Plagium.com Anti-Plagiarism Tool - How and Why to Use It

There are a lot of free Internet tools out there that can be extremely useful and Plagium is a recently developed tool (in beta and free to use with an optional donation button at the time this article is being written) to help people that write or use content for their websites track instances of plagiarism.  It can also be used to help students researching work for school. How can it help? It shows you instances where text you check have already been published, and where it has been published.

How do you use Plagium?

Much like Copyscape Premium (but currently free instead of costing $0.05 USD per query like Copyscape), you can paste text into the Plagium window to see if there are instances of the text found online. If the text pasted is deemed to be original, the site will tell you so. If it finds the text elsewhere, you'll be shown where.  The site also offers an option where you an submit a URL instead of text to see if that URL's content is found elsewhere as well. 

*This tool only shows you instances where text is published online on public websites.

How can you benefit from using this tool?

If you're a freelance writer, you can:

• Check your work to ensure it's original before submitting to clients or your own site
  
• Look to ensure no one is stealing your own original content

If you're buying content for your site, you can:

• Ensure the written articles you buy is original
• Ensure no one has copied it after you've published it
• Compare rewritten text  to ensure your content reads original to search engines (thus avoiding duplicate content penalties in SERPs). This can work well for directory submissions and rewriting of private label (PLR) content
  

And, as a website owner you can run periodic checks to ensure your site's content hasn't been scraped. The Plagium tool offers free memberships whereby you can set alerts to have the system check for you so that you don't have to manually police whether or not your content is being stolen.

Your written content is yours unless you agree to let others publish it.  And, when you're using content to help you with your website's marketing, you need to be sure that you're not infringing on someone else's copyright or paying for for original content and receiving something that has already been published.  Tools like Copyscape and Plagium can help you see where others don't respect that.

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Dana Prince is a Canadian writer and web marketing consultant who helps her customers achieve online success.

published 2 years ago

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