Not long ago I talked about how to create content for your blog or rather, how to inspire you to create content related to the interests of your audience. The problem is that sometimes your content is so great that others copy it. Duplicate content and content plagiarism hurts your site in many ways and it’s not just SEO.
Although at first this was not a problem, today it is because it affects your site in a very negative way, All the work you put into SEO could be damaged because of Plagiarism. For example if your content goes viral you will find copies of your content in blog feeds and sometimes even copied and pasted onto others blog. When this happens the internal links in your post become inbound links from many other sites if you get to many of the same inbound links it alerts google that you are trying to spam the system and you will get penalized. Learn more on SEO and how to rank on Google.
Report copyright infringement to Google
In this post I will show you how you can find out who is copying you content and what sites your content is on.
What is duplicate content?
When we talk about duplicate content, we talk about the content that has been literally copied from one or more websites. In most cases this happens without the original blogger even realizing it, it is one of the most common and frustrating things to deal with as a blogger.
Below are a few tools you can use to see if google considers you content as duplicate content.
5 Tools to detect the content that we have copied
Copyscape
Copyscape is an online plagiarism detection service that checks whether similar text content appears elsewhere on the web.
Duplichecker
Duplichecker is an online content plagiarism detector. Duplichecker offers the ability for users to check content for plagiarism through copy and paste or by uploading a .doc or .txt file.
Plagiarisma
Plagiarisma is a simple and free to use website that tests a given text for plagiarism. It does so by breaking down the text into various pieces. It is considered a very important tool for students, teachers, scholars and professional writers.
Plagium
Plagium is an innovative, fast, and easy-to-use means to check text against possible plagiarism or possible sources of origination.
Similar Page Checker
This tool checks for the similarity between two web pages.
As you can see finding duplicate content is quite easy, I hope this article is helpful in helping you find and elimante duplicate content. If you have any other apps you use to fight plagiarism please mention them in the comments below.
Plagiarism is no joke. You never think it’s going to happen to you… until it does! I’ve had people steal complete blog posts and pass them off as their own. It’s jarring to see your content on another site, but there are measures you can take to get it taken down. I had to learn all of that the hard way. These are great plagiarism checker suggestions, Brain. I’ll be checking them out directly!
Hey Brian,
SUCH a great post, seriously I just spent 20 minutes searching up my content on the sites you’ve listed. They found nothing so I’m pretty happy about that.
Thanks for sharing,
Nadalie, It’s All You Boo
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This is really good to know, I never even thought of checking if my posts have been plagiarized. I guess now that I’m quite small, the risk is low, but it probably grows as you do.
Really helphul post! I was searching for this kind of summary of different tools and I found it here! Thank you!
Really useful post! Will definitely use this in the future 🙂
This is a great collection of tools! Thanks for sharing!
I will never understand why people plagiarize. Tools like these are so key for our businesses. Thank you!
Thanks for the tips! I never even thought about doing this!
Great tips. Something I never considered doing. But I believe I will start checking content for duplication. I imagine it would have to be copied exactly right?
Wow this is pretty cool! Did not know these existed.
Love this! It’s so easy for people to copy content and steal photos without giving credit these days!
Good to know! Very helpful!
Awesome and helpful information,Thank you! Permission to share?
Yea feel free to share
Awesome,thank you. Very helpful information!
Pretty good 🙂