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How to stop plagiarism

by Andy Money
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Found this earlier today, great blog post on how to stop people from stealing your web content.

Stop Plagiarism in 3 Easy Steps | Internet Marketing Strategy: Conversation Marketing
#plagiarism #stop
  • Profile picture of the author Eric Lorence
    That is an excellent tip!

    Just think of the variations or options for the "image"!
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  • Profile picture of the author Andy Fletcher
    Don't forget to make the image a link back to your blog for extra SEO power.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mohsin Rasool
    Thanks for sharing.
    LOL it is funny but excellent tip!
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  • Profile picture of the author Amy Bass
    What a great idea! I loved the image he used.
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  • Profile picture of the author wayfarer
    Funny, but completely useless against anyone that has even half of a clue. Unfortunately, if you don't want your stuff to be copied, you are better off just never posting it online
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    • Profile picture of the author Eric Lorence
      Originally Posted by wayfarer View Post

      Funny, but completely useless against anyone that has even half of a clue. Unfortunately, if you don't want your stuff to be copied, you are better off just never posting it online
      It's well known how many people will simply copy/paste directly to there blogs, it's more common than you think.

      Even many scraper bots will grab the image while creating their cloned html pages.

      Best!
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      • Profile picture of the author wayfarer
        Originally Posted by Eric Lorence View Post

        It's well known how many people will simply copy/paste directly to there blogs, it's more common than you think.

        Even many scraper bots will grab the image while creating their cloned html pages.

        Best!
        I'm sure it is fairly common, all I was pointing out is that it won't work against someone who knows what they are doing.

        As far as a data miner, or content scraper goes, it just depends on whether it is set up to to take only the html, or to exclude certain tags, or whatever. Another thing to consider is the paths in the image tags. On Wordpress, all paths are absolute by default, or prefixed by the URI of the website, but this isn't the norm on most websites, which usually use relative paths (/path/to/image.jpg).

        Although I think it would usually be a wasted effort, if there is another website that is a habitual offender against your blog, it would definitely be a funny prank, and possibly deter them from doing it again, if they're not too bright.
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  • Profile picture of the author zigstonk
    Excellent post...and I'm trying it for entertainment value!
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      anyone that has even half of a clue
      Those who have half a clue would know how to write their own copy rather than steal it.

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  • Profile picture of the author Jon Alexander
    most people wouldn't copy and paste the html - its the content they want. So that suggests the trick wouldn't be very effective. Still amusing, if it works, of course.
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    • Profile picture of the author dwshoup
      Originally Posted by Jon Alexander View Post

      most people wouldn't copy and paste the html - its the content they want. So that suggests the trick wouldn't be very effective. Still amusing, if it works, of course.
      I read the comments as well and his whole idea was to get the people that were not smart enough to get around this.

      The point of this trick is just to expose the idiots for what they are.
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    • Profile picture of the author Scott Burton
      Originally Posted by Jon Alexander View Post

      most people wouldn't copy and paste the html - its the content they want. So that suggests the trick wouldn't be very effective. Still amusing, if it works, of course.
      In most cases, if you highlight the post and copy it (Ctrl-C or Edit-> Copy) it would grab the formatting as well (which would include image tags within the selection) so if you pasted to MS Word, or into most WYSIWYG editors, the tag would quietly sit there until the image was changed, at which point it would become a lot more noticeable.
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  • Profile picture of the author justthinking
    Nice idea. It really gets under my skin when some one steals my content from my site word for word. It happens all the time. I usually send them a cease letter based on many different reasons.
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  • Profile picture of the author WealthBluePrint
    good resource, i've often wondered if those people who sell articles for so much per so many words are just copying them and sending them to others for money
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