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How do you find your information? How do you write your articles? You visit your favourite blogs, forums and newsgroups, find an idea, maybe copy some text from here and there, and here is your fresh article. But how many times have you copied more than one paragraph? I’m sure that all of you did this once or twice. Have you thought about the implications? Google will find your article and match it with the source. Boom, you’re penalized for duplicate content, although you had good intentions.

Try to rewrite content you use as inspiration, or try to quote and specify the link to the source such as:

“Source: Butterfly Media Romania”,
“Courtesy of Butterfly Media Romania”,
“Original article by Butterfly Media Romania”,
“Read the original article at Butterfly Media Romania”,
“Read the whole article at Butterfly Media Romania”.

Try not to use ambiguous links such as “Read more here” or “Click here for more”. You copy something, mention the author. You wouldn’t like to find your article or parts of it on another blog without being mentioned. What if the author uses one of the ambiguous links? It’s bad for your reputation. Send them a link and tell them to mention your name in the link. It’s the proper way of playing this game. Be a player, a good player.