5 Useful Precautionary Tips You Should Know To Prevent Content Plagiarism

What happens if someone copies that idea of yours and don’t even give you the credit. Of course it isn’t fair. It hurts so much because you’re the one who put in all your time, effort and dedication to write something fresh and completely unique. In this era where an act of content plagiarism or closely imitating someone idea or sentence from his or her blog without authorization or by not giving the credit is common, protecting the originality of your work seems next to impossible.

Content Plagiarism is a big problem on the internet

Many businesses are not at all ashamed of Stealing/Duplicating of content from other website without realising “duplicate content penalty” consequences. To fight back against content duplication problems and related possible ambiguities, Google treat the websites with copied content over strict Google Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines and penalise them algorithmically or manually.

Here’s a video explaining how does Google handle duplicate content

John Mueller from Google clearly says “the practice of making your text more ‘unique’, using low-quality techniques like adding synonyms and related words is: probably more counter productive than actually helping your website.” If Google finds that your content is not unique then it classifies the website having THIN content, or MANIPULATIVE BOILER-PLATE or NEAR DUPLICATE ‘SPUN’ content as a result of violating Google’s website performance recommendations.

Practical Ways to Detect & Prevent Plagiarism

For all those who left wondering what they can do to protect the content from being plagiarized, here are few tips to get you started:

1. Add Personal touch to the blogs

Try to make your blog original and unique by giving personal touch. To add personal you can add your own personal experiences or examples of accidents that happened to you only.  For example, write a post about how you designed your blog, but describe your personal story, include pictures and share the problems you’ve encountered to make it harder for plagiarizing.

2. If possible, avoid writing short blog posts

You will be surely happy to know that Plagiarists fails to copy lengthy blogs, so to protect your blogs from plagiarism it is recommended that you make it a habit to write longer blogs.

3. Leave watermarks on your images

To stop any other website or anyone to use your photographs you should consider leaving a watermark on them with your blog name or address on the top of the photos. This is great if you are linked to websites like Flickr or PhotoBucket which people usually use to search for images. Adding watermarks is easily done in any photo editor; just don’t forget to choose the option medium to high ‘dpi’ before saving the image to preserve the quality of the picture.

4. Find the plagiarists of your work and contact the content thief

To find the content thief who stealed your original work, there are plethora of proven tricks like doing a content search on Google search engine where you can easily monitor duplicate links other than your original work re-used without your permission. Also, you can try these popular Online Tools To Detect Content Plagiarism to accurately detect copied content while noticing display results with percentage.

If your blog content has been stolen, contact the stealing website through email providing all the needed information to show that your blog is copy protected and to proof the content has been plagiarized. Ask them to either credit you properly linking back to your blog, or to remove the copied post from their website.

5. Activate Google Alerts

Google comes with a plagiarism monitoring system. By setting up the Google Alert tool on your website, you shall recieve an email on possible plagiarism of all your work available online. which runs a special algorithm that detects various websites having the keyword combinations similar to your content. With the help of Google Alerts, you can take necessary actions again content plagiarism whenever you receive a notification related to content stealing.

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