How to Find Out if Someone is Keyword Spamming Your Articles

Catch Keyword Spammers using your article titles and content to promote their own websites. These thieves are stealing traffic from you, as well as potential income. Search for keyword spammers as a regular part of the maintenance of your articles, website or blog. It's easy to do. Catch the thieves and report their keyword spamming websites to Google.

Things You Will Need

Computer with internet connection

Go to the Google Homepage

In the search box, type in the exact title of your article, in quotes. Click Search.

ANYLIZE THE RESULTS: You should see your article's title listed on the page. The main location of your article's URL should be listed, as well as any social bookmarking sites that you may have submitted it to. If your article is showing up on other websites you will have to investigate how it is being used.

CHECK OUT THE WEBSITES: Click on each website that has your article listed. Look at the website and see how they are using your article. If it has the title and the intro and a link that takes you directly to your article when you click on it, CONGRATULATIONS! You have a valuable backlink. Leave it alone. You may find backlinks on websites, blogs news pages and directories.

CHECK YOUR CACHED LISTINGS: If you couldn't find your article on the site, it may be in CACHED, if it has that as a choice. Cached means that there used to be a live link to your article, but that it has been discontinued. Check for cached versions of your article by clicking on CACHED, from the Google search results. You should find your article highlighted in yellow, somewhere on the page. Leave these alone, as they will soon disappear when Google cleans its cached pages.

CHECK WEBSITES THAT SAY SIMILAR: Go back to your Google search results. Check the rest of the listings and look for ones that only say SIMILAR. These are the websites that are usually using your article improperly, either by not providing a backlink, or they are hiding the words from your article on their page to steal your traffic. This is keyword spamming. Report the spammer to Google. See the link, in the tips section below, on how to do that.

WATCH OUT FOR PLAGIARISM: If you find your article, in it's entirety, on a website or blog, you have found a stolen copy of your article. You should contact the owner of the site immediately and tell them to cease and desist or face prosecution for plagiarizing your material. Insist that they remove your article from their site immediately. You can also report them to Adsense, if there are Google Ads on the page. Just click on "Ads by Google. At the bottom of the page that appears, it will say "Report a violation". Click on that and follow the instructions to report the site for plagiarism.

Google takes keyword spamming very seriously. It affects the accuracy of the results for a search, and that in turn hurts them. They want to help you get rid of keyword spammers as much as you want them gone. Help out by reporting keyword spammers every time you encounter them. It will make the internet a better experience for all of us.

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