I've Been Plagiarized Again!
When I posted Make Raccoon Mobsite Password Protected, I checked on my technorati account if it was automatically pinged. I am aware that technorati is having their maintenance again, fans were gone again. Manual pinging is a regular habit after each article posting. Anyway, I noticed that I have an additional technorati authority.
When I checked on the link, the site had copied the whole post including my signature “glitch” at the end of the post. This was the third time I experienced copyblogging of my blog contents. But this time, I think this is sort of what other bloggers called as “auto content”… instant article from feed subscription.
Correct me if I’m wrong, I believe copying a part of the post is ok provided that the site linked back to the source site. I always do that for justification or additional information on my post, it doesn’t matter if its a dofollow or nofollow link. For me, linking back is showing respect to the intellectual property of the original writer.
I felt sad and angry at the same time, I commented to that site to delete my copied article on their site. Good thing that they’ve already deleted it. Plagiarism is a crime, I don’t want to be a victim again for the nth time. I will start using copyscape banner 
again for easy checking. Actually, I forgot to place the banner when I moved to my own domain. Lesson learned again from blogging, I hope copybloggers will soon realize that the site they’ve copied will be penalized by Google and other search engine for duplicate contents. There is such thing as karma…
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is this copyscape banner really effective? hopefully kasi i also use it in both my blogs. mabuti naman they deleted that blog, we also get a lot of those auto content ping backs in the community blogs that am editing but i dont really do something about it. next time i will ask them to delete our posts, too. how are you na?
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Hi, kenks. The banner works as a warning to copybloggers and by clicking it, you can check if your recent posts have been copied instanly, just like what happened to me. i make it a habit now on checking copyscape every post I make.
Hi Glitch – problem is, I once got kicked off Google after someone copied my post then reproted ME to Google! Be careful, CopyScape could backfire. I’d like to try it but I’m wondering if it will get me into more trouble.
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ah ganun ba yun? hahaha, thanks for explaining this to me.
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Dave, I saw that you have a PR4 blog. You can explained it to Google and proved it by showing your feeds. I guess, they have ways on proving that even if some copybloggers reported you. I don’t think copyscape will get you into trouble but protect your blog in a way.
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Well, I also being the victim of plagiarism after found out one of my post have been copied by other entrecard member! He/She must be blind or very dare to do that as it will drive them to get banned from entrecard.
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That’s really sad to know, plagiarism is rampant to blogosphere. Did you inform the copyblogger or do anything to resolve it?
Yes I am, I’ve send message through entrecard messaging system and he’s agreed to take down the copied words today.
Wow! That’s the true spirit.
Lets just hope he have “word of honor”.
Plagiarism is a crime but there are so many duplicate content on the net. Many posts end up being rearranged and the content is expressed with a personal touch and style.
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First off, I have to say that the Copyscape banner, nor any other kind of image placed on your site, is likely to be much of a deterrence to the worst of the bad guys. They are most likely scraping your content from your RSS feed and never even see their site. It might deter some human plagiarists, but likely will not scare away these types of bad guys.
If you want, you can email me the URLs involved and I’ll have a look at them to determine the best way to get the content removed. There are many strategies that can be employed.
Just let me know if I can help and I will gladly do what I can!
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you know today while I was checking googling about my blog, there’s this one particular result that pop out on the result page.. i thought wow.. my blog was featured at this site. It’s actually about my business site, so it got me thinking that maybe they found my site, like my design and then featured it… but when I check on it, it’s the exact post I have..
i was so mad.. this reminds me too.. i need to send those people a message about stealing my post..
shame shame shame…
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Vhiel, that’s sad to know. I guess, letting them know that we’re aware that we’ve been plagiarized somehow made them to remove the copied post. Otherwise, Big G will penalize us.
Jonathan, nice to know that there are like you in the blogosphere who are willing to help.
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