| The Internet can be the most valuable tool when it | | | | on the Internet. There is a buzz surrounding a new |
| comes to marketing your particular business or | | | | service that will allow you to search multiple articles |
| service. Content articles and article directories can be | | | | at the same time. |
| used to increase the amount of hits to your website | | | | Therefore, before you decide to plagiarize something, |
| ten-fold but if you are caught plagiarizing content, | | | | keep in mind that there is a good chance that you |
| you might have to kiss your business good bye. | | | | will eventually be caught and that your reputation will |
| In the world of writing, stealing another writers | | | | be tarnished for years to come. |
| words is just about equal to assault with a deadly | | | | Trying to find work as a writer after being caught |
| weapon in the rest of the world. | | | | plagiarizing is about as difficult as finding work as a |
| Writers are very sensitive to their work being used | | | | school teacher after a child abuse conviction. |
| without their permission and they are right to feel so. | | | | Although the two crimes are quite different in nature, |
| Finding out that your hard work has been stolen | | | | no one will want to hire someone that has been |
| without your prior knowledge can be very | | | | caught plagiarizing content. |
| demoralizing. | | | | If you are writing articles to boost your own |
| That is why under no circumstances should you ever | | | | businesses Internet presence, plagiarism could be the |
| use words that are not yours, without prior | | | | absolute end of your business. After being caught |
| permission from the author. | | | | plagiarizing content, your business name will be |
| If you are indeed caught plagiarizing content, there | | | | permanently marked in red. |
| are many things that could happen to you. The worst | | | | The risk is just simply not worth it because the |
| thing that could happen is that you could be sued by | | | | consequences can be monumental. Also, if you hire a |
| the author of the piece. | | | | ghostwriter to write articles for your website or for |
| Depending on the nature of the plagiarism, you could | | | | an article directory, it is incredibly important to check |
| be facing a very large monetary fine and also the | | | | them for plagiarism before posting them publicly. |
| loss of your reputation in the business as a | | | | Since the article will appear under your name, it is you |
| respectable writer. | | | | that will lose credibility. Of course there are some |
| Also, you need to keep in mind that plagiarism does | | | | actions that you can take against the ghostwriter but |
| not only mean direct word for word copying. If you | | | | none of them will make up for the lack of trust that |
| take an entire article and just simply move a few | | | | your customers will have on you. |
| words around and add a few here and there, you | | | | Twenty years ago, it was fairly easy to plagiarize |
| are still guilty of the offense. | | | | content. The world simply did not have the proper |
| It is especially risky because there are software | | | | software to be able to check copy quickly and |
| programs out there that anyone can access that will | | | | efficiently. |
| show if their article has been plagiarized somewhere | | | | |