
This is a guest post by Nick Stewart who is a Website Traffic Expert. On his blog 'Nick's Traffic Tricks' he shares valuable tips, ideas and resources that can help increase traffic to a website or a blog. In this post he shares his expertise on how one can deal with one of the most annoying practise called: Plagiarism.
Online plagiarism has become a problem for many bloggers and there are many excellent articles on how to tackle this growing issue.
But there are significant problems with tracking down people who copy your content including:
- You are not aware of all the places that copy your content. Sites like copyscape are helpful but you won't find all of them.
- When you find a site that has copied your content it is often difficult to find contact information for the site owner. This is especially true when the site has a private registration.
- When you contact the owner of a site there is no guarantee that they will comply with your request to remove the copied content.
- If the site owner does not agree to remove the content there is often little you can legally do if the website is hosted in another country.
And pursuing people who plagiarize can be detrimental to your business because you spend precious time chasing content copiers instead of doing productive things like: creating new content for your blog, doing market research, interacting with your website's visitors, etc.
Worse yet, if you spend all of your time focused on how people are ripping off your content you are not going to be motivated to generate new content.
A clever way to deal with online plagiarism
I recommend not worrying about who is copying your content. Instead you should look at online plagiarism as an opportunity to build back links, rank higher in the search engines, and get more traffic.
You do this by having each new post you publish include 3 links to other posts that you have published. The links should be interspersed in your text and relevant to the topic of the post.
Then when someone copies your content you will get 3 back links to your site. And more back links means your site ranks higher in Google. Learn more about fast back link building.
(Notice the link above? It's a back link to my site and if someone copies this post I will get more back links.)
Also, when someone reads the copied post they will likely click on the links and go to your website.
What if they copy my content and remove my links?
People want their copied content to look legitimate so they use software which automatically copies everything in the post including: images, links, and formatting. So your links will most likely stay intact.
So quit worrying about who is copying you content and use it as a chance to get some back links.
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For more insightful articles by Nick Stewart, you can visit his blog: Nick's Traffic Tricks. You can also follow him on Twitter or join his Facebook page.
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Nice tips...good work.