Plagiarism

[Deleted member 25872]

Plagiarism is one of the biggest challenges website owners face on their forum or blog every day, unfortunately. How do you tackle plagiarism? Content that has been copied from other websites can have huge consequences for your site's SEO ranking.

Share how you deal with this problem.

 

[Katrina]

Plagiarism is one of the biggest challenges website owners face on their forum or blog every day, unfortunately. How do you tackle plagiarism? Content that has been copied from other websites can have huge consequences for your site's SEO ranking.

Share how you deal with this problem.

Most laws in the United States allow for 20% of copyrighted material to be quoted and then you should give reference to the original source. At least that used to be the norm but I can't find my source so I fail LOL. It helps to also link to the original or something similar when possible.

 

[Deleted member 49125]

I'm still small so not sure if some of my content has been taken. I do post educational links but I also post personal writings & have a sticky to ask people to not share that content please. I've seen on some sites where you can't copy things, even articles cited, but I don't know how to do that or if it's worth one's time.

 

[Shannon Apple]

If they quote a news article, for example, they must link it, that's the rules. Deliberate plagiarism has always brought forum suspensions with it.

Besides, the Current Events forum is now hidden to the public. So the quoted and linked articles shouldn't affect SEO in any way. I had to make it private because some members couldn't play nice in there, and I didn't want them still reading political threads that they were banned from participating in. lol.

 

[Heatman]

This problem has been in existence for a long time now and it seems like there is no ending to it. Only if there is a software to automatically reject contents that are copied, then it would be great.

 

[Deleted member 50656]

This problem has been in existence for a long time now and it seems like there is no ending to it. Only if there is a software to automatically reject contents that are copied, then it would be great.

I use SmallSEOTool's plagiarism checker which I integrate into my WordPress dashboard. I find it really useful to spot-check blog articles. There's a few other commercial tools that I know exist too

 

[Heatman]

I use SmallSEOTool's plagiarism checker which I integrate into my WordPress dashboard. I find it really useful to spot-check blog articles. There's a few other commercial tools that I know exist too

I used to make use of the free version of this tool. It's quite good from my little experience with it.

 

[Page]

Aren't there a plugin that you can get for your forum, I mean that be cool and I know that IPB doesn't have it builtin or as a plugin.

 

[Deleted member 50656]

Aren't there a plugin that you can get for your forum, I mean that be cool and I know that IPB doesn't have it builtin or as a plugin.

I'm not sure something like that exists at present, or if it'd be totally valuable. Forum posts typically aren't huge factors in SEO ranking/impact so the only real harm from plagiarism on a forum is morals I guess. I could see this being useful for Xenportal / Xenblog plugins though

 

[Katrina]

I thought of this thread while I was searching out recipes for my new air fryer. I would come across blogs that had recipes and for some reason I'd see the same recipe posted again and again on different sites. It was frustrating for me because I was hoping for new ideas, not the same one over and over again. Now I don't know who had the original recipe and I wonder if the creator of that recipe has any claim for plagiarism off their blog?

 

[Deleted member 50656]

I thought of this thread while I was searching out recipes for my new air fryer. I would come across blogs that had recipes and for some reason I'd see the same recipe posted again and again on different sites. It was frustrating for me because I was hoping for new ideas, not the same one over and over again. Now I don't know who had the original recipe and I wonder if the creator of that recipe has any claim for plagiarism off their blog?

Ah I totally didn't think of that scenario, that must be really annoying. Unfortunately I don't think recipes come under intellectual property as its so hard to prove someone didn't just think of the recipe themselves, but its a real shame blogs are just copying and pasting recipes over from other sites. :/

 

[veeprho123]

Copyscape is a free plagiarism checker. The software lets you detect duplicate content and check if your text is original.