Comments on: Can copyscape passed articles help you in becoming a problogger ?

By: fran

fran — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 06:32:20 +0000

As far as Copyscape’s role goes, I love it as a service but it was not designed for this and neither was Bitscan (bitscan.com). Bitscan *might* be a little better at detecting this kind of infringement but I have not tested that.

By: fran

fran — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 06:27:11 +0000

There is a reason that spammers don’t use this software to become a “pro blogger” but use it to generate thousands and thousands of sites, it is because the odds of it working are so slim they have to throw out countless sites just to have a chance.

If it were as easy as “copy, spin and post” we’d have a LOT fewer spam blogs out there.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:54:38 +0000

I would like to recommend a FREE service similar to copyscape, it is http://www.percentdupe.com/

By: Zac Davis

Zac Davis — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:41:01 +0000

I agree with you. I also hate people who use those article spinners and report every single website that uses them to Google. As a freelance writer, article spinners steal work from (me) somewhat, and that’s slightly ticks me off. I also agree that CopyScape isn’t all that great. It’s easily fooled.

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:59:13 +0000

I responded that Google is smarter and detects copying in a variety of ways which spammers still cannot understand completely. Yes, we see hundreds of SERPs dominated by spammers, but that pales in comparison to the billions of pages out there.

Besides, if making money is the only aim, evil can succeed anywhere – even in places other than blogging.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:41:45 +0000

The first question is what can you do if you find someone spinning your content in such a manner? It’s easy actually. Since the content is clearly based upon your work and copyright law only gives the copyright owner the right to permit derivative works, the new work, even though not identical, is still very likely an infringement. Thus, you can report the site as an infringement by filing a DMCA notice (or other relevant notice) against the host or the search engines.

Essentially, you can take the same steps that you would take for verbatim copying, unless the “spinning” were so severe as to be unrecognizable (and likely, at that point, gibberish).

But as you pointed out, simply passing Copyscape does NOT guarantee that you will either A) Fool the search engines or B) Fool human visitors. Copyscape is a tool, albeit a powerful one, but there are things beyond its scope. I know well that Google has tools for detecting such spun articles and it routinely penalizes sites it thinks might be spammy.

If it were as easy as “copy, spin and post” we’d have a LOT fewer spam blogs out there…

By: Mike Harmon

Mike Harmon — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:00:16 +0000

Well said