Combating Content Theft
You work hard to create, research and write your content. Then other websites get visitors and praise for your hard work writing your article. Maybe you know about this or not but be sure if you have created somewhat quality content you will find that it is published elsewhere. Fist you need to know where your content is being copied you could easily do this by highlighting some text of your article and doing a search. If you see your text appearing on search results for sites that you have not permitted to publish the articles or text you should try to contact the website owner to remove the content at once.
Best Ways to Find out If your content is being copied by someone?
It is important to figure out whether your articles or blog post being copied by someone without your knowledge. How you going to find it out? You will find many different ways to trace plagiarism in cyberspace.
Paid Plagiarism Tools
One such a website that provides a service to prevent content theft is copyscape; a paid plagiarism checker that will find the duplicate content for a given url but the plagiarism checking tool is not a free service.
Free Content Theft Checking Tools
Try Plaguim It is free and simple to use tool but lacks some of the features of a pro copyscape account. The web site will request for any donation to make use of the service but it’s not compulsory.To make use of the service all you need to do is copy this content you believe has been released elsewhere and paste it in to the box.Based on your selection you can decide on a couple of options and it’ll demonstrate where your articles is released and also the guilty websites inside a timeline graph.If you’re suspicious that the submissions are being replicated then check out Plagium in an effort to track your articles for duplicate copies online with free streaming .But don’t forget it’s free making a donation to Plagium if you’re able to afford it.
Another free and simple way is to use Google it self as a duplicate content checker. Copy a paragraph or two from your article and paste it on the Google search text box and press search button. If your content is being copied and Google will bring up all those web pages.
Preventing Content Theft
Disable Right Click it’s not Advisable as it can destroy the functionality of many website and blog features.
Trick People that Steal your Work using Tynt
Use the Anti Feed Scraper Plugin for WordPress as RSS content Theft is one of the Biggest forms of Online Content Theft.
Use Summary RSS Feeds although many Email Subscribers tend to enjoy full RSS Feeds so you could loose RSS Subscribers by not Enabling Full Rss feeds on your Blog.
Add Copyright message and warning at the bottom of your pages.
What to Do When Your Content Is Stolen
Read the Following Article that Summarises What Actions to be taken if your content are copied?. To Get some Basic Advice about what you need to Do when your Content is Copied.
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