Checking Your Pages For Duplicate Content
This is a follow on to my last post about where to get good quality content for your affiliate sites.
These are a couple of tools I’ve found which I think could be very useful if you are using free articles, or content from sites such as Wikipedia, to check how similar your pages are to others.
- Similar Page Checker by webconfs.com
This tool allows you to compare two pages and gives you a percentage of how similar they are. So if, for example, you’ve taken a Wikipedia article and modified it with some of your own writing (or even mashed it up with free content from elsewhere I guess…), you can check your new page against Wikipedia’s page to see how similar they are.
Hopefully the lower the percentage, the less likely you will be penalised by Google for duplicate content. - Copyscape
This tool allows you to enter your page URL, then searches for other sites which have the same/similar content. You can then click through to those sites and Copyscape will even highlight the blocks of text it sees that is the same as yours.
I can see this being useful for deciding whether to use a particular free article or not. You can stick the URL of the article into this tool and see how many others out there are using the same thing on their site.
If you have any experience of the above tools, or know of any similar ones then please post a comment.
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