What is blog Plagiarism?
In my last article how to protect your blog from copy geeks
Michael Aulia asked a question that he find a website who copy his blog post and he didn’t know how to deal with such copy masters.In this article i want to focus on all the aspects of Blog Plagiarism.
The process of copying the content from one blog to another blog without any previous information to the owner of the article is known as blog Plagiarism.
You can have a look on the article written by Harsh:
How to report blog posts copy spam to fight against plagiarism
I am adding some point on this topic:
How may that effect your search engine ranking
Blog Plagiarism may effect your search engine ranking. It might be possible that original post may slip down in search engine results. It may effect your blog SEO.But the probability of such an occurrence is very low because search engine algorithm are very efficient, so chances of copied content of becoming the top spot is very low and it might be possible that search engine would count them as spam and never index them in the search engine.
How to find someone is copying your post
There are two most efficient tools present on the web, i.e. Copyscape and Copygator. You have to fetch your URL to check if any content of your site is present on any other site. There is one more very efficient way of checking this.Just copy the small portion of an article and search the part in Google , if someone copied your article it should be indexed on Google , so Google will tell you the rest of the story. I also suggest Plagium which is also efficient tool to check blog Plagiarism.
How to deal with such copy Geeks
The person who copy the post are mostly those who don’t have knowledge about the seriousness of the activity. So don’t be too aggressive to deal with the situation.
- Find the email ID or contact information of the person from the contact me page. Send a formal mail and tell the scraper about the illegal matter and request him to remove the article.
- If the response is not positive then you need to go for some serious approach:
Contact Google
If the scraper is making money from your article then you feel free to contact Google and report them about the illegal activities by the scraper.
Contact Webhost
You should also contact with the webhosting company of the site and report about the illegal activities by scraper.If the webhost found the site is involved in such an activity then it could be possible that whole site would flagged by Webhosting company. There are several handy tools available to check the webhost like Whois.net and Wmtips.
Contact Advertising company
Most of advertising company like adsense, mediaburst have strict TOS regarding plagiarism. You can send them an Email giving all the details and wait for them to take action.
Copying content doesn’t mean blogging, it is something like having the taste of someone’s other hard work. If anyone need to copy the content of other post the you should give proper credit to the writer and before that take prior permission of the writer by mailing them.This would add the value to your blog.
Do let us know, if you have been fallen in similar kind of situation ever? And if yes, what what your approach to fight against such copy paste geeks?
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I had contacted a guy yesterday only regarding this matter.
He is a forum owner. I told him to remove the content.
He replied that he has not copied the content but taken it from tata indicom website. It was a lie as he edited the content before replying me.
Puneet well most of the time , guy might not co-operate with you. The best thing here is the guy rewrite the article.. In other word he removed it and that’s what is good for your blog.
Well my experience say its quite difficult to handle such problems…
there are myriads blogs and still counting,so it’s next to impossible to check who is stealing what and whether it has been edited or not,but yes copyscape and Plagium can solve your problem to a extent.
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Thanks Ashish for suggesting these two services. I will definitely go for it. You can also have a look on Copygator, amazing tool to check who is stealing your content.
Lucky I have never had to deal with somebody copying my hard work. Of course I seen people with auto blogs take parts of my content with links back to my blog post.
Got to love free backlinks.
Thanks for this article though. Now I know what to do if somebody copies my whole post.
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Nice post.
I sometimes check the unique sentence from the post and put in google search engine to find the culprits.
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To the author of this post,
Please use correct conjugations (“he find a website who copy his blog post” vs “he found a website who copied his blog post”) as well as: word choice (“It may effect your blog SEO” vs “It may affect your blog SEO”), avoid improper use of terms (“copy paste geeks” vs the accepted Internet term “copypasta”), and be consistent on capitalization (“email” then “Email”).
Other than that, it was a great read. Keep up the good work!
Atleast these services will help us to protect our blog from plagiarism to some extend.
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@suthor/admin, Thanks for sharing these useful tips to your visitors. I have visited here a few times actually and you always have something useful and informative.
@Deneil Merritt, I too have seen my content copied w/ a link back though I never viewed it as a “free backlink” thanks for changing my perspective.
@That guy,
Though I think it’s a bit cheezy to leave a comment such as yours anonymously (If your being constructive not mean spirited you have no reason to post anonymously in my opinion), I have to thank you as well for enlightening me on the term copypasta. That’s a new one.