How to prevent your articles from being stolen online.
If you have ever written any nice or informative article online, then someone must have stolen your article and claimed ownership. If it has never happened to you, it will soon happen.
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If you have ever written any nice or informative article online, then someone must have stolen your article and claimed ownership. If it has never happened to you, it will soon happen.
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It has happened to me over and over again and everyday, I read or hear stories and lamentations of people that have been affected. I can't blame them for such lamentations. I mean, you spend hours churning out the perfect article and one dunderhead somewhere copies it...
... removes your name and posts on his or her blog or social media handles. It is wrong and it is illegal. Different countries have different laws against plagiarism but that is not what I want to talk about. I want to talk about how you can prevent it from happening to you.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying you should keep quiet if it happens to you. If it has happened or ever happened to you, you should fight it using every possible means legally available to you. It is painful to see one take glory of your sweat and intellectual prowess.
That is just not the focus of this thread. This thread is for prevention I learned this from one of my teachers, Dan Kennedy. This method is 95% effective. If anyone still succeeds in stealing your articles after doing this, the person would be an evil genius. More on that later.
The technique is simple. All you need to do is infuse personal stories into your article. You need to infuse your person into your articles. When I say your person, I mean things like your stories, your experiences, your name, your beliefs, your locations etc.
You infuse it so much that if anyone is dumb enough to lift your article and remove your name as the author, people will know it was your article. Even if they never heard of you, they will start knowing you through that article and they"ll know it was stolen from you.
Let me give examples. As you already know, I like to teach with examples. Let's say you want to write an article on how to use Facebook advertising to get traffic to your blog. Let's assume your blog is called okrosouprecipe.ng. You can write your article like this...
When we launched okrosouprecipe.ng, we were not sure what which method of traffic we should use. We contemplated doing content marketing but we decided against it because we wanted something instant, then our advertising agency introduced us to Facebook advertising...
Are you getting my drift? Let's talk about another example.
Let's assume you want to write a political article about political leadership and godfatherism. You can use a line like the this....
Let's assume you want to write a political article about political leadership and godfatherism. You can use a line like the this....
When I was growing up in Mbaise, Imo state, the major political parties were APGA and PDP. In my polling booth on Oko street, right opposite SCOA motors, I ensured my party...........
If I want to write an article about Chief Obafemi Awolowo, I can go on about how my late dad, Chief Adediran Alabi talked about him plus the fact that I was only five years old when he came for a massive campaign in Ibadan in 1983.
Imagine a 21 year old man from Guinea lifting this article. It won't work. So why did I say this will work 95% of the time? Well there is always that patient thief? The thief will take time to remove your personal stories and still manage to come up with a good article.
Imagine some removing all these personalizations and stories and still manage to come up with a good article. Sometimes I wonder why someone will have the brain to do that but will decide not to use the brain to write his or her own articles. Anyway, sometimes, things happen.
