Few months back we talked about copyscape service under title Is someone copying your blog?
Copyscape is an online service which helps you to find out who are copying your blog posts. If someone is copying your blog post that is called Plagiarism.
There are many reasons for which people copy your blog post.
1. Lack of understanding (Most of newbie’s)
2. Spam blogs ( To get traffic and authority)
It could be any reason. No matter who is copying your blog, it’s bad for you in many ways
Your bandwidth
Duplicate posts
Search engine ranking
Image hotlinking
The point here is if someone if copying your blog, you should take it seriously. The first approach should be contacting the author and make them understand the concept of plagiarism.
You should also read Darren post on what to do if someone is copying your blog post?
In most of the case this works. If not, you can report to the advertisement partner of that blog or the hosting company of the blog.
To make your work easier I’m pointing out few hosts along with the contact page to report abuse
| Hosting | Report Link |
| Blogspot | Blogspot spam |
| Wordpress.com | Wordpress.com spam |
| blog.co.in | blog.co.in abuse |
| Dreamhost | Dreamhost Spam |
| Adsense | Adsense Abuse reporting |
| Youtube | Youtube Spam |
By reporting spam, you are actually participating in the blogging community effort to keep it clean.
Do share your experience with copy paste posts people and how you fight against them?
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Good informative posts.
It’s a great post. Will definitely use it to watch out for thieves and report them.