Plagiarism and Promotion: Ideas and Suggestions

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Plagiarism and Promotion: Ideas and Suggestions

Posted on December 17th, 2008 in Online Writing by Michele Cameron Drew

Have you noticed that your page hits have dropped considerably? Have you wondered if your articles are being plagiarized? How you can create more traffic? My rant, with useful suggestions and additional reading list…

Although this article is somewhat a rant, it is designed to shed some light on some things that many of us are experiencing right now. The loss of page views and/or income and a lack of promotion ideas. This problem could be due to a number of things. Have you stopped promoting the urls of your articles? Older articles can be promoted in new ways to generate more hits(are you still using the same old social bookmarking?).

Newer articles still need to be promoted to maximize exposure, even when you have a current readership. The more crosslinks, backlinks and SEO links a page contains, the higher it will place in the search engines and the more hits you will see to your articles.

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Do you have a niche? Have you tried joining communities, social networks and forums related to that niche? Posting articles and opinions or helping other users in forums related to your niche is a great way to promote yourself and your articles. What about your blog? Do you have a blog? This is a great way to gain more exposure.

How about a writers’ group networking site, where you can all network and promote each others’ work? Similar to a social bookmarking site, but more in-depth, this type of site could be utilized for sharing all kinds of useful ideas and information.

On another note, recently, due to my name being within the text of one of my articles, plugging my own poem, I came across something not so lovely. There is a person out on the web that has been stealing work from a multitude of triond writers. I’m sure there are many others plagiarizing, but this individual has nearly 300 articles. Although I haven’t checked anywhere near all of them, I do recognize and have researched enough to know that at least 5% have been from triond and every single article that I checked was originally published here.

I ran a Google search on my name, which I do periodically. I have been doing this much more often since this realization. I came across my article “In Retrospect, the Blizzard of ‘78: 30 Years Later” posted under a different name with no byline and all of the links removed that relate back to me, including the poem “Starbird Hill” which inspired the writing of the article.

This person is highly active in promoting our articles all over the internet under his/her own website where they are copy/pasted verbatim and advertised using the second image in the article. They have changed the title, removed the byline and original links and used new tags, then pasted the text and images to their own website. This is plain and simple copyright infringement.

Today I have noted the fact that this person is using notsolong.com(similar to tinyurl), to shorten their urls and probably to disguise them, because they have realized that I am on to them, having been banned from several sites.

Every day I come across more links and every day I go to the social bookmarking website owners and ask to have this user banned from their respective systems. I have emailed triond and they assure me that they will be looking into this.

I will not provide the link to his/her website here, so as not to promote this person’s site in any way, but I will provide you with the address of their profile on the social bookmarking sites that I have found who have not yet removed this user, at the time of this writing.

I have signed up on some of these sites to watch what is going on and to promote my own articles there, so that there can be no mistake as to whom they belong, as well as commenting on several of his/her submissions with the correct links to the articles advising the other users of the site that this person is a thief.

On JEQQ and Daily News Info, I have linked the published list of the user, you might also check their upcoming links as well. You can also check out Propeller, Indian Bytes, Buzz , Care2.Net. Of course once you find the site, you can scroll through everything on it to check for your articles.

This has been taking up a lot of my time. I hope to be spending the next few days writing, instead of doing detective work and writing emails to have these losers banned. I do hope that triond really does look into this and has something done about it.

The point of this was to show all of you that our work is in fact being stolen, and the impact is that our traffic is being diverted elsewhere, probably so that this person can generate ad revenues on our work. In turn, the direct result of this is less hits / page views and less income for triond, which trickles down to us. People that are working this and similar scams are destroying triond and our opportunities.

My suggestions, until triond is able to put some kind of fix into place are to put a copyright stamp and/or a copyscape banner at the bottom of each and every article, as well as cross links to your other work.

Keep your chins up, keep writing and publishing and protect yourselves.

I wish you all more page views, better search engine placement, more notoriety and good fortune.

-Michele Cameron Drew

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28 Responses to “Plagiarism and Promotion: Ideas and Suggestions”

BC Doan
December 17th, 2008 at 5:21 am

Michele,

I spend a huge amount of time trying to get the website owners to remove my articles too! Every day I came across more…This is a tiring process, and very discouraging also.

Thank you for the mention of my article!
Jeoffrey Meister
December 17th, 2008 at 8:27 am

Super article, Michele. I’m very familiar with copyright laws, but several of these sites you have mentioned gives me new information. Thank you.
Reilley
December 17th, 2008 at 8:29 am

I was wondering why some poems that I had published elsewhere were still being cited by Triond as duplicate content even after I had removed them from where they were. they must be someplace else, dammit.
Francois Hagnere
December 17th, 2008 at 8:38 am

Thank you very much, Michele. Very informative. I will look into it rightaway !
Best regards,
François
Peter Cimino
December 17th, 2008 at 9:52 am

Nicley done as always. Your research and sharing of information is greatly appreciated. To be honest, this all makes me want to write books instead!!
The Quail
December 17th, 2008 at 10:11 am

Nicley done as always.
Glynis Smy
December 17th, 2008 at 10:46 am

Brilliant work! Thank you for your hard work! Your article is very valuable to us, you are a true Triond friend!
papaleng
December 17th, 2008 at 11:06 am

Thanks Michele for this very informative article and for the investigative job you’ve done just to check stolen articles from triond writers. Just keep your cool and just continue writing.
Louie Jerome
December 17th, 2008 at 11:07 am

So, you finally nailed him! Useful stuff.
Aardaerimus
December 17th, 2008 at 2:51 pm

Fantastic article, though a shame that it comes at such a high price.

Nothing stifles the creative spirit like having your precious time and energy wasted trying to put out the fires of licentious miscreants.

Your advice is sound. Take precautions, keep producing, and don’t lose heart.
goodselfme
December 17th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

Thank you, friend. Great infomation. Now everyone knows the truth about everything that has been said.
JoWo
December 17th, 2008 at 8:19 pm

Excellent article, Michele. I’ve started looking!
Lauren Axelrod
December 17th, 2008 at 9:27 pm

I am bookmarking this one Michelle.Thanks for the link, you’re the best!
Judy Sheldon
December 17th, 2008 at 10:02 pm

It is truly annoying to spend countless hours doing research on an article, editing then submitting only to have someone else take credit for it.

Thanks for the heads up and leg work on this one. We must watch one another’s backs.

God bless and take care.
lanne
December 17th, 2008 at 11:07 pm

Thanks for all your hard work. Its a shame that this person can`t find the time to do the work themselves.
eddiego65
December 18th, 2008 at 7:25 am

Great investigative work. Brilliant article. Let’s just hope that these rampant plagiarism would soon end.
writer122
December 18th, 2008 at 10:36 am

Great article and very good advise.
Mark Gordon Brown
December 18th, 2008 at 11:23 pm

GOOD WORK!
I have dial so doing all the investigating is way time consuming – but I truely appreciate you bringing to my attention a stollen link of mine, and wish you all the best in promoting yourself and others. After all we work best as a team.
shafi choudhury
December 20th, 2008 at 4:34 am

excellant article! I loved this! I absolutely hate it when our articles get plagiarized!
on review stream, I had written a review of my life and had submitted it there, but they didn’t approve it but cancel my account because they found another article of mine on another website!

but when I tried publishing the review here a few days ago, triond declined it and said that duplicate content has been published online! But when? I wrote it for reviewstream only and thats it! Maybe reviewstream stole it and used it somewhere else!

God I hate them!
Patrick Bernauw
December 29th, 2008 at 1:13 pm

Great article! Useful, helpful, and inspiring!… And with a warning too: unfortunately, there are thiefs everywhere!
nobert soloria bermosa
December 31st, 2008 at 4:28 am

nice post,everyday i am finding new sites who stole-copy/paste my articles and other trionders,it’s very tiring,triond admin should really do something concrete on this rampant stealing of articles by unscrupulous people. have happy new year somehow
Debra.
December 31st, 2008 at 10:28 pm

This is an excellent read, Michele! Don’t know how I could have missed it. This is one of those pages that you just have to “bookmark.” Thanks again Michele.

God bless
Morgana
January 20th, 2009 at 9:55 am

Thank you for the information. I’m still learning how to promote my work , but right now I just want to polish it before I begin to make myself known.
jo oliver
February 20th, 2009 at 11:32 pm

I see that many people are having problems with plagiarism. That is such a shame. When you spend so much time and effort on a submission, and then to have someone rip you off is just hearbreaking. Great article.
teddybear09
March 21st, 2009 at 12:19 am

Great advice. Keep it up.
Stephen Brno
April 25th, 2009 at 3:52 pm

hmmm, you know I never actually thought of it that way lol
irishpen
June 6th, 2009 at 3:44 pm

This was REALLY helpful…thanks!!
Joanne Olivieri
June 9th, 2009 at 3:17 pm

Great article. I have been a victim of plagiarism recently on my no longer active Today.com blog. They scraped my entire content daily. It was very frustrating and disheartening.