My Stolen Medium Article

How I seized back control of a plagiarized Medium Article

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I’m a part-time writer. I don’t make a living from posting on Medium but I work hard on what I post. Like you, I know whatever I post represents my personal brand. So I took it personally when some team of internet SEO jackasses copied my top-performing Medium article, pasted it on their “fake” website, and then stole my top-ranked keyword search.

If you’d like to learn how easily your best work can be stolen — seemingly with complete impunity, read on. I’ll share with you the shocking things I discovered about how few safeguards there are to protect your work from plagiarism, as well as the steps and tools I used to seize back control of my plagiarized Medium article.

1. How my article was stolen
2. How I seized back control of my article
3. Final thoughts

I post about once a week. I write for practice and I write for fun. Usually, nobody reads my articles except for friends and family. But sometimes … every once and I while I knock one out of the park and receive a few thousand views. Two weeks ago, I posted my most successful post to date — just over 16K reads to date as I post this article.

Two weeks ago I posted;