With the rise in spun or rewritten article submissions has come a new problem. Article directories that insist on original content and actively check for it - sites such as EzineArticles.com are now suspending user accounts for using plagiarised content in their articles.

Sometimes the suggestion is justified - too many people still think that changing a few words in a PLR article makes it unique and gives them copyright.

However, many users of rewriting tools are simply the victims of circumstance. What happens is that the writer researches and creates a genuinely original article, written in his own voice and with an orginal slant. Then the writer uses Content Composer or other rewriting or spinning tools to create multiple versions of the same article - again a valid approach.

The problem is that with some/most tools all that happens is that the writer makes several versions of the article and then the phrases or sentences are mixed together from the different versions, creating many new versions of the article. When these articles are submitted then any plagiarism detection tool will pick up that a particular phrase has been used in more than one version of the article and it is flagged as being plagiarised/copied work.

ContentComposer is not so likely to have this problem as it uses both substitution at the phrase/sentence level, but also at the individual word level - one of the  reasons it is so useful for creating good articles from the LSI (latent semantic indexing) perspective.

But, even users of Content Composer can come unstuck!

However there is a solution.

Keep a paper trail/audit trail of all your work. Some tools make this easier than others, but when EzineArticles ask you to prove that your work is really your own some kind of record is very handy!

Ona simple level, PLR Spinner from Cuztech enables the user to simply cut and paste all the intro paragraphs into a single text file. Showing any enquirer the dated list of paragraphs and titles should suffice.

With Content Composer a simple copy/paste of the original document setup window with its tokens should demonstrate what has been done and a copy of the text file itself would be confirmation. The important thing is to keep these records and not to discard them just because the article has been used!

As the article marketing enviornment becomes more sophisticated we need to keep up to date with developments and use tools that enable us to manage change within our internet marketing business.

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