A Painless Plagiarism Solution

A crowded marketplace can lead to unethical webmasters using underhand techniques to get ahead of their competitors and online plagiarism is one of the easiest.

I had worked hard on the copy for my sales page at Watch Live Football (http://www.watchlivefootball.com), ensuring the copy was relevant to potential customers and contained keyword rich phrases to assist with search engine ranking.

Understandably, I was incensed when I found not one, but two websites selling a similar service had not just pinched a few key phrases here and there from my website, but had reproduced the entire text verbatim!

I found these offending websites by using Copyscape (http://www.copyscape.com) which is an invaluable, free tool, in the battle against online plagiarism.

It highlighted that my competitors had stolen 254 words from my sales copy despite there being a clear copyright logo at the foot of each page of my website. However, this alone does not prevent an unscrupulous webmaster and CTRL & C command in full flow.

Fortunately, dealing with plagiarism on the internet can be a straightforward process and incidents resolved quickly and amicably before any real