How to Find the Websites or Blogs that are Copying your Content
The websites or blogs that copy your content are actually committing Black-Hat SEO, which is something that Google punishes sites for. The trouble is that Google does not know who the duplicator is, and so will often punish both sites for duplicate content. This means that if another person copies your content, then they are also dragging your website down with them too. Added to this, is the insult that you have invested time (or money) into your web content, and now somebody else has come along and is stealing it.
The websites or blogs that copy your content are actually committing Black-Hat SEO, which is something that Google punishes sites for. The trouble is that Google does not know who the duplicator is, and so will often punish both sites for duplicate content. This means that if another person copies your content, then they are also dragging your website down with them too. Added to this, is the insult that you have invested time (or money) into your web content, and now somebody else has come along and is stealing it.
CopyScape is a very good plagiarism checker
It is good because it
has a reasonable mix of economy and quality. The truth is that there are
some better plagiarism checkers out there, but they are very expensive
when compared to CopyScape. On the other hand, do not let price fool
you. There are some plagiarism checkers out there that are far more
expensive than CopyScape and yet are not nearly as good as CopyScape.
This is a tool
that you can use which will check the search engines for your content.
The truth is that if the duplicate (plagiarized) content is not indexed
by Google or Bing, then CopyScape is not going to find it. However, if
Google or Bing has not indexed your plagiarized content yet, then there
should not be any search engine penalizations.
You can check up to 2000
words in one go, and it only costs 5c. Or, you can load a number of
text-filled documents into a batch search and it will check them all for
you. It keys in on chains of three words. It also has a tolerance of
around 5%. This is because some websites are going to have chains of
three words that are the same as yours; however, if this occurs for more
than 5% of the page, the CopyScape tool will show you a result. This
does sometimes produce false positives, but they are few and far
between.
CopySentry can stand guard over your content
If you are concerned
that people are going to steal your content, then you can have
CopySentry run a check on your chosen web pages every week. It is a tool
offered by CopyScape, and it means that you will not have to keep
running plagiarism checks manually. Also, as you can imagine, there is a
small service charge for doing this, but CopyScape allows you to buy
credit so that you will not have to make a payment every time it runs a
check. CopyScape takes PayPal payments too, so you do not have to worry
about entering your card details.
CopyScape free URL searches
Every day you are able
to run five free searches on the URLs of your choice. That means that if
you were so inclined, you could check 35 pages per week for free. The
tool will check the entire page and then show the pages that have been
copied by others. If it does find copied content, the results it gives
are pretty good. It will show you how many domains have the content, and
you can click on the link to see what parts are copied from your
website (or content). It will tell you how much of the page has copied
content via a percentage, and it will highlight any copied content in
red.
Google your own topics to look for plagiarism
When somebody re-writes
your content or copies your content and hides it from the plagiarism
checkers (it can be done), they are often uncreative in choosing a new
title. All you need to do is Google your own page titles to see what
turns up. Hopefully, you will see your own page riding high in the
search engine results. Look around the search engine for articles with
similar titles, and you may just come across your article that has been
hidden from the plagiarism checkers.
You will have trouble finding spun content
This is true because
according to a web crawler and plagiarism checker, if an article has
been spun then it is new. Of course, it is not new by human standards,
and if you are unlucky enough to read it then you will see that it makes
very little sense and that it flows as well as syrup from a coffee
filter. Nevertheless, for some reason people still do it, and it is
possible to file a cease and desist order if you find content that has
been spun from your content because it is still plagiarism.
About Author:
Kate Funk coaches individuals in SEO and business networking skills at Tutortop.
source:-thecrazyprogrammer.com
