Comments on: Plagiarism and Blogging

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Sat, 13 May 2006 17:59:13 +0000

>I think that it is the 200-500 visitor per day blog

I write for a blog that gets several thousand uniques per day, and we’ve just been ripped several times by another site – I only found it because their article came back at me in my news feed! (”Hmm, this looks familiar” I thought)

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iRevenue.Net WebzBlog » Fresh News from ProBlogger.Net — Thu, 11 May 2006 02:01:45 +0000

[...] Plagiarism and Blogging [...]

By: DRMPro

DRMPro — Tue, 09 May 2006 18:33:12 +0000

Anyone who copies all their content from other sites would be immediately ostracized by the internet community.
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By: Roman

Roman — Tue, 09 May 2006 17:29:41 +0000

Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken

I understand that plagiarism is bad, but it happens everywhere not only online. I don’t think there is a lot you can do, it will be a constant war. Instead of wasting efforts, why don’t you put them in one thing you can do:

Become about average blog, get into technorati top 100! Be happy that your content is stolen, that means it has some value…

By: maxpower

maxpower — Tue, 09 May 2006 15:04:05 +0000

Jonathan (of plagiarism today) helped me when my work was plagiarised. He has lots of good advice, and his articles are well written and researched.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 09 May 2006 13:08:32 +0000

This is a big fear of mine, as I put my articles out on a few sites for publicity purposes (such as ezine articles). While I don’t get a ton of traffic at the moment, I usually do a spot check to see where my articles are showing up to make sure the resource box is intact.

By: WhyMyBlogStinks

WhyMyBlogStinks — Tue, 09 May 2006 13:04:42 +0000

People need to give credit where credit is due. I am more than happy to link back to articles that have inspired me. I never copy and paste other people’s content unless I put it in quotations and leave a link to where I got it exactly. I don’t see why others can’t do the same. It isn’t hurting your blog any to link to your sources.

By: tom

tom — Tue, 09 May 2006 11:55:42 +0000

Its an interesting article with unique topic of discussion. I think its the number of visitors on your blog that runs the risk of being plagiarized. And if u r facing such problem then u may find solution in search engines as they searches the content around the web. Hope this may come to your rescue!

By: Eric Giguere

Eric Giguere — Tue, 09 May 2006 10:46:57 +0000

Or do what I do and make sure that each of your blog posts links back to your site. Lord knows I get copied by a lot of AdSense Parrots; the least they can do is give me a few juicy links back!

By: Jacopo Gonzales

Jacopo Gonzales — Tue, 09 May 2006 07:18:55 +0000

In case some of you are worried about plagiarism and ctrl+c ctrl+v activity, I suggest you to use http://www.copyscape.com, a search engine that searches for copies of your content around the web.

Cool and free to use!

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 09 May 2006 06:24:59 +0000

This is an excellent article, and a very interesting topic.

I think that the quote you have selected from the piece really hits the true heart of the problem (or potential problems.) It is not the Technorati Top 100 whose content is easily stolen. Take for example the AmBlogger fiasco. Many readers of ProBlogger were quick to recognize and nearly castrate Vince Chan; and his crime was not of content but of design (which could be considered content.)

I think that it is the 200-500 visitor per day blog that runs the risk of being plagiarized. I run two blogs in the “magic middle,” and while neither are popular enough yet to have their content stolen I can see it as a possible problem. The real problem is that with the continually exponential growth of the blogosphere there is such a small margin for finding this type of thing. For example, if someone were to cut and paste a post from The Modern Guy, there is a good chance that it would not easily be seen by any of my readers, unless of course it was done by another mid-sized blog.

But then again, even with the size of the blogosphere there are still very clear niches. I would say that with my other site, Film School Rejects, there is less of a chance for plagiarism. Why, you ask? Because the average blog reader that reads FSR is very likely to also read dozens of other movie related blogs. The potential for someone to pick up on copied content thus increases…

Alright, now that I have somewhat contradicted myself, I will stop… Continue on…