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But it doesn\u2019t stop there, when we get pitched guest posts, we also face the possibility of publishing duplicated content onto our blogs, especially if we don\u2019t check them first! So what can you do? Here are 3 amazing online tools for you to use to check for duplicate content and plagiarism!<\/p>\n
Tip:<\/strong> A real case study: a tech blog unknowingly published duplicate guest content, resulting in 20 articles being deindexed by Google. They had to rewrite everything and submit reconsideration requests. After implementing plagiarism checks, they restored rankings and improved editorial quality.<\/p>\n Copyscape I believe is the most popular and most advanced tool for checking plagiarism. There is a free and premium service to choose from. The free service allows you to search a page at a time, but the premium version offers the most comprehensive features. Costs wise, you pay 5 cents per search and you can search a single URL, search an entire site using \u2018batch search\u2019 (you\u2019re able to check up to 10,000 pages in a single operation with Batch Search), or paste your content to run a check.<\/p>\n Tip:<\/strong> Many agencies use Copyscape Premium for screening content writers. In one agency case study, plagiarism dropped from 40% to below 2% after mandatory Copyscape checks. An e-commerce company also used batch search to locate 300 stolen product descriptions across the web, helping them file takedowns and reclaim traffic.<\/p>\n PlagSpotter is another popular tool for checking duplicate content very similar to Copyscape. You can try PlagSpotter for 7 whole days using their free trial, and then pay from $3.95 per month for up to 50 monthly searches. You can also calculate your monthly budget; the fee increases depending on the monitoring frequency and number of URLs you request. Tip:<\/strong> A blogging network case study showed that PlagSpotter helped discover that 60% of their tutorials had been copied by scraper sites. After notifying hosts using automated reports, their original articles regained ranking positions and organic traffic improved by 22% over three months.<\/p>\n The last tool in my top 3 is a simple tool called Siteliner. Siteliner doesn\u2019t just allow you to check your site for duplicate content, but also broken links, XML sitemap and much more. The free version allows you to scan your site once every 30 days and a maximum of 250 pages, and of course there\u2019s also a premium service. The premium service allows you to purchase credits; each credit is used to scan one page of your site, so for example, if you wanted to scan 500 pages you\u2019d need to purchase 500 credits. The site states credits must be used within 12 months of purchase.<\/p>\n
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\nSome of the features include: The ability to scan and check your entire site for duplicate content, generate a list of sources and percentage of matched content, originality of content taken from duplicate content reports and more.<\/p>\n
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