How do i know if someone has copied content from my website?

How do I know if someone has copied content from my website. Is there a some kind of plugin that can be installed or some software that works automatically. Please help members.

 

Use copyscape.com

 

Yes, copyscape is great. A completely different problem, however, is: how do you prove that yours is the original and the other is the copy.

This is something for which I haven't found an answer yet.

Regards

 

You can use The Internet Archive to prove that the content appeared earlier on your web site through the Wayback Machine. Sometimes, however, the Wayback Machine doesn't work. So I would also suggest keeping dated text documents and/or pdf files of your web site content on your computer as proof of ownership. If possible, upload the dated files on your server or email them to yourself.

 

Once I saw someone using a software which would immediately put up an alert to the person that he has copied the content from the x site. It will also immediately put a simultaneous alert to the person from whose site the content has been copied. Anyone aware of such a system?

 

I haven't heard of it but another thing I forgot is google alerts. You can set up alerts for some phrases taken from your content so you'd know if ever somebody ripped you.

 

How do we set up such alerts in Google?

 

Go to http://www.google.com/alerts and set up alerts. You would need to have a gmail account, by the way.

 

www.articlechecker.com works fine to identify duplicate content, but not always.

 

Great. I will set up the alerts at Google and keep you guys updated on how well it works for me.

Still if anyone comes across that auto software of detecting duplicate content, please do share with all of us here at DP

 

Yeah - that's a good idea, tnx a lot for that one!

Regards

 

You're welcome. And I hope you won't ever need it (hope nobody rips your content off. lol)

 

Copyscape is actually worthless if you really care about who's stealing your content. A lot of stuff will pass copyscape and still be an illegal rewrite of your work (essentially just changing some words around). Use unique phrases in your articles that really couldn't be effectively rephrased in any way, and set up an alert for them so you're notified any time they appear in the search indexes (you can do the same for article titles). If something comes up, look at it and see if it's stolen or not in some way.

 

Thanks Jenn. That was definitely a good info..

 

no, if you want to check.. just write down allintitle:"xxxx". you just need to remember all the written in your headline content. the paste the headline to change the "xxxx". so you can search who and who already stole your content..

 

A lot of thieves are smart enough to change the title....

 

Google Search is the best source for detection infrigement.

Take a unique snippet of text (32 words or less) and type into Google - then set Google Alert for new listings to be sent to your email address.

... with your personal information page you can manage unlimited Alerts.

 

When you've found someone stealing your content, what can you do? Unless you're prepared to get an intellectual-property lawyer involved, is there a way to make the thief take down the duplicate material?

 

Report them to their host.

Report them to the major search engines.

Report them to their advertisers.

 

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