Biggest problem today website owners face is the problem with plagiarism of their quality contents. There are enough lazy people coming online or already on the web who never want to write anything but just steal contents from other sites and create pages or websites as if it were their own. There are lot of good and effective ways to protect content online.

Bloggers are the major group affected by online plagiarism. Especially with the rise of RSS, atom and other feeds ways to plagiarize are becoming increasingly easier. Rss scraping a new way of stealing where they just take your rss feeds and scrap content from it. There are some effective ways to stop this. Easiest way is to add a digital footprint something similar to what they use in images.

You can create some random characters and add them to feeds. You can actually hide those random characters and if someone steals your content its easy to identify them by using Google search or other effective online search methods. Feedburner is a good tool to detect online plagiarism. According to feedburner website " FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. Our Web-based tools help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web.

FeedBurner also offers the largest feed and blog advertising network that brings together an unprecedented caliber of content aggregated from the world’s most recognized media companies"

You can see everyone who subscribed to your blog and other useful tools inside feed burner will help you detect rss scraping. You can use Google alerts an online tool from Google that will automate your plagiarism checks. You can subscribe for Google alerts here: https://www.google.com/alerts

A simple Google search can help detect online plagiarism. Just take a phrase anywhere from content enclose it in double quotes and search it in Google. You will be able to detect copies that Google has indexed. This is the traditional and most effective way. Sites like copyscape.com uses this technology so if you are ready to spend some bucks to detect duplicates then you can try copyscape.com. Remember you can do what copyscape is doing for totally free.

There are more methods to detect which i will discuss later in a different blog post.

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