How to check if anyone is stealing my website content

Updated: 12/10/2023 by Computer Hope
Identity theft using shoulder surfing

Ideally, no one would copy and publish something themselves without getting the original author's permission. Realistically, however, anyone can copy information on your website or blog and post it on theirs. Online anti-plagiarism services help you determine if the content you own is appearing elsewhere on the Internet. The following services help you find plagiarized versions of Internet content.

Copyscape

Copyscape
Copyscape is a utility that processes a URL (uniform resource locator) and searches for other pages that share the same content.

Plagtracker

Plagtracker
Plagtracker is a fast, free plagiarism and grammar-checking site, mainly for academic purposes.

TinEye

TinEye
A fantastic and easy-to-use method of searching for other pages that have copied and used images from your site.

Google

Google search
Google helps find content that was plagiarized. For example, copying a few lines of a popular section on your site in a Google search can pull up the results of users with the same content.

Example content:
This example content is unique to the site; it's original and mine.

Copying and pasting the above line of text into Google, surrounded by quotes, causes Google to search for an exact match. For example, you would be searching for: "This example content is unique to the site; it's original and mine."

Finally, to help protect your content from being used on other sites, we recommend you include a Copyright notice in the footer of every web page. Also, include a terms of use section that explains how users can use content on your web pages.

Copyleaks

Copyleaks
An AI-based text analysis service that helps detect plagiarism in over 100 languages and also detect content written by AI (artificial intelligence).