You spend countless hours writing a very good blog post and 2 hours later it appears on several other blogs without even mentioning you. Copying blog content without permission/credit has become a very common problem and every blogger is troubled by it once in a while.

If you are a good web developer, you can do a lot of things to prevent your content from being copied, but if writing code is not our expertise, check out some of the methods below. This is a short list of some excellent tools that can help you protect your content and keep the credit:

Find Out Who Is Copying Your Content:

1. CopyGator:

CopyGator just asks for your URL and tells you if your content is being copied. But, more importantly they can track a specific feed for you and let you know if somebody is using your content. You can also create a CopyGator badge on your blog/website which will turn from white to red, if it finds any of your content being copied.

2. CopyrightSpot:

CopyrightSpot is a no-hassle tool to simply know who has copied your content. Even though their results are not that accurate, but its still very useful as they tend to include more results, rather than less. They also offer you a CopyrightSpot badge to display on your website in order to warn the violators.

3. CopyScape:

CopyScape let’s you track the plagiarism of your content and also provides good information about what to do in case your content is being copied by someone else without permission.

Prevent Your Content From Being Copied:

4. Wp-CopyProtect:

Getting Do not Copy badges for your blog are good to warn people, but what will you do if they still go ahead and copy it. Well, how about prevent them from even selecting any text!

You can do it for your Wordpress blogs by using the Wp-CopyProtect plugin. Once you activate the plugin, it will disable Right Click as well as the selection of the text, keeping the copy cats away. You can download the Plugin here.

5. Through JavaScript:

If you have a Non-wordpress blog but still want to prevent people from selecting any part of the text from your blog, you can do so by posting a small Javascript code in your post. This post explains in detail how to use the code and where to paste it. It is not 100% protection but will definitely make it harder for people to copy your content.

Getting Credit For Your Work:

6. FairShare:

FairShare let’s you track how others are re-using your content and get paid if they are making money off it. FairShare is simple, just specify the URL of your feeds and choose how you want to license your content (You can also choose to not license your content at all). Once you have chosen your license, FairShare would show you what other blogs/websites are using your content.