It’s amazing what you can learn in a week.
Naturally like most people I get a little annoyed when someone blatantly steals your work so I set out to test Google’s claim that Authorship would cut down on plagiarism by correctly attributing content to the source author. What happens when the plagiarist gets indexed way ahead of you? Sure his publish date would be later but that is easy to fake. What you see in this video may surprise you.
Jim Stewart is one of the country’s leading experts in search engine optimisation and his business Stew Art Media has worked with large clients including Mars, M2 and the City of Melbourne. He can be contacted here or on Twitter here.
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