co and it should have the source url that the traffic is coming from.

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                     lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                     I'll do the analytics thing. According to me, if people visit one of your hubs and are redirected to another hub it shows as a visit from yourname.hubpages.com rather than the original - isn't it?
                     
                     Just to make sure I'll check the analytics and let u know

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                        lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                        Oh it's nothing to worry I got myself a backlink - not from a high PR site though
                        
                        Here's the link of the source of traffic
                        freearticle.co/business/elance-proficiency-test-questions-and-elance-test-answers-pass-with-these-elance-admission-test-answers/

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                           Susana Sposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                           A link is a link Better than having to deal with DMCA's at least!

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                              lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                              Yup that's true. I was worried about the DCMA stuff as I'm busy lol

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                        diplessposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                        Yes but if someone has just copied your article this will include the link to your article and so the referring site will no longer be yourname.hubpages.com it will be the site which has your copied content.
                        
                        Hope this helps.

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                           lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                           Yup got it thanks

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