Protect your Web Content: The PlagSpotter Review
The plagiarism exists since forever but the advance of the Internet made it easier than ever before – the writers, bloggers and original content creators, together with those concerned with its best protection from stealers, the webmasters and SEO experts, know this best. They must not allow others copy and use their unique web content because of the serious implications this will have on their website reputation. Google is strictly against plagiarism and will penalize those who show or allow such behavior, and the persistent plagiarists are risking getting banned.
In order to stay on track on the content scrappers lurking their blogs and websites, the content creators should constantly monitor their web pages for duplicates. The market is full with lots of different tools and software for this purpose, but only few have deserved to be recommended for their best service – PlagSpotter is among them along with the popular Copyscape. This duplicate content checker allows webmasters and SEOs scan their webpages and get detailed reports about how much of the content was copied, linking to the websites that contain the specific excerpts. Bloggers can also track those who repost their original posts and forget to credit the author, mention their name or reference the source. The PlagSpotter gives them all more and better control over the content.
So, how does PlagSpotter work?
The PlagSpotter online duplicate content checking and monitoring tool automatically scans the submitted web page URLs to find their copies throughout the Internet. You can enter the link to the specific piece of content you want to check and click on the Find Copies button, and in only few minutes you’ll receive a detailed duplicate content report that will help you track down the websites that are stealing your original work. The report shows the percentage of matched content that was detected, highlighting the duplicated text sentence by sentence and listing all the external links that have used those specific excerpts.
The free version of PlagSpotter allows users to only check one web page at a time, while with the paid plans you can select more different pages and automatically monitor them for duplicates on a daily or weekly basis. You can choose when to receive email notifications of newly found matches and you can also customize the alerts to inform you only if the percentage of duplicate content is higher than a certain amount previously set by you. Smaller website owners can use this software to constantly track their whole web content.
In its goal to provide relevant and quality information to its users, Google is constantly working on improving its algorithms to better detect plagiarized content all over the Internet. Its latest Panda update panicked SEOs and webmasters everywhere lowering their websites rankings mostly because of such duplicate content issues. If you want to keep your reputation you should not only produce and publish solely unique and original works, but you should also always be one step ahead of the stealers, preventing the damage before it is too late. For additional protection and to warn others from stealing your content you can also embed the “Protected by PlagSpotter” badge on your website.
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