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There are two versions of ContentComposer; ContentComposer and ContentComposer Lite. The full version of Content Composer has a great tool that automatically checks your article’s text and content plagiarism - absolutely necessary to ensure that work that you have outsourced has been completed honestly.

Here’s how plagiarism checking works in Content Composer.

1) Look for the plagiarism-check icon, the green check mark, it is third from the right, on the icons toolbar at the top of the page.

2) Click on the icon and Content Composer will run a plagiarism check of your article content. You can also run a plagiarism test by choosing ‘Tools > Check Plagiarism of Article’ from the main toolbar.

That’s it!

Plagiarism checking: behind the scenes

When you run the plagiarism-check tool, Content Composer selects, at random, five sentences from the article’s content and searches on the internet for similar text. After a couple of minutes the results are shown on your monitor and you can immediately see if you have a problem.

If Content Composer’s plagiarism report comes up clean, there will be no links shown. If Content Composer found something that may have been copied from another document, it will display a link to it.

The links shown in the plagiarism checker’s report are to the websites that contained one or more of the randomly chosen sentences. When you click on a link, you will be taken to the web page where the suspicious text was found.

Bear in mind that Content Composer will randomly select five sentences from the article’s content. The chosen sentences can be very complex or very simple. Simpler sentences (such as ‘exercise is healthy’) are more likely to be found as suspicious links, but they are not necessarily plagiarised. In such cases discretion is needed. If an article look suspicious then I’d suggest re-running the test. ContentComposer will select different sentences. If these too bring up duplicated content then it is likely that a chat with the ghostwriter is in order.

From the user’s perspective, this quick management tool can increase confidence in his writers and enables him to maintain high standards within his writing team. Personally, if I find copied material in an article I will confront the writer, inform him of the problem, expect a rewrite and, if the content is of acceptable quality then I’d continue to use the writer; after all, he now knows that I have the tools to keep him honest, I do not need to educate him further.

Within Content Composer there is a standard file format specifically for CC and Content Composer Lite. But output comes in 3 forms, Content Composer format (CCF) which allows for easy interchange between CC/CC Lite. Plain text, for going anywhere and HTML so you can just insert the content ready formatted into web pages or article submissions sites, or directly into directory submission pages.

It does make submission of articles to any directory or e-zine easier because Content Composer has good control over what printers call the ‘mechanicals’: file format, page width, line breaks, hard returns etc etc. So, for example, dealing with PhantomWriters is easier becasue you don’t need to worry about page width; click a button and it it is done. Same for the ezine publishers. If a site has a choice of HTML and plain text you probably want HTML for the prettiness you can get and control over the eventual appearance. CC gives you that control.

Also, don’t forget that setting up Content Composer to produce its output is not the work of 14 seconds either! But, unlike some competing products there is no pretence about it. However the level of control that you have means that you can get decent results pretty fast, the greater the degree of variation you get, the greater the potential variants, the more you have to put in, but the curve is REALLY in your favour.
Here’s what I mean…

To write an article 500 words on a topic that I know, for me, takes maybe 45 minutes.
To modify it to make a second version, by hand, but without any knowledge of how I have changed, how much I have changed the article, how the keyword density and prominence have changed - perhaps ten more minutes. To make another version maybe another ten minutes. Another, well, it starts getting hard. I am running out of ways to say the same thing!

Using ContentComposer, to write the article 45 minutes, Prepare it for making multiple versions, perhaps 15 minutes, maybe a little longer. Press the button and zip, 20, 30, 40 versions and, if well prepared, all readable, decent quality content.
The time saving here in preparing different versions comes not from the time saved in preparing for just one extra copy. It comes when you want, for whatever reason, to have many versions. I used to think I’d never want many versions of the same article, now I do! For reasons why look at this search results page. At the time of writing, on that results page of the ten pages shown, five of the pages are mine and all link to the ‘money page’! That would not be possible if all the posts were identical.

BTW, if you get writers block, or just want to know a little more about your theme then you’ll love Content Rover, the article and press release search tool built into Content Composer. This now has around 500,000 pieces of content to search through. Whilst Content Rover has been around for a while, those of you who know Instant Article Wizard will see how this can help you…

A strategy employed by several tools, often web page builders, is to create a snippet of text from a source that is not the current article/page. This snippet of text, ideally, uses keywords from the topic of the main article in order to increase relevance.

The concept is simple; search engines, currently do not read HTML and so they ’see’ only the text on the page. When the search engines parse the page content they index the content of the article, including the text snippet, and are supposed to count the whole as unique content.

There is support for the validity of this approach. In practical terms it is the same as the ‘Google approved’ method of uniqueifying by adding relevant commentary to an article. The technique of having text boxes is a recognised page/site design technique as it increases reader involvement in the page and, if the snippets carry functioning links, enables the reader to easily follow his/her interests deeper into the site. Thus it is unlikley that the use of snippets, per se, will ever be penalised by search engines but they may begin to start to consider the footprints that may be visible.

Some snippet insertion systems use a very heavy footprint such as a ’snippethere’ tag which makes it obvious what is happening is an artificial attempt to game the search engines. So, if considering using such a tool check the actual page output before purchasing it!

ContentComposer does not use snippet insertion as the tool is not a page builder. Adding commentaries to Content Composer documents is, though, very easy.

I use snippets extensively in my sites when I am using large quantities of syndicated material and wish to avoid duplicate content filtering whilst still providing value to my readers. In practice it seems to work well, especially when implemented with a strong link building strategy.

 

Along with Content Composer Jason has been making several early bird offers. One of them was for a free monthly subscription for 540 articles each month that are specially set up to work within Content Composer. He calls it ‘Spin Ready PLR’ basically this is PLR material that has already been rewritten into several versions ready to just plug and go in ContentComposer. As always of course, a few minutes spent changing the content will give even better results but simply having three versions already is a great step forward. Having the 540 articles every month, at no cost, is even better

Anyway, enough rambling. Jason sent an email announcing that as from Thursday the free PLR subscription was going to be withdrawn. If you were thinking of buying and just biding your time this might be a good a time as any to jump on. This is an offer with genuine value and will be a great help in learning how the system works at its best.

Content Composer.