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Monday, September 1, 2008

Protect Your Articles

One of the most irritating issues that copywriters come across with almost on a daily basis is plagiarism. Even if you create original content and post it on your site or blog and someday pass it off to some editor as a sample copy, there will be instances when that original article will come out with many hits on a plagiarism software(not including your site). And nothing irritates a copywriter more than being branded as a plagiarist.

One way of protecting articles from being duplicated or copied is by putting them through anti-plagiarism software such as copyscape.com. For a small fee, your original articles will be protected from being copied and will branded as original based on the "scan" it performs for submitted URLs that the articles are on.

The only danger though is that if you use copyscape to protect articles that you intend to sell, the method can sometimes get back at you. Using copyscape requires that you upload the articles on a website or to your blog so you can have it "scanned". And if you don't work fast enough and Google indexes (Google does this process very fast) your site before you are done with the process, the articles will still come out of searches even if you remove them from your blog or site. Eventually, your client will think its still a duplicate of some article published online.

But despite this small problem which happens only in very few instances, these kind of software or websites really do help copywriters protect their work from the very persons that they are sometimes irritatingly accused of being so.

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