Be Yourself - Stop CopyingWritten by Abdulrehman on March 2nd, 2009
At the moment there are more than 15 blogs which are copying me right now. Weird right? Although I’m not so pro money making blogger at the moment. But most of them kind of copied my script and tried to put in everything exact, but it’s a good thing that my theme was safe. Then there were those who copied my articles without even giving a reference to the original article, and the most funny part is that one has even copied the ‘Advertise Here’ banner you can see of the right.
Well, that’s just me. If you talk about people like John Chow, I will have witnessed at least 50 blogs who are copying content from his blog, whereas in reality there are much more. They read his articles, recycle it and put some rubbish in it and then post. I don’t say that you start thinking totally out of the box, you could take ideas from blogs which are similar to yours and put something ’similar’ on your blog but at the same time being unique and most importantly being yourself.
Especially if you’re in the make money online niche you can completely lose hope if you try to copy others. Last week, I was going through a blog with a good design, good pagerank and a lot of potential but just then I saw an article which was a mere copy of an article written on johnchow.com ages ago, and that completely ruined the image of that blog in mind. It is like spilling irremovable ink on your passport.
When someone comes on your website, he wants to hear you, not some imitated voice of a guru who makes money on the internet. Even if you have something really crappy to say, please do. I’ll say this: I read blogs with the most pathetic posts just because the author somehow did put some effort of his own in it, that’s what gives the right impression.
To my end, I simply call these blogs spam blogs even if their intention was not to spam. So please do yourself, other blogs and the whole blogosphere a favor be being yourself and most importantly, not copying if you want to make money on the internet.
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At the moment there are more than 15 blogs which are copying me right now. Weird right? Although I’m not so pro money making blogger at the moment. But most of them kind of copied my script and tried to put in everything exact, but it’s a good thing that my theme was safe. Then there were those who copied my articles without even giving a reference to the original article, and the most funny part is that one has even copied the ‘Advertise Here’ banner you can see of the right.
Well, that’s just me. If you talk about people like John Chow, I will have witnessed at least 50 blogs who are copying content from his blog, whereas in reality there are much more. They read his articles, recycle it and put some rubbish in it and then post. I don’t say that you start thinking totally out of the box, you could take ideas from blogs which are similar to yours and put something ’similar’ on your blog but at the same time being unique and most importantly being yourself.
Especially if you’re in the make money online niche you can completely lose hope if you try to copy others. Last week, I was going through a blog with a good design, good pagerank and a lot of potential but just then I saw an article which was a mere copy of an article written on johnchow.com ages ago, and that completely ruined the image of that blog in mind. It is like spilling irremovable ink on your passport.
When someone comes on your website, he wants to hear you, not some imitated voice of a guru who makes money on the internet. Even if you have something really crappy to say, please do. I’ll say this: I read blogs with the most pathetic posts just because the author somehow did put some effort of his own in it, that’s what gives the right impression.
To my end, I simply call these blogs spam blogs even if their intention was not to spam. So please do yourself, other blogs and the whole blogosphere a favor be being yourself and most importantly, not copying if you want to make money on the internet.
I am Abdulrehman Agha, the guy behind 3arn.Net. I am 16 years old, study in grade 10 and live in Pakistan. I started this blog in the hope of making money on the internet, sharing my computer experiences and proving that despite many barriers, one can make money on the internet.
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Hi, yeah! very true. I get tired of reading the same articles all over again. I would be fine if they’d give credits to the source. or if they would edit it, add something important or a personal touch to it.
I hate plagiarists! I know how you feel now.
You’re young and you can do so much more. I can’t believe that behind this site is someone as young as you. ^^v Thanks for visiting my blog always. You’re on my February Entrecard Top Dropper.
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I’m somewhat of a newbie to blogging (started at the end of May). I always wondered how people find out that others are copying them, as I’ve seen a lot of people complain about it in message boards. Do you search for your posts or similar phrasing with Google and other search engines or do you happen to just come across them? I’ve always wanted to check and see if people are copying me as well (probably not, I’m rather boring, but you never know). I just didn’t know what the easiest way was to do it.
I’m sorry that it’s happening to you. Once you catch these guys, is there anything you can to do to stop them?
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I whole-heartedly agree with the post.
But may I know how to check how many copies are distributed ?
Your is 15 as you said. I want to know mine.
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Most people who copy other people’s work creates countless blogs/websites just so they can make more money. It doesn’t matter to them if they get called out on plagiarism and lose readers - they’ve got many more sites like this working for them.
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Great article! I too have experienced those incident but not that much. There are too many spam bloggers nowadays. I even experience my write up getting copied and got a page rank better than mine. I support you Abdulrehman, I hope they get hit lightning with what there doing.
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Heh, I value the scraper blogs that steal my content. Not everyone gets their stuff copied. Congrats
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don’t even get me started about all the john chow copycats heheeh
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I experience this in the Health and Fitness niche as well. That is a very popular niche, since so many people are trying to lose weight, so everybody gets the big idea to start a weight loss blog. Even people who don’t live the lifestyle or go to the gym at all are out here trying to be health and fitness bloggers. Funny!
I try to be very original and blog about topics other bloggers in my niche miss….but they will steal the topic and turn it into a different post. That’s still stealing, because you didn’t think of the topic on your own. If you don’t have natural talent and ideas of your own, then don’t be a blogger! You’re just a fake! I stopped dropping on a few Health and Fitness bloggers because I’m sick of them stealing my ideas on what to post about.
I have also had bloggers steal entire posts and articles right off my site and post it as their own. When I find these, I usually go and spam their comment section telling them how sorry and pathetic they are, and to take my content off their site. They steal pics too, which is why I now put my blog’s name on every pic I post.
Just like back in school there will be those who are less gifted, less talented and who have to cheat. Just try to catch them whenever you can!!
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I have visited blogs where I recognized articles that I’ve read elsewhere. It usually completely sours me on that blog more often than not I won’t bother visiting it again.
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wow…you’ve got 15 stalkers!
I agree with your observation, what I hate are those PPP (sorry) having the same content, trying to sell the same product.
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I really like how you wrote and express through your blog post… Well, keep it on my friend
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Hi!
I agree with what you said. Getting an idea from another blogger is one thing but copying his work and passing it off as your own is unethical and unfair to the author.
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Agreeing. Wrote something with valuable content to tech other must be clear by self.
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Some people copy my articles. How to prevent this?
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