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copyscape passed content?

by macmani
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there are people selling article services as copyscape passed after converting them to unicode as copyscape does not detect it if plagiarized. however, it looks the same like ascii characters, cant tell difference and it passes copyscape.

i found this tool for anyone who wants to check if this has happend to their outsourced article. make use of it. it can tell if your articles are in unicode or ascii. there are many on WF who dont know this yet.

Full Story: Copyscape is Not Enough

Software: Text Encoding Detector
#content #copyscape #passed
  • Profile picture of the author entrepreneurjay
    Good article thanks you have to watch who you buy your services through nowadays.

    Cut out the middleman and do it yourself.

    Like the old saying goes if you want something done right do it yourself!
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  • Profile picture of the author infoway
    Quiet informative article. A must go through for each person hiring freelance content writer. With the advancement of technology, it has become pretty easier for an tech expert person encoding plagiarized article to Unicode UTF 8 format. Producing no SEO results. A total Black hat SEO method !
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  • Profile picture of the author YasirYar
    Hi macmani,

    That's a pretty nifty trick you have there! I myself am not familiar with that even though I outsource tons of articles online. Will read the guide and use the free tool. Thanks for sharing it!
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  • Profile picture of the author NddS777
    Hmm, can't say that I'm surprised. It probably has something to do with outsourcing to low-cost writers.
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  • Profile picture of the author carnal
    I have always suspected Copyscape is not 100% safe. Thanks for posting about Text Encoding Detector. I will have a look.
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  • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
    The 'Text Encoding Detector' is a simplistic red herring generator. Stick any kind of foreign (non King's English) character in a string and you'll get a positive - try pasting some text from Word that includes curly quotes or true apostrophes in their 'detector' and see what happens.

    The article referenced is based on two assumptions: #1, that the article supplier did in fact run the article through Copyscape. Note that the author did not state that THEY THEMSELVES did - just that the supplier said that it had been done. #2, that the 'UTF8 to ASCII' conversion choked because of some kind of nefarious hidden characters, not because of a malfunction in their converter.

    This kind of article comes from someone who doesn't know the first thing about character encoding and thinks they've made a monumental discovery.

    Do you really think Copyscape doesn't have the first clue about character encoding?
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  • Profile picture of the author jessmonsilva
    I actually saw this a couple days ago with an article spinner software that was being advertised. It was basically the same article but they were substituting it with the special characters instead of using synynyms or the like. Apparently that was the way they were getting around copyscape, so it's definitely getting around
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Well, you CAN convert unicode to ascii, and check THAT. The alphabet, numbers, and initial special characters, would convert back to ascii smoothly. Frankly, I am surprised that copyscape doesn't do that. ALSO, what happens if two convert to the same unicode page?

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  • Profile picture of the author ElaineBrown
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    Good to know. One more thing to pay attention to, though...
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  • Profile picture of the author Coach Comeback
    Hilarious! There is an actual WSO that launched today selling the software to do this exact same thing!

    http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...ter-2-0-a.html
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  • Profile picture of the author owais211
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    wow Fantastic information there...i didn't know of such a thing
    Thank you!
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    • Profile picture of the author substance
      I think the owner of iWRITER should seriously note this.

      I use their service often and sometimes wonder whether it really is unique content without any plagiarism . :rolleyes:
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      • Profile picture of the author GlenH
        I have a Copyscape account, and I put in one 'real' article and found dozens of instances of that article all over the net.

        I then put in the an identical article, except this time the article was embedded with 'unicode' and Copyscape ID'd the article is as an 'original' article (no copies anywhere on the net)

        Side by side, a human reader could not tell the difference.

        So it seems 'unicode' embedded articles can fool Copyscape
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  • Profile picture of the author DPM70
    Just write your own articles - problem solved. Until others start lifting, spinning, translating and unicoding your stuff; then you're stuffed. If your blog or website gets to that critical mass where it starts getting a bit of love from Google, then you'll be alright, usually. Of course, with authorship and markup from fakees you can't even trust that system properly.

    All you can do is consistently produce great, original content. And hit your readership with that on your own list.
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    • Profile picture of the author bigcaveman
      Just because an article passes copyscape does not mean its original, or even a good article. Copyscape is just another tool you can use, but an original quality article will always trump a cheap rewrite.

      If the article is for your personal website, your best bet is to write it yourself or hire a good write to do the work.
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  • Profile picture of the author seobro
    Thanks for the post, and yes - this is occurring. Sadly, some people do understand that you get that for which you pay. I try to write my own. However, I sometimes use local college students to write for me. They know the material and are experts, but they also need extra money.

    Try to avoid articles that are being written on FIVERR or similar services. Most of those are written by non native speakers and sound funny to me. Spelling is spot on. However, there are many grammar errors. Basically, they will kill any chances you have of selling your product to a customer. Perhaps they were written by a person in a 7-11 earning minimum wage.
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  • Profile picture of the author GlenH
    Originally Posted by macmani View Post

    there are people selling article services as copyscape passed after converting them to unicode as copyscape does not detect it if plagiarized. however, it looks the same like ascii characters, cant tell difference and it passes copyscape.

    i found this tool for anyone who wants to check if this has happend to their outsourced article. make use of it. it can tell if your articles are in unicode or ascii. there are many on WF who dont know this yet.

    Full Story: Copyscape is Not Enough

    Software: Text Encoding Detector
    I'm not really clear on this, so can anyone tell me the ramifications if articles do have embedded hidden ascii (unicode) characters.

    Will Google detect these types of articles and de-index them or something
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    • Profile picture of the author ksummers
      Originally Posted by GlenH View Post

      I'm not really clear on this, so can anyone tell me the ramifications if articles do have embedded hidden ascii (unicode) characters.

      Will Google detect these types of articles and de-index them or something
      I got two sites entirely deindexed and reconsideration requests denied after using encoded text ( which I had purchased and didn't realise it was encoded). Even after I removed the content Google refused to reindex my sites.
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    Didnt know we could that, thanks for the info mate
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  • Profile picture of the author lorrainesmithills
    I think this is symptomatic of cheaper and cheaper writing rates. I find it unbelievable that people are still buying articles at one or two dollars each and expecting something they can use.
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