What to Do If Your Website or Content Gets Stolen?

Unfortunately, content theft happens quite often. Sometimes people clone your entire website, scrape your content automatically, or copy it manually. Here’s what you can do if this happens.

Someone Cloned Your Entire Website (Including Theme and Plugins)

This typically only happens if you’ve shared access with third parties who then downloaded all your files and database, or if your hosting account was hacked. It’s relatively rare—most cases involve only your content or HTML.

If you suspect someone copied your entire site including your license keys, contact our support team. We’ll issue you new license keys.

Someone Stole Your Content or Copied Your HTML

This is far more common. In these cases, they don’t have your CMS, theme, or plugins—just your content (text, images, layout). Changing your license keys won’t help here. Instead, you’ll need to take action with the hosting provider and search engines.

Who Should You Contact?

We don’t have any control over the site that copied yours—we can’t shut it down or revoke their license. Also, keep in mind it can be hard to get stolen content removed, since proving original authorship is not always straightforward.

Here’s what we recommend:

Gather evidence.

Document everything that proves you published the content first. This could include original text files, contracts with writers, or archived snapshots (for example, the Wayback Machine) showing earlier dates.
Contact their hosting provider.

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