How to Avoid Duplicate Content Penalties

[Matthew Sherborne]

One of the problems you probably face online is making sure your website or articles are free of duplicate content. Having duplicate content can lead to your site be listed in the supplemental index on Google and result in poor search engine ranking. In the past, for me at least the process of determining the duplicate percentage of an unique or plr article I’ve rewritten has been both laborious and time consuming.


Luckily for me I recently found a free online solution that allows me to determine the exact percentage of duplicate content between two articles. With this program you can import an original article and compare it to one you’ve revised. the software will then give you the approximate duplicate content percentage and highlight it, so you know what’s the same.


It’s called DupeFreePro and like the name says it really is free and fully functioning. I’ve kicked the tires on this handy program and it’s a definite time saver when it comes to easily determining the amount of changes you’ve made to your article. Another useful feature the DupeFree Pro includes is a keyword density analyzer. This is helpful to determine how many times a particular word or phrase appears in your article.


I was especially happy with how the program allows you to import Word documents, text files and index file articles directly into the program saving valuable time. Once imported the program analyzes the number of words, sentences and paragraphs in each article for comparison.


A really helpful feature built in to this program is its ability to search for duplicate content articles which is interesting to see how many times particular plr or articles from popular article sites are used online. Overall i would recommend Dupefree as a great program to help you with your article rewriting tasks.

[cocaine]

I do care about content duplication. so I use copyscape to check whether the content is duplicate in any aspect or not. This is not very expensive and really easy to use.
Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search - Web Site Content Copyright Protection

[diggerzs]

I actually like this. I once tried it on my report. I changed the dupe words to big words. It was cool. Yea. that program could be useful on websites

[Alexis Froehlich]

Dupefree is a good program when you're looking for an easy way to make sure you're not plagiarizing when you change PLR. I'll paste the PLR in the left side and then start re-writing it on the right side. This tool's great for me, because it's like my own personal editor.

[Archbob]

Programs aside, it is always a good idea to write your own articles from scratch. That way if someone asks a question about it, you can easily answer. The data/information could be the same as other articles but your interpretation/presentation needs to be different. When people read articles, many times, they are reading it more for the interpretation than for numbers.

[2BFree]

so true Archbob
I find it easier to write about stuff I already know anyway. Yeah, I may have to look up a fact here or there, but I don't have to research for days.

plus, if I don't know anything about the topic, I don't know if what I'm referring to is true or factual. Nothing more embarrasing than leading all the readers off on the wrong path of information.

I do use DupeFree, but I also like to stick to stuff I mostly know, or really want to learn about

[tanyc01]

I pretty much prefer to write my articles from scratch as well. I'm not sure if I should use something like DupeFreePro to still check for duplicate content or not, but perhaps it'd be useful if I start writing using PLR one day.

Great recommendation, Matt!