Plagiarism of articles is rife on the web. I have sufferred from this time and time again. And it’s very annoying that someone steals your work and either gives you no credit or the correct link-back. Worse still I have found some people actually claim it’s their own work!
Well I’m not a prolific article writer. Yet, nearly every single article I have written has been plagiarised !! (this will be too probably).
The chances are your article content has also been stolen, adapted or not credited to you.
Now I don’t mind if they stick to the Article Syndication Rules and leave in the writing credits and website links. Often I’m glad articles are published elsewhere – it spreads my message, my links or name to a wider audience. That’s all well and good…
…but some are deliberately stealing the content as an easy and free way to bulk out their own web sites and blogs for free, for their own gain and usually for SEO purposes such as gaining ranking for certain keywords.
Well the GOOD NEWS is…
the law and web authorities are on your side.
Firstly. How do you know if someone is using your content? The WWW is a big place yeah? Well you can use various tools to find content here are a few:
Google Search & Google Blog Search
Google Alerts
CopyScape
DMCA