Best Tips and Advises for avoiding of Stolen Content
Here we will talking about content safe or avoid of content copy. have a blog, write articles for content websites, or manage
an online magazine, chances are you’ve had, or will have, your content
stolen at least once. The stolen content then is re-posted on other
blogs, article websites, and personal websites without proper
attribution.Sometimes articles are copied directly from your site to another
person’s site. In other cases, your article is spun or slightly
modified, but the final result clearly is based on your original work.
There also could be situations where your content is re-posted with
proper attribution, but without your permission. While instances of this
nature are not always harmful to your site and/or reputation, if you
want to keep your original content on your site only, then you should
have the duplicate content removed.
The good news is that no matter how or why your content is used
without your prior knowledge, there are measures you can take to have it
removed from the offending website. And there even are ways to prevent
your content from being stolen in the first place. Today, I’m going to
tell you about 5 easy tools you can use for these tasks.
How to Find Out If Your Content Has Been Stolen
1. Google Alerts
There are a number of tools you can use to scour the internet and see if your content is being used without your permission. One of the best and simplest tools for this is Google alerts
You simply need to go to the Google Alerts website, put in a portion
of your article, choose what types of websites should be searched, and
then provide your email address so Google can contact you with the
results. You can create as many alerts as you like and adjust the
settings to be notified on a daily, weekly, or “as it happens” basis.
Google Alerts is a great tool to use to search for stolen content.
2. Copyscape
Copyscape is a good option
for those who publish a lot of content. Premium results are not free,
but they are well worth the money spent. All you have to do is type in
your website URL. Then Copyscape will search the web and let you know
which sites are reposting your content.
Copyscape is a helpful tool to use to see if your website content has been plagiarized.
Yet another good tool for catching content thieves is trackback notifications.
These notifications are provided automatically by well-known website
and blog platforms such as WordPress, Drupal, and Movable Type. They
will notify you as soon as someone links to your post.
If a particular site is linking to your site on a regular basis,
there is a chance the site is copying and reposting your material. In
order to use trackback notifications, you simply need to look over the
feedback provided by your site (which usually is sent to you via email),
and then check any site that you deem suspicious.
How to Remove the Offending Content
Many bloggers and webmasters have a contact page or email address on
their sites, so you can contact them and ask to have duplicate content
removed. While many content thieves will ignore emails of this nature,
others will take down your content as soon as you ask them to,
especially if you mention that you will file a complaint against them if
the article is not removed in a timely manner.
3. Who Is Hosting This
If your request falls on deaf ears, then contact the website hosting
service that hosts the site. You can find the information you need by
going to Who Is Hosting This
and typing in the URL of the site that has stolen your content. Website
hosting services usually are much more efficient when it comes to
removing duplicate content than webmasters. Often, they will take down
the entire site that has posted your content without permission.
Who Is Hosting This does the hard work for you. One
of the hardest parts of fighting plagiarism is determining the host of a
website.
If your article has been republished on an article-sharing site such
as Ezine, HubPages, or Suite101, then contact the site administration
regarding the duplicate content. Provide the link to your original
content, the date it was published, and a statement making it clear that
you are in fact the author of the content in question.
Article-submission sites are quick to act against content thieves. They
may even close the guilty individual’s account.
In Summary
Content theft on the internet always will be a problem. Thankfully,
there are a number of things you can do to prevent, track, and deal with
stolen content. The above-mentioned tools and tips can help you protect
your content from being scraped or at least ensure that you get the
credit you deserve for all of your hard work and careful research.
Have you ever had your content stolen? How did you deal with it? Let
us know your tips, ideas, and opinions about this common problem. We
look forward to hearing from you!
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