Have you copied content? Solve it in a few steps –

Put yourself in the case that you have a great blog, with super interesting content that your readers love. The visits arrive, your content is shared and everything is happiness. Until you realize one day that someone is copying your content. This guide is designed so that you can identify step by step if you are suffering from content plagiarism, who is doing it and, most importantly, what to do.

What should I do if I detect that content is being plagiarized?

Plagiarize content It is something that unfortunately for some websites is the order of the day. It is obvious that search engines have tools to detect websites that are dedicated to this in the long run, but in the short term they can harm you.

What happens if a website that copies content index an article before you? Or even worse, what if the copied content ranks better than yours? In theory this should not happen, but in practice there have been cases where it has. Write down these steps and discover how you should proceed in case it happens to you!

1) Identify if they are copying your content.

To carry out this check, there are several tools. Here are some that you can check to see if they are really plagiarizing your content:

• Copyscape: This free tool is probably the best known within SEO to check if content has been copied. go to copyscape.com enter a URL where you think they may be copying content and it will show you other websites with the same content (or very similar to yours). Here we recommend you to check several URLs of yours periodically, for example articles that take a long time or have a high number of visits.
• Copy Sentry: Within Copyscape and in a more proactive way, you have to be alerted every time someone copies your content. This last tool is paid, but it has a very low cost.
• TinEye: In www.tineye.com you can identify if there are other websites that have copied your images and are using them on your website.
• Google Alerts: Another option to be alert if someone copies content from an article of yours is to copy and paste a piece of it in www.google.es/alerts In this way, whenever a “smart guy” appears to copy your content, as soon as Google Alerts appears, it will notify you.
• Google search: Another very simple and direct way is to paste a piece of your article and search for it on Google. Do other websites appear with exactly the same words?

2) How do I proceed if I detect plagiarism of content?

Alright, now we know that someone is stealing my items. And now that?

1. Record that content in an excel-type document. Is it always the same website? There is more? Is it just a copied article?
2. Report to Google: The best way to report to Google is directly report it to Google. Thanks to this google doc called Scraper Report, you will be able to inform Google directly that another website is “shooting” articles on you. The Scraper Report can be found at this link . This document (Scrap can be translated as “scrape”) has only three parts, fields to fill in.

• URL of your website where they are copying content.
• URL of the web that has your copied content.
• Google search results URL that demonstrates the problem (Here we must put that they are putting the copied content in search results).

3. In a complementary way inform the owner or owner of that page if any type of contact information appears and request the removal of that stolen content. If it doesn’t appear you can always try to find it with a . Try to approach it in a friendly way, they probably won’t pay much attention to you, but creating a typical email won’t take long, and who knows maybe you’ll solve the root problem.

This whole process takes some time between when you identify the problem and it ends up being solved, in any case they are Important actions to take that will help you defend against possible content stealers. Do you know of any other action to proceed if you detect that content plagiarism has occurred on your website? We read you in comments!