Plagiarism is becoming a very serious problem for bloggers. In fact, anyone can easily steal blog content and re-post on their blog without any permission. This is one of the biggest mistake happen by bloggers (especially newbies). because they aren't aware about plagiarism consequences.
Did you get your blog article is copied on other blogs ever? How do you feel? I know you will feel bad, but let's think out of the box, if you content getting copied that means scraper giving more value to your content.
Recently my friend (Rohan from Rohanchaubey.blogspot.com) blog’s content getting copied by someone, so he was little worried about that and trying to find ways to stop plagiarism. So that's why I decided to write article on plagiarism.
Well, copy pasting is natural thing, but if anyone publish your content on their blog without attribution, without credit back then we should take some action on that.
How to Find Out Who is Copying Your Blog Content
Find Duplicate Contents Using Google Search:
We have a easiest way to find content scrapers via Google search, All you have to do is, copy a unique sentence or phrase of your article and paste into Google search bar with double quotes. Now it will show you all results that similar to your sentence. if there is no sign of plagiarism means your content is safe.
Quicksprout is one of the most popular blog among bloggers, there is lot of articles copied on internet from quicksprout. as a example, see the screenshot below.
Find Duplicate Contents Using Plagiarism Tools:
To stop plagiarism there are several free online tools available on internet, they will help you to check your content is original or duplicate.
In my recent post I've shared some helpful tools to prevent your blog from being copied and detect plagiarism so this is the smart way to find plagiarism, check it out here:
Recommended Reading: Top 10 Free Online Plagiarism Checker Tools
Well, these are the tools to find out who is copying your blog contents and now we will see how to stop plagiarism.
How To Get Your Article Removed From Scraper's Site?
Contact To Blog Owner:
Taking legal action immediately it's not good option, Before you take some legal action on content scraper you should try another way to get your post down from his blog. The first step is try to contact the blog admin/author via contact page and politely request him to take down that post.
Taking legal action immediately it's not good option, Before you take some legal action on content scraper you should try another way to get your post down from his blog. The first step is try to contact the blog admin/author via contact page and politely request him to take down that post.
If there no contact box, get social media contacts from his blog and send private message to remove your article.
Report Google DMCA:
If you didn't get any response about your message, now it looks like we should take legal action. Now go to the Google DMCA Page and submit you legal request to remove copied content from Google search.
If you didn't get any response about your message, now it looks like we should take legal action. Now go to the Google DMCA Page and submit you legal request to remove copied content from Google search.
Read: How to Report DMCA to Remove Copied Content From Google Search.
Complain To Web Hosting Company:
Find out website details like web hosting company name, domain name etc. and send a complain to the web hosting company of that website using contact page. they will 100% respond your message and they will take action on that immediately.
To find out website details use this resources: whoishostingthis.com, who.is, semrush.com etc.
Report To Google Adsense DMCA:
If that content scraper uses Google adsense or any other advertising network on his site, then you can report to that advertising network to ban advertising on that site permanently.
So, what other techniques you have to prevent plagiarism? Share them with me in the comments. and don't forget to spread these words with your social media friends. :)
Find out website details like web hosting company name, domain name etc. and send a complain to the web hosting company of that website using contact page. they will 100% respond your message and they will take action on that immediately.
To find out website details use this resources: whoishostingthis.com, who.is, semrush.com etc.
Report To Google Adsense DMCA:
If that content scraper uses Google adsense or any other advertising network on his site, then you can report to that advertising network to ban advertising on that site permanently.
Conclusion
Well, I hope this tips will help you to fight against plagiarism. If blog owner removed your content from his blog, it’s fine else we must have to take some legal actions.
So, what other techniques you have to prevent plagiarism? Share them with me in the comments. and don't forget to spread these words with your social media friends. :)
