Check your work for plagiarism to make sure you are not being copied

Plagiarism is defined as "the wrongful appropriation of someone Else's thoughts or ideas as your own". It means copying the text and re- publishing it to pass it off as your own content.

Plagiarism is very common problem and it is as old as print itself. With the internet it has gained more prominences and has reached a higher scale. Now it only takes a couple to seconds to copy the work of someone else and use it as your own. The Education week Newspaper had conducted a survey in which it was discovered that : 54% of students said that they plagiarized from the internet to do their homework. The survey also discovered an interesting fact that : 47% of the questioned students were sure that their teachers ignore the fact that the students are cheating.

Many people think that the chances of them getting caught for plagiarism is minimal as web provides them with anonymity so it will not be discovered. some people have this perception that all the content written online is of public domain, and they are free to use it as they wish or need.

Now if you are a website owner, plagiarism is your enemy and the copying of your content can be a problem. Firstly, Google doesn't like duplicated content, said this if your article is available on multiple sites then your search rankings suffer. Secondly, if your article is available on other sites people will not have a reason to visit your site and view the same content.

Therefore its a good idea to keep a track that your written content is not being plagiarized on other sites.

How can you do it? There are various online tools that come to your rescue for this problem. For example, you can check out unplag.com , it is a plagiarism detection engine. All you have to do is upload your text there and it will scan over 16 billion web pages to find out copies of the text that you uploaded. They have partnered with Google and bling to carry out this huge scale of scan check.

Batch scanning of several files at the same time is also supported by Unplag and a report is provided for each of the document. They even have an afflicted program wherein you can earn about 15 to 30 percent commission for every sale. Moreover Unplag is testing a new WordPress plug in that will make checking very easy for the bloggers. Due to user demand they are also coming up with new check methods - URL check and website check.

Any sort of copied content can badly hurt your brand reputation, therefore it is adviceble that you check your content for originality regardless of the tool that you may choose.

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