There are millions of blogs and websites on the Internet and we cannot imagine how many websites people copy and put content on their website.

If you also have a website or blog and you want that if someone copies your content then you can get it removed, then you can do it with the help of DMCA.

I shared information in a post What are the pros and cons of copying from another website? If you have not read it, then you must read that article once.


What is DMCA

The full-form of DMCA is Digital Millennium Copyright Act which is the US Copyright Law.

What is DMCA Protection / Protect Website With DMCA Badge
What is DMCA Protection / Protect Website With DMCA Badge
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is intended to protect digital products such as audio, video, images and text from being copied.

With the help of DMCA we can protect our content. If someone copy our content without our permission, so we can easily remove our copyright content by complain the DMCA. 

If you have a blog or website, then you must also be concerned about how to prevent people from copying my content, so you can put a badge of DMCA on your website, after which if anyone copies your content, then you will know about it and you can also get your content removed.

With the help of DMCA, we can also put a watermark in the image, so that if someone copies it, our website's name and logo will be on it.

If we understand the meaning of DMCA in simple words, it means that we are submitting our content to DMCA and telling them that this is our content. Then it gets saved in their database. After this, if anyone copies our content then we get information about it an we can get the content removed by filing DMCA easily.

DMCA Protected Certificate

If we put the DMCA badge in our website, then a certificate is obtained for our page, which contains information related to the page when it has been submitted and what information is there on that page.

DMCA Protected Certificate
You can see in the certificate that any page for which DMCA certificate is there, the title of that page, its URL, when the protection is active and how many days like has all the information.

So if you also put original content on your site, then DMCA badge must be added to your site to protect it.

How to protect content with DMCA

To protect your content with the help of DMCA, you have to create an account by visiting the DMCA website, then after that the DMCA badge has to be placed in your site.


After opening the DMCA website, you will get 2 options there: (1) Free plan and (2) Pro plan.

If you take a pro plan, you will get more data security and if someone copies your content then action will be taken immediately.


To create a free account, click on the  Go Free  button, after that fill the sign up form and open the account.

  • First name
  • Last Name
  • Enter website name
  • Enter email id
  • Click on submit button.
Now you will receive an email for confirmation from the DMCA. Verify the account by clicking on the link given in it.

How to add DMCA badge on site

After creating an account, DMCA badge has to be added on the site, for that you have to copy the badge code and add it to your website.


After visiting the page of DMCA badge, you will see many badge designs, select whatever is right for your site. Then copy the code in the side.


After copying the code, you have to add it to the footer of your website.

If you have a blog on Blogger, you can add code to HTML Widget and put it in the footer.

There is also a DMCA plugin for WordPress blog, you can use it or copy the direct code and add it to the footer of the theme of your blog.


After adding the DMCA badge, your site will look something like this.

By clicking on the DMCA Protected badge, the DMCA certificate on that page opens.

Note: If you have taken free DMCA protection, then DMCA Protection Pending will appear in the certificate for 30 days.

At Last

Today you have known What is DMCA and how to add DMCA Protected badge in website? If you still have any questions related to DMCA, then you must comment and ask, I will be happy to help you.

Friends, if you like this information then share this post as much as possible so that people will get help because of you and they can also secure their content. Thanks ;)

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