A substantial portion of my work was duplicated and I am told to revise the work. I was definitely the author of the work and want to know how we can better protect ourselves from plagiarists. It is frustrating to be the author of the work and instead be accused of duplicating.
I had the same thing happen to me. My work was posted on my own website. I removed it to put it here, but unfortunately someone had embedded it and the link to my website into their site. I could ask them to take it down, but I suspect it's an abandoned website. Anyway, until they remove it (and it is attributed to me), I'm stuck not using my own work here. A Google of your work will find out where it is in the big land of cyberspace.
This free tool works well for me to hunt down things like this. You can either copy/paste the hub text into the window and search or copy/paste the hub URL into the other window and search. This will find things that Google will miss at times.
http://searchenginereports.net/articlecheck.aspx
If your work is on another writing site than it is considered duplicated content. If you wish for your work to be on this site than you have to remove it from the other site so that it is de-indexed and then post.
You are being told the work is duplicate--that is a fact not an accusation. i would suggest Googling excerpts from the hub to find where the duplicate is.
by Pamela Kinnaird W 16 years ago
I've received a warning on one of my articles that much of it is duplicated on another site. I then remembered that I had it posted 1.5 years ago on a site for writers, but not a blog kind. I hadn't visited that site all this time as it didn't interest me and I'd forgotten about it actually. ...
by Roger A Sanchez Jr 13 years ago
Is putting Bible verses duplicating?I just had my first duplicate even though I don't see another pages that have my "writing".
by jwsc101 15 years ago
Hi, I recently signed up to Constant Content as this seems to offer scope for slightly higher one-off payments and some passive income as well.I just wondered whether a) has anyone else used it, did/do you make much money; andb) did you duplicate articles across from Hubpages?I've written a hub...
by Linda Crampton 13 years ago
Another HubPages writer has just asked me for permission to post some of my hubs on his website, while crediting me. He's already posted one hub without my knowledge, and has added a photo that I didn't use in my hub. I appreciate his email - although I would have liked to have received if...
by Paul Deeds 17 years ago
After a little more testing we've just opened up another new feature that went out yesterday -- a HubPages widget that you can add to your blog or website. To grab the code, just go to your profile page and you should see a link in the right hand column.You can see an example of it in action...
by kerryg 14 years ago
I used to have an eHow account, but when they closed the Writer's Compensation Program back in May/June, I removed my articles from the site and deleted my account.A couple days ago, I republished one of the articles here, and yesterday I got an email informing me that the hub had been unpublished...
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