There are so many lazy people out there eagerly waiting for you to produce quality content which they can then duplicate in their website. So if you have a blog or even manage an online magazine, chances are that one day, someone will steal your content. This content is then posted to different areas without proper credit to you.
There are several steps you can take to ensure your content is not duplicated by lazy bloggers. Here are five trick you can employ to stop theft of your content.
Google Alerts
Luckily for you honest bloggers, there are a number of tools you can use to see whether your content is being duplicated. One such tool is Google Alerts. The process of using this tool is also fairly simple.All you need to do is to visit the Google Alerts website and put in a piece of your article. You can then choose the types of websites that should be searched. Google will later contact you with the results that show if your content has been used without your permission. The best thing about Google Alerts is that you are free to choose how often to be notified.
Copyscape
Copyspace is one of the more powerful tools and is ideal for people who publish a lot of content. Using copyscape is easy as it only entails typing your website URL. Copyspace will then search the web and alert you on which sites are re-posting your content. You may have to pay something little, but it is definitely worth using.Check your Backlinks
Trackback notifications are a good tool for checking if your content is being stolen. For instance, if you have trackbacks setup in WordPress, Drupal or Movable Type, then you will be notified when someone links to you. You can also check your links in Google Webmaster Tools to see who has linked to you and copied your content.If there is a site that is linking to your site on a regular basis, then chances are that that site is copying some content from you. In order to use trackback notifications, just look at the feedback provided by your site (sent to your email). From this report you can check any site that seems suspicious to you.
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Add Links to your Content
It is important that you add links to your content. This is not only good for the search engines, it also means that if anyone steals your content, they may end up keeping the links to your site. Therefore, you will in the process get some free publicity from these links.When other readers see that the content was stolen, they will want to access the site where the original content came from. You can also install a piece of code on your website with a tool called Tynt.
Tynt can tell you how often people have copied a section of text from your website and also create a link to the original content.
Who Is Hosting This
Many blogger and webmasters have a contact page where you can contact them. If this is the site where your work has been duplicated, then you can respectively ask them to remove the content. Yes, there are some people who will actually ignore your request, but there are those who will obey.There are several steps you can take to force people to take down duplicated content. You can tell them that you will file a complaint against them if the article is not removed. Chances are that they will pull down the article as soon as possible.
If you request still falls on deaf years, then contact the website that hosts the site with duplicated content. You can easily find the information you need from who is hosting this. Type in the URL of the site that has duplicated your content and contact the hosting service that hosts that website.
You will find that hosting services are more efficient in removing duplicated content compared to the website owners. Some hosting services will even take down the entire site that has stolen your content.
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