10 reasons why you should not just copy and paste articles from other pages to your blog

Blogging can also be describe as the art of creating quality contents geared towards building readership community around such contents with the main aim of constantly impacting and delivering values to the community which in turn could end up in you being rewarded.

The above definition is what bloggers should truly see as blogging and if you must accept that definition, then you must also accept that for blogging to be done correctly and successfully, there sholuld be rules governing blogging like that of the rules of engagement in the military.
Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V

Since the major ingrdient of blogging centres around content creation, this rule of engagement should be appllied in the right manner to the ways bloggers create their contents.


For those that have been blogging for long, I strongly believe that they already know these rules governing content creation, and then for those commonly referred to as newbie bloggers, it is also not an excuse (since ignorance to the law is never accepted as excuse) for you not to know such rules i.e. even why at the onset, for the title ‘Blogger’ to be attached to you, you need to have learnt at list the basics of blogging before jumping into it. 


Learning the true nature of blogging first before practicing are things even expected of you, if you must come out successful in the blogosphere and it is even applicable to all other aspects of our existence and offline jobs.

We can assume at this point that some bloggers are still found wanting and are oblivious of some of these rules, so we want to excuse them for being newbie bloggers by giving them the benefit of doubt or even if they may want to act ignorant, let’s point out 2 to 3 of these major rules guiding contents creation.


= =>All bloggers are encouraged to chunk out valuable articles by themselves that can impact to their readership communities.

= =>Necessary researches are encouraged when trying to chunk out those articles and also ideas can be borrowed on the course of such researches. 

= =>If you must copy contents in few cases when you are lacking some content ideas or maybe going through writer's block, you should endeavor at all cost make it a must to link back to the source of such articles (images inclusive). As it is a way of giving back credits to the original creator of the content which you copied.


Having said much at this point, the major reason for writing this particular piece as the title already suggested is to highlight 10 good reasons on why you should not just scrape other people’s contents and pose as if you were the creator on your blog.

Without even wasting your precious time, let’s hit it out on the 10 reasons why you should not copy and paste other people’s articles on your blog;

1.   You could easily be harassed and embarrassed – The mere fact that people don’t like being harassed and embarrassed at the same time should give you a food for thought when trying to engage in the act of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, therefore you should endeavor to desist from it. 

    These sorts of harassment and embarrassments could come as form of text messages, phone calls, mail to your inbox, name callings etc. from the original content creator, once he finds out that you have scraped his content. And don’t expect him/her (the original content creator) to greet you with kind words when he contacts you for such an act.

2.   DCMA report could be filed against you to the appropriate authorities – if you still don’t know what DCMA report is at this moment, I will tell you. It stands for Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a US binding copyright law which criminalizes the act of circumventing the control access to copyrighted materials (online) e.g. Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V which increase the penalties for copyright.

3.   You could easily be reported to Google, Yahoo and other big internet movers – you know that Google, yahoo and other giants are the real internet movers and that there are hardly any activities you carry out online without making use of their products directly or indirectly and even without you knowing, therefore when you are reported to them, they could end up penalizing you. 
    

    As a copy-paste blogger that you have turned yourself to be, your pagerank for example could be dethroned or if you are part of their ads network programs, you stand the risk of your account being suspended with any penalty that could arise.

4.   It does not show any sign of professionalism – If maintaining professional attitudes in the blogosphere are what bloggers constantly sort for to become successful at the long run, then how can you relate Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to professionalism? Or how do you think your quest and path to becoming professional bloggers will look like?....very rocky if I may guess!

5.   It is merely an act of discrediting other webmasters effort – Ever imagined your own effort being stolen by others without receiving any form of credit. I am quite sure that people don’t like wasting energy and time or doing things without being rewarded since they are not Santa Claus. It is like a popular saying down here ‘that monkey are working while the baboon that is also a monkey is only but feeding’. I bet you that no webmaster will want such to happen to him/her.


6.   It is an act of plagiarism in the blogosphere – As piracy is major to offline, so is plagiarism to online. You all know the grieve consequences of piracy, so is plagiarism with its own grieve consequences in the online arena.

7.   Your integrity as blogger could be put to question even by your own fellow bloggers – if I may ask at this point, will you like to compromise your integrity as a blogger just because of ordinary Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V….I am sure you would not. Good name is still far better than silver and gold put together.

8.   It is a pure indication that you are a lazy blogger – yes you heard me right, copying and pasting others articles most times is pure indication that you are lazy. It shows no sign of commitment to your work (blog) at all, since you cannot at any time task yourself by coming up with article of your own for your blog. Down here, we commonly say to lazy bloggers that ‘there is no food for lazy man/woman’

9.   It could land you in jail – and don’t you just dare think that I am just kidding you by telling you that you could end up seeing yourself cooling your feet in jail by ordinary Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V action. You can go back to point 2 above when I mentioned that a DCMA report could be filled against you. And so what do you now think will happen to you after investigation and if convicted. It is a serious offence, and the police department responsible for crime investigation in your country could just be hunting for you during investigation.

10.  You could easily lose your passion and could end up not making money with your blog – all other reasons highlighted above could culminate to this particular one i.e. you losing passion and ending up not making money with your blog, because no advertisers out there will like to place their ads on blogs with plagiarized contents. And detecting copied contents is very easy because there are many handy tools out there to check for copied content.


Finally, you have seen all the simple action of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V could cause you as a blogger and definitely the disadvantages are enormous and not worth you spending energy and time always sourcing for other people's content to scrape while posing as the original authors, as all could easily culminate to wasteful resources. 

Wrapping up with this little incidence… there was a time a copy and paste blogger went to copy content from another blog and even went ahead copying the original author's name inclusive without even knowing and he pasted every bit of the content on his blog….What an embarrassing situation it all turned out to be at the end when the original author of the article later found out. 

So if you have developed the habit of polluting the internet by always scraping others contents the way they are, this is a call and opportunity for you to stop now….99 days are for the thief, but one day is for the owner!
10 reasons why you should not just copy and paste articles from other pages to your blog 10 reasons why you should not just copy and paste articles from other pages to your blog Reviewed by Edwin Akwudolu on 10:51:00 AM Rating: 5

11 comments:

  1. Copying posts from other blogs and pasting on your blog is not smart, it is sneaky. A blogger that indulges in such is not SERIOUS.

    I consider such a FRAUD. The credibility of any blog is rated by the value and originality of its posts. Hence, the need to create and share new contents becomes NECESSARY.

    The ten consequences of "copypasting" in blogging as highlighted in this post are on track. A word is enough for the wise blogger!

    I have left this comment in kingged.com - the content syndication and social marketing platform for Internet marketers, where this post was shared.

    Sunday - kingged.com contributor

    http://kingged.com/10-grievous-consequences-blogger-egage-copypasting-blogging/

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    1. Hi Sunday,
      Copy-pasting others items directly is indeed fraudulent as you considered it to be and again just as you rightly pointed out that blogs are rated by values and originality which it can offer... and this point is what the big internet movers like Google are working round the clock to bring to the internet world. Thank you so much for dropping by.

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  2. We all know about this tactics, the fact is that today also people resort to such plagiarism. One is not a true blogger in real sense if they think of doing such copy, paste work.

    I am certain, those guys will not fear any of the things you mentioned, except the fact that they can go to jail.

    If any of such ill-minded person is reading my comment, then stop now, it is having the same grade of crime as one does offline.

    I found the link to this post on kingged.

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    1. I see Rohan that you don't even want copy-paste bloggers to even read your comment...Even if they will not fear any of the highlighted points it is still important to lay down the grieve consequences of such act, who knows that maybe by constantly seeing it as highlighted here, one day they may have change of mind and do things the right way. Thank you Rohan for coming over.

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  3. Hi Edwin,

    Thanks for this article post, not even in this era of GOOGLE PENGIUN & HUMMINGBIRD will a blogger still keep on practicing copy-pasting blogging.

    Aside the point you made mentioned in this article post, a blog filled with copied content is useless, your blog will be reported by original content owner, Google will never rank your blog and in total there will be no AUTHORITY for your blog. Then tell, what is the essence of blogging. this is call waste of time.

    Any blogger still practicing copy-pasting is wasting his/her precious time because nothing good will come out from it.

    Thanks for this write up and kindly keep up the good writing

    Have a nice day and stay blessed.

    I found the link to this post on Kingged and i have also kingged it on kingged.com

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    1. Olamash yes I totally agree with you that those types of bloggers are more or less wasting their time in the blogosphere and that nothing good comes of such blog. You contribution was not only complementary to the points I highlighted but it was also warming. I am very glad to have people like you dropping their honest and meaningful contributions. Thank you so much for finding out time to visit and contributing at the same time. I believe we could work together and maintain some form of sanity in the online communities.

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  4. All the reasons are damned brutal and one must look into them to write original contents and get more traffic by moving at top ranking in Google search.
    Thanks for sharing such wonderful piece of information.

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  5. I think it is also about being honest. Copy pasting is being a liar, if you just copy what other bloggers' content.

    If you like the insight of a blogger, get the thought and research for stronger and valuable content. Reliable resources that prove you are right.

    Go in-depth! The reasons are very nerve cracking! Nobody can't afford these. It's frightening to read the reality.

    These are the consequences. Let's all learn from it!
    I found this post shared on Kingged.com, the IM social networking site, and I "kingged" it and left this comment.

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  6. Thanks for the post. I hope all this copy and paste bloggers learn from this

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  7. what of in a school niche where content cannot be changed?

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