Dear bloggers,
I decided to write another post today and remind you an indispensable aspect related to paid blogging.
As you know, every single advertiser when pays for a sponsored review anticipates some results.
In our Terms and Conditions, it is clearly stated that any paid review should be UNIQUE CONTENT.
Identical or nearly identical Opportunity-related posts will not qualify for payment under the Marketplace and may result in termination of your account.
Today we’ve rejected a few paid posts and terminated a few accounts whom owners just copied+pasted complete articles from other websites to create a paid review.
Google states here:
…content is deliberately duplicated across domains in an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or win more traffic. Deceptive practices like this can result in a poor user experience, when a visitor sees substantially the same content repeated within a set of search results.
What Google does?
Duplicate content on a site is not grounds for action on that site unless it appears that the intent of the duplicate content is to be deceptive and manipulate search engine results. If your site suffers from duplicate content issues, and you don’t follow the advice listed above, we do a good job of choosing a version of the content to show in our search results.
This means that Google gives more credit to the first who published a specific information.
So, who wins if Blogger X copies content from other websites and his blog is penalized by Google? The blogger because of those $10 he receives? It is wise to kill your blog for $10, or $50? I don’t think so.
On the other hand, these unscrupulous practices are like going to Women’s Toilet being a man.
I do understand many things, but I don’t understand the unconsciousness of some people. Why can’t we be buddies? Why can’t we do proper business together? Why can’t we do a quality work?
Please remember that getting paid for blogging should work naturally. Paid blogging isn’t about stealing somebody else’s content.
It is simple to detect duplicated content, you just have to search in Google a phrase from a given text, applying quotes:
“This is a test message copied from an article related to blogs”
If Google returns some results, the content was copied. If there are no results, the content is unique. Another option is Copyscape.
November 27th, 2008 at 8:55 am
You’re right, when I’m doing bloghopping, I see some post that are similar to what I did, and its irritating..