A question re article reprinted of mine w/o permission.

[susie2]

Hi,

I have this notice in my account section which reads: "This article is property of Constant Content Writer Susie and is being printed here without the author's permission." Can you tell me about this? I haven't submitted an article in quite awhile. Thanks much.


Susie

[Celeste Stewart]

Hi,
That is your "Google Alert" phrase. CC now puts invisible lines of text within all of the articles with a unique phrase such as you see in your account section. Now, if someone were to come along and copy and paste one of your articles without buying it, they would be pasting this invisible text onto their website (unless they're savvy enough to find it). It's a way to fight back against plagiarizers.

Go to Google.com and create an alert for that phrase (place it in quotation marks) and if anyone steals your content in this manner, you will get an email from Google. From there, notify CC and they'll help deal with the plagiarizer.

[susie2]

Thanks so much, Celeste. I really appreciate your reply and it's very helpful.