One of the major ways your content can be stolen is by "scraping." Article thieves are using software that automatically crawls through article directories to "scrape" the articles, by category, for republishing elsewhere. These software tools provide the thief with your finished article. Then, all they do is change the article Title slightly and the insert their own backlinks in your Author Box.

In addition to stealing your entire work from article directories and automatically altering backlinks in your Author Box, they use other kinds of software to skim just a snippet of your article. Many times they skim just the first few lines or a complete paragraph of your article.

They publish your snippet to a list of many others so they can populate their sites with content to attract the search engines. Remember, search engines need fresh content. In this case the thief includes a link back to the article directory. This tactic is used to create so-called made-for-Adsense sites.

The site creator knows, when a visitor gets to the site and sees nothing but a bunch of snippets, they likely will click on one of the Adsense ads and the site creator makes money. These guys have hundreds or thousands of such sites and make a bundle with this tactic.

The "Free Traffic System" Could Be The Answer

The creators of Free Traffic System have a large number of member blogs in a wide variety of niches. They guarantee that their member blogs, where your writing is published, will retain your backlinks. You would think that such a claim cannot honestly be backed up. Well, as it turns out, Free Traffic System has found a way to virtually eliminate the problem of plagiarism.

Administrators of Free Traffic System monitor their member blogs. Those blog owners who replace your backlinks will be deleted from the Free Traffic System and lose access to future quality content. Surprisingly, this has yet to happen.

What About The Duplicate Content Penalty?

The issue of duplicate content is debatable. Some SEO experts say there is no such thing. Others say there certainly is and it can cost you. Here is the argument for the duplicate content penalty. You decide.

The argument is: When your unedited article is republished on numerous sites, like article directories, Google quickly classifies this content as duplicate content because the algorithm reads that a large number of your backlinks are being linked from sites carrying your identical writing and linking back from them to you.

While there is no hard proof that Google will punish your backlinks, those who support the duplicate content argument claim that Google dramatically lowers the SEO value of backlinks built from duplicate content pages and lowers your page rank.

Rather than further debate the issue, I would rather be on the safe side and avoid it completely. The creators of Free Traffic System agree and have provided an easy way of spinning articles automatically for you.

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