Plagiarism - Issue with plagiarism by a webmasterworld member
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A webmaster world members shows his concerns with paraphrasing of his contents by an authority site.
He says
"My wife and I have a merchant site that we've worked very hard on since 2004. We created it to sell our unique niche product. We have done a lot of research and my wife has written a lot of unique content. We are proud of what we have accomplished.
Life took a detour and for the past year and a half, we've pretty much let the site run on autopilot (have not added any new content or product or kept up with the industry). Fortunately, our site and reputation have not been damaged, and we have sold out of almost all of our merchandise.
We've recently begun working on the site again. An authority site has sprung up in our industry and is beating us in Google. Many of our articles have been devalued in Google. I started studying this new authority site and have discovered that much of it is a paraphrasing of our content. I've tried the Google quoted search and cannot turn anything up, but on manual searches of this and our site, there is not doubt they have copied our stuff.
I have a few questions about what I can do about this...
1. Is this Plagiarism?
2. Is there an easier way to detect this without having to manually finding it all myself?
3. Instead of, or in addition to following the traditional steps to getting the content removed, I'd like to post screenshots of my content and the plagiarized site to discredit them. I'm really upset about this. What are your thoughts? "
This thread has some very good replies from industry experts its worth the read.
He says
"My wife and I have a merchant site that we've worked very hard on since 2004. We created it to sell our unique niche product. We have done a lot of research and my wife has written a lot of unique content. We are proud of what we have accomplished.
Life took a detour and for the past year and a half, we've pretty much let the site run on autopilot (have not added any new content or product or kept up with the industry). Fortunately, our site and reputation have not been damaged, and we have sold out of almost all of our merchandise.
We've recently begun working on the site again. An authority site has sprung up in our industry and is beating us in Google. Many of our articles have been devalued in Google. I started studying this new authority site and have discovered that much of it is a paraphrasing of our content. I've tried the Google quoted search and cannot turn anything up, but on manual searches of this and our site, there is not doubt they have copied our stuff.
I have a few questions about what I can do about this...
1. Is this Plagiarism?
2. Is there an easier way to detect this without having to manually finding it all myself?
3. Instead of, or in addition to following the traditional steps to getting the content removed, I'd like to post screenshots of my content and the plagiarized site to discredit them. I'm really upset about this. What are your thoughts? "
This thread has some very good replies from industry experts its worth the read.
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3 Comments:
Interesting thread…my opinion is that plagiarism is an offense, using someone else's work or writing without given proper credit.
As stoutFiles said 'Little in this world is unique anymore; everything is derived from something else'. So one has to get back his work and try to bring him self no.1 in the industry.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal from many is research.
Of course, I always thought that was some sort of joke.
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