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Beware of Cyber Thieves: Protecting Your Intellectual Property

I had a painful experience last night. I went to browse the web for an article I wrote recently about optimizing search engines to see how many pick-up he had received. Unlike previous article checks, this time I used the title of the article, “The rhetoric of SEO” instead of my name as the author of Google search. As I happily examined the pickups, Most of them gave me credit as author and links to our site, I came across a forum post, used the exact title of my article and the full text of a part of it. And here’s the clincher: it was posted by a forum administrator, who presented it as his own work.

The challenge of cyber-thieves in the numbers game, pure massive volumes of material on the Internet, what are the chances that the author will find a plagiarized work? First, if you own a website or webmaster, populate your site with good content, the quality that you create yourself or pay someone to create for yourself, or use materials from public access sites. If you use this material, make sure you follow the terms of service guidelines or you can find in a lot of trouble.

Or suppose you can find more information or items you want to publish, and not in an open area, so to speak. You should contact the author of the article and ask permission to publish the article. And when you do post, you must give proper credit to the author. It’s just that simple: If you have any doubt about whether you need the permission of the author, just go ahead and apply. If you include the information on your website, such as statistics or ideas of another person, and include hardware. Some of the most used are APA (American Psychological Association), MLA (Modern Language Association) and the Chicago Manual of Style. Most colleges and universities have plenty of material to guide you through the creation of appropriate citations.

Second, if you are a contributor on the forums, mailing lists, newsgroups, etc., never, never, never someone else present words like yours. Perform three searches: one for your name, title of the article, and one of a unique string of words in the article that you put in quotes in the search box. If you believe that your work has been used without permission or credit, take immediate action by contacting the plagiarism and the site administrators. But a warning here, then angry, then you can be and believe me, I know what anger feels like, try to be polite and professional in your lap, but at the same time, to lay at your request is to have your material removed or proper credit noted.

When I discovered my work plagiarized, I immediately wrote to the person who wrote it and made a post on the forum posting plagiarism. Although I wanted to raise Cain with the site owners / administrators, I would be happy to have my work removed from the site at one of my e-mail and posting. Mary Anne Donovan is both a researcher and a practitioner, a balance that “gives me the best of both worlds. The theory behind digital communication and practical experience to know what really works and what does “She is in her tenth year as a professor of technical writing and business communication, while at the same time serves as vice President and Chief Operating Officer for American literacy SEO consultants, Inc., a consulting engine optimization research and training.

Mary Anne has worked with computers since they were first out of the closet and into more general use, starting with the computer systems of quality Kodak photographic and printing processes and now with the subtleties of the theory of optimization and to practical application.