Been scrubbed? Say NO to plagiarism !

Hey FOlks,

It's been quite some time since I could drop in for a post, but here is something that needs very very important redressing! Plagiarism !

Plagiarism is and has been for quite some time, one of the hottest topics of debate on the internet.

Plagiarism is a serious offense, and believe it or not, if you have plagiarized content on your web site or blog, you sure are going to regret it!

First of all, plagiarized content will drive search engine AWAY from your site. This is because search engines like Google index the internet and update their website records very often. Read about indexing over here

Therefore when Google sees another website(say yours) that has the same content on it, then it will simply not display your website in the search listings or will decrease your listings significantly.

Why does this happen?

First of all your content is plagiarized, and whether your visitors know it or the original author knows it or not, YOU and Google know it! So it's wrong (ethically) to expect your site rankings to rise from plagiarism!

Secondly, if I do a Google search, and the first five listings are different websites with the same plagiarized content, I am not going to get ANY new/different information, or relevant content from the remaining four sites.So that wastes my time, irritates me and make me search again and again in futility. And then I give up all hope, and move to Yahoo or MSN !

This doesn't serve the search engine's purpose and it will destroy its entire ranking and trust system. A good search engine will relate and link content available on the internet with the few key/search words that you type in and display the results! Only a BAD search engine will show you repeat results, whether they are from the same site or others!

So you can be sure that Google or any other search engine will never encourage plagiarism at all! lest they will be wiped out by competitors!

Sometimes, it is possible in many cases, especially when contents feature topics of hot discussion, that two different web sites have plagiarized content by mistake, as in like a co incidence! If this is the case, the search engine will blotch out one of these sites and it could well be yours!

How can you avoid this?

Well, here comes the use and purpose of this post! Checking and guarding your work from plagiarism! You can use the services of www.copyscape.com for your plagiarism checking purposes. Even if you are a copywriter, then you will not be at a great loss to use copyscape as even if you pay for their checking services, it is dirt cheap at $0.17 per checking. I found copyscape to be the best article checker on the internet, and by experience, I feel copyscape is also accepted worldwide as an authority when it come to plagiarism checking and article checkers. Another article checker that I found which was pretty good was articlechecker. you can use the services of articlechecker from www.articlechecker.com . Articlechecker is not as strong as copyscape, but it well does the trick. It offers Google links for every plagiarized bit, so you know when and where it will be blotched out and for which relevant keywords the sites pop up in the searches. This is very useful and convenient as well! However, the intensity of the searching and checking was not as great as that in www.copyscape.com . Copyscape beats articlechecker in quality, but of course the catch is that you must pay for each check. However, articlechecker is free of cost! There is no payment involved and you do not even need a URL (as in your content need not already be published- again a very handy tool when it comes to website development and content uploading)

You probably might be a bit confused as to what article checking tool you must use and whether it is worth the money or effective enough.

Do not despair, because with the experience of developing content for more than 100 websites, I have figured this out all the way! Not only you can use copyscape for free, but also for an unlimited number of times!(This is mainly for people with unpublished content) Just create a temporary blog on www.blogger.com , and paste your work on it as the first post. Copy the post url and use it as your site on copyscape.com to check the status of your work- for free!!