Google Toolbar Spell Check Problems In WordPress

If you are like me, you prefer the Google Toolbar Spell Check over the WordPress Spelling Checker. Lately I have found some problems involving Google’s Spell Check and WordPress in visual mode. After I ran a spell check, all the words that were incorrect or that were names that weren’t in the dictionary appeared red with an underline. The problem is that it kept the red lines and underlines immediately after WordPress auto-saved. After I turned the Spell Check off, it made matters worse by adding the misspelled word again.

This was a major pain in the butt. I had to go into HTML view to remove the bad code. Fortunately I found the answer. Below is a graphic that shows how to access all writing tools so you can remove the formatting which will get rid of the red and green lines in WordPress:

 

This will work for those of you that have had this problem, but in the future I suggest that you write your article in Text Pad and paste it in when you are done. My wife wrote an article on Content Writing Made Easy Using A Text Documentthat shows how we prepare content. You can also use the WordPress spell check or better yet FireFox. You can add dictionaries to FireFox and add words that it thinks are misspelled by clicking “add to dictionary” when you right click on a misspelled word.

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Blog Plagiarism and Scraping of Content

According to Dictionary.com, plagiarism is “the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work.” The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines THEFT as: the act of stealing; specifically: the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.

“Scraping” refers to copying off another site that’s not personally owned by the party doing the scraping.  Not referencing information sources and claiming that information as your own is plagiarism and content scraping. Spammer and ad-only blogs are chalked with scraped content stolen from other sites.

Plagiarism in the blogosphere is an extremely frustrating problem that is rabid on the web. In truth, anyone can steal your content and publish it on their site. After scrubbing it here and there, it now becomes “theirs.” It is extremely disheartening to see your hard work, laborious topic research and precious time cheaply ripped off.

This is precisely why I love Copyscape so much. It’s an indispensable blogging tool that uncovers plagiarism of your content. It’s also a free service. You simply type in the URL of your original page of content and Copyscape will pull up and expose any content that matches yours. It could be a sentence, a phrase, a snip-it or even an entire page of your content. 

Copyscape also has a service called Copysentry that searches the web for any copiers of your content and then emails you if any is detected. As a deterrent, you can also display plagiarism warning banners from Copyscape on your site.

If you discover that your original content is now sitting on someone else’s website, time is of the essence. See the Guide to Responding To Plagiarism for the best actions to take to get your content removed as quickly as possible.

Plagiarism/scraping is a dirty problem that most professional bloggers are unfortunately, very aware of. Plagiarism Today is a blog entirely dedicated to the subject of plagiarism, packed with insightful articles and informative tips.

Basic Blogging: Introduction

Together with my husband, Michael Stankard, we operate a successful social network marketing company called Get Found Now. We’ve both been blogging for awhile now and really enjoy it. I started out as a rookie on Blogger and eventually graduated to WordPress, which is a far superior platform.

Everything I’ve learned about blogging is a result of the expertise of Michael, whom I consider to be the “guru” of social network marketing. Michal Stankard was really one of the pioneers of blogging long before it had a name. Everyone thought he was crazy with his nonstop informational postings on PHP Nuke portals and phpBB forums. What Michael was actually doing was blazing the trail of the future of Internet marketing.

Yes, SEO is important, but social network marketing is really what it’s all about if you want organic search engine placement and traffic generated to your website. If your business relies on the Internet and your not blogging, you could find yourself nixed out of your market by competitors who are blogging.

More and more people, who rely on the Internet for their business, are wanting aboard the social network marketing bandwagon. They may not get how it all works, but they know they need to be doing it. The aim of Get Found Now’s blog is to post practical information on how social network marketing can be used as a component of an aggressive Internet marketing strategy.

Here’s a couple of blogs that I’ve regularly posted on:

• Mortgage and Real Estate Information Site
  http://www.flarates.com/
• DTI Data Recovery Resource Center
  http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/author/victoria-stankard/

Stay tuned for future posts on helpful blogging tips.