CopyGator is a feed monitoring service that can let you know when your content is re-published elsewhere on the web. The CopyGator service analyzes millions of blog posts, compares their content and figures out which ones are similar and which ones are exact copies.
The problem of duplicate content
Anyone who publishes information on the web is bound to have their words republished. Hopefully someone finds your writing useful and links to your content using a short quotation, but often times the situation is more serious. There are thousands of junk web sites who copy articles written by hard-working bloggers and site owners, and republish that content in order to sell advertising space.
In addition to taking income from hard-working content producers, duplicate content also has the potential to hurt the rankings of web sites. Search engines penalize sites that publish duplicate content — they are usually pretty good at figuring out the original source of an article, but the author is still better off not having their work duplicated elsewhere. CopyGator can help you find sites that publish unauthorized reproductions of your work so that you can have the infringing content removed.
Start monitoring with CopyGator
To get CopyGator started on monitoring your blog, go to the CopyGator site and plug the blog’s feed URL into their submission form. Hit the “Watch this feed” button and CopyGator will monitor your blog posts.
Analyze CopyGator’s findings
You can view CopyGator’s findings in a number of ways:
- Receive e-mail notices whenever duplicate content is found
- Subscribe to your content overview RSS feed.
- Install the CopyGator badge on your site — it turns red when duplicate content is found.
- Visit the CopyGator site and do a manual search.
CopyGator shows you two types of duplicate content: similarities and exact matches. A similarity may be triggered when one blog quotes another, while an exact copy could be someone stealing your content and republishing it elsewhere.
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