If you are a writer whose purpose is to submit articles to article directories, then you need to know about Copyscape if you are using PLR materials. PLR articles are often given away on free membership sites to unsuspecting writers. They sign up in the hopes of having made a great discovery, only to find that their article gets rejected because of plagiarism issues. Plagiarism can ruin a writers business in an instance and is to be taken seriously.

To protect oneself we can run a simple monthly check on Copyscape for free to see whether somebody made unlawful copies of our content. The trouble with PLR articles is that they are given away in the thousands on membership sites. Even knowing the fact that most writers who sign up for these sites never even use these PLR articles, there are still some that do. The biggest mistake these writers can make, is to submit these articles “as is” to article directories. In order to have a unique PLR article a writer should consider to rewrite them totally. Writers can use those articles as frames, but will need to re-do them before they submit them to article directories. If they fail to do this, they will only damage their reputation in the long run.

There is an option to pay under $5 per month and use Copysentry (which is part of Copyscape). This will give you email alerts as soon as there is plagiarized content of your website on the Internet. If you are a writer who does a lot of freelancing work, then you might want to sign up with their professional version for $0.05 per search. This will give you unlimited searches on any copied content of any of your materials on the web. Naturally this is where those who employ writers look for validity of unique content.

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