Tools to make sure your content is not plagiarized!
When I started this website, in a bid to increase my traffic, I wrote a ton of articles which I then put on article submission sites. (The list of my favourite article submission sites is here.) What really bugged the hell out of me was when I then did a search on Google for one of my article’s title and about 50% of the sites which I found my article on didn’t have a link back to either my site nor the article submission site. Some of said websites credited my work to me, i.e. “written by Ciara Carruthers” but nonetheless, they (surely knowingly) stole my work. That’s what it is: stealing. The content on article submission sites is only free IF webmasters abide by the rule and regulations, which always state that the ‘About the Author’ section must remain intact, along with any live links.
On the side of webmasters, some of you surely have employed the aid of a website copywriter. There are SO many website content writers out there on the net, some offering ridiculously low prices which may deliver a good product, but probably won’t. If you are paying a writer $10 per hour, you can bet he or she is not putting a lot of time into your articles. Plagiarism also abounds on this side of the coin. Writers who work for pennies (and probably also writers who charge more) often copy and paste excerpts from various sources, combining it all into one article which, on the surface, is original, but is definitely plagiarised.
So, the point is, all of us can use and should use the following two free services:
Article Checker - with Article Checker you can copy and paste an entire article into the ‘checker’ and it will bring up different excerpts which seem like they have come from another source on the net. So, if somebody is just copying and pasting various sentences or paragraphs, you’ll know. When you start out with any copywriter, I suggest you use this website to check each article for the first week or so, then sporadically after that.
Copy Scape - allows you to type in the url of your site and find out if anyone is using your copy without your permission. You can also get a html warning to put on your site which goes a little something like this: “Protected by CopyScape” which hopefully will ward off potential content thieves.
I have found that if you do find someone using your content, a simple email saying either “please take my content off your site” or “please add a live link back to my site”, along with a smiling threat such as “or I will take further actions”, does the trick.
Often, people that steal other’s content are so unprofessional that they don’t even have contact details on their site. For this instance, you can go to www.who.is, type in the domain name and find out who owns the site.
Finally, if you are somebody who would even consider using somebody’s content, even by changing it slightly, don’t even go there. In the long run, original and fresh content, even though it takes longer to write, will bring much more traffic and clients. If you feel you can’t write, then you have two choices; firstly, learn to write effective web content or hire a professional website content writer to do it for you (preferably me…)
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