I suspect someone is copying and using my content

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  debramoffitt · Member · Nov 9, 2015 at 7:12 am

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  On two days, Nov. 1st and on Nov. 5th, there were a large number of ‘views’ to my site and very few visitors. I suspect someone is culling and copying my content. Can you see who is visiting and check? I have clear copyright statements on my blog and the material I write belongs to me.
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  Debra Moffitt
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  auxclass · Member · Nov 9, 2015 at 7:23 am

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  If someone is stealing your content you usually just see a lower visitor / page view count – try searching on some of your text from the Post (use quotes to cut down on the false positives) and see what you find

  There are also web sites that will search the web for content from your site

  I don’t know if the logs will help at all – but I will flag this for the staff

  Content Theft & Abuse – Logos

  Prevent Content Theft

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/content-theft-what-to-do/

  http://en.wordpress.com/abuse/

  http://automattic.com/dmca-notice/

  If you’re feeling really mean, this should also help http://drinkscoaster.com/2013/01/02/whine-journalism-and-how-to-bring-the-splashback/ (thanks @Raincoaster)

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Nov 9, 2015 at 9:17 pm

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  @Debra Moffitt:

  I recommend using Google or the like to search for part of your content, and check to see if anyone’s using it. If so, you’d need to raise that with whatever host the site is using. It may or may not be something we can address, depending on whether the offending site is at WordPress.com.