CopyGator Polices your Blog Content, Keeps Plagiarists at Bay

On 26 Jan 2009

If your blog is popular enough, chances are that someone out there will steal your content and use it for their own gain. Trying to precisely establish who is stealing what from your blog, and do it all on your own, would be a monumental task that you will have little to no chance of accomplishing. Your chances of success will increase considerably if you use an automated tool for this, such as CopyGator.

Perhaps “steal” is a much too harsh word to use in this context, perhaps quote would be more appropriate. Well, with CopyGator you can easily find out exactly who has quoted your content, as well as find out which blogs out there feature similar content to the one posted on your blog about (roughly similar or exactly similar).

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“This is a free service designed to monitor your RSS feed and find where your content has been republished in the blogosphere. We automatically notify you when a new post of yours is copied to another feed, we also build an overview page you can view to see how/when/where your content is being duplicated, quoted or plagiarized. This is an entirely free service,” says CopyGator.

At the current moment CopyGator is keeping a close eye on more than 2.2 million RSS feeds, each of them outing out an estimate 500K of posts each day. Interested in quickly finding out if someone has been taking advantage of your work? Just type in your blog’s URL and click “show me” – this is the simplest means of employing CopyGator. Alternatively, you could instruct CopyGator to monitor a specific feed – which can prove to be handy if you are suspecting a certain somebody of copycatting your blog content. You can also add a CopyGator image badge to your blog – the badge will turn red if CopyGator detects your content on other blogs.

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