Someone Stole My Article, Then Medium Recommended It To Me
Have I made it in the online world?
This morning, I opened up my Medium homepage and saw something familiar.
5 Quick SEO Tasks That Will Get You More Website Traffic
That article sounded oddly familiar.
I’ve published 419 articles, and I don’t remember all of them. I clicked to read that article, because I remember writing something very similar to it a while back.
I start reading and the writing also sounded familiar — like something I’d write.
I go to my profile and search “5 Quick seo” and sure enough, my article that I published ~6 months ago comes up.
Hmm…
Maybe the person took my title and included 5 different tips/tasks. I do that too, but usually I change a few words in the title to make it my own.
That wasn’t the case here.
The thief put no effort in. They copy/pasted my article and published it as their own — the screenshots, featured image, and all.
