How to Use Google Alerts to Find Plagiarized Versions of Your Articles on the Internet

Plagiarism has increased to alarming rates as a result of people searching for content to add on their blogs and websites. More and more people have discovered the power of article marketing to drive traffic to their websites. However, many people don't want to put in the time and work that it takes to write their own content. Moreover, many people don't want to pay someone else to write content for them, so they take the easy way out by plagiarizing the work of other writers, and try to pass it off as their own.

Should plagiarism and other content theft stop you from writing? Absolutely not! Keep writing, but find ways to protect your work and take measures to find unauthorized versions of your content online.

Please note, there are many different ways that you can find plagiarized content on the Internet. This article only covers discovering your article by using Google Alerts.

Step 1

Go to Google Alerts and log into your account (please note, the steps in this article assumes you already know how to setup a Google alert.

Step 2

Create an alert, which includes the title of your article. In order to find an exact match of your article enter your title in quotation marks.

Example: "enter your title here" (you would enter your actual title where it says, "enter your title here").

Step 3

Setup a Google Alert that also include variations of your article titles. You would be surprised to know that many plagiarizers will only change one or two words of your title, and leave the content exactly how you wrote it. See a search example below on how to modify your original titles.

Example: if your real article title is "What Kind of Networker Am I" you might also want to setup an alert for "What Kind of Networker Are You." It might not always be as simple as changing one word, but in some cases it works.

Use alerts that include a portion of your article. You might want to use one sentence that someone might likely leave in the article in order to make sense of the entire article. Try not to setup too many alerts for the same article or you will become inundated with numerous e-mails from Google Alerts.

For more information on searching for your plagiarized content on the Internet, please see below.

Resource:

How to Find Plagiarism www.plagiarismtoday.com/stopping-internet-plagiarism/1-how-to-find-plagiarism/