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Plagiarise and you will be found out...
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
While doing a routine check on my Alexa stats, I decided to look at some of my blog's backlinks that Alexa lists. One of the sites listed had decided to use one of the articles I wrote and submitted to several article directories at some point in the past. The resource box at the bottom contained a link back to the LittleFish Web Design blog and it was here that Alexa found the backlink.
When I looked at the site, I saw my article but there was no resource box so it looked like the site owner had written the article him or herself. How rude!
There was no way of contacting the webmaster listed on the site, nor on any other site that was linked to and appeared to be owned by the same person.
So, I trotted over to allwhois, typed in the domain, found an e-mail address and typed a perfectly polite but firm e-mail asking them to reinstate my author information. I never did receive a reply, but a further check showed that my entire article has now been removed.
Another and admittedly easier way to check your content for plagiarism is to use Copyscape.
Message to people who copy other people's content and pass it off as their own..? Either reinstate the author's resourcebox or you will get found out far more often that you would have guessed at.
