Copyscape Results --- Good News???
A couple years ago, it appeared that an archive of around 200 articles that I had authored were accidentally published on an open website of one of the papers I used to write for. I say, "Open" website because the columns/articles were only, suppose to be published on the newspaper's pay/portal site where Google could not index them.
Shame of me for not going ahead and publishing them on my site first before releasing them but "who knew" they were going to be released/published on an open portal. Live and learn.
Needless to say, when I learned what had happened and that I had no doubt lost the index rights on the columns there was large amount of anxiety and depressing flying around.
Well --- I finally got around to joining Copyscape Premium and in running the 200 articles in question through Copyscape all of them but one came up "Zero" for plagiarism (highlight) detection.
Evidently --- if Copyscape is any indication, the columns in question were either never indexed "or" never released outside of a controlled access site where Google's spiders could crawl and index them. Correct me if I'm wrong (but please do it gently
) but it looks like these pieces were not compromised.
Of the one column/article that Copyscape indicated as having problems, out of 767 words 43 or 6% were highlighted my Copyscape. This particular column is rooted in a news story when US Airways flight 1549 ditched after hitting a flock of birds in Jan of 2009. At the time, I read everything I could find when the story broke then wrote a motivational and personal development story about pilot Chelsey Sullenberger.
Copyscape highlighted phrases like "Brace for impact, Crew and passengers," which I'm not too concerned about BUT a 22-word sentence was too close for comfort. Although I wrote the piece from memory, that one sentence concerns me to the point that I feel I should fix it as I don't want to ever come off as being something that I'm not.
My question to Warriors in the know --- respectable Warriors, not spinners or ripe-off artists is where do you draw the like concerning that Copyscape highlights. I would think that occasionally there is bound to be "some" phrases that show up highlighted but where does it get critical.
I guess I could ask, "what standards (percentages) will make to into eZineArticles.com but that isn't good enough. I'd like to know the opinion of marketers like Paul Uhl, Alexa Smith, John McCabe, etc have to say.
Respectfully submitted
Ernie Mitchell
Shame of me for not going ahead and publishing them on my site first before releasing them but "who knew" they were going to be released/published on an open portal. Live and learn.
Needless to say, when I learned what had happened and that I had no doubt lost the index rights on the columns there was large amount of anxiety and depressing flying around.
Well --- I finally got around to joining Copyscape Premium and in running the 200 articles in question through Copyscape all of them but one came up "Zero" for plagiarism (highlight) detection.
Evidently --- if Copyscape is any indication, the columns in question were either never indexed "or" never released outside of a controlled access site where Google's spiders could crawl and index them. Correct me if I'm wrong (but please do it gently
) but it looks like these pieces were not compromised. Of the one column/article that Copyscape indicated as having problems, out of 767 words 43 or 6% were highlighted my Copyscape. This particular column is rooted in a news story when US Airways flight 1549 ditched after hitting a flock of birds in Jan of 2009. At the time, I read everything I could find when the story broke then wrote a motivational and personal development story about pilot Chelsey Sullenberger.
Copyscape highlighted phrases like "Brace for impact, Crew and passengers," which I'm not too concerned about BUT a 22-word sentence was too close for comfort. Although I wrote the piece from memory, that one sentence concerns me to the point that I feel I should fix it as I don't want to ever come off as being something that I'm not.
My question to Warriors in the know --- respectable Warriors, not spinners or ripe-off artists is where do you draw the like concerning that Copyscape highlights. I would think that occasionally there is bound to be "some" phrases that show up highlighted but where does it get critical.
I guess I could ask, "what standards (percentages) will make to into eZineArticles.com but that isn't good enough. I'd like to know the opinion of marketers like Paul Uhl, Alexa Smith, John McCabe, etc have to say.
Respectfully submitted
Ernie Mitchell