Checking for content originality in a site
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two part question on original content
How would you go about checking if a site holds original content accept the long search quary within Google?
ans also if I find many sites carrying my content and I am the original source should I replace the content?
thanks
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Copycsape.com is a good place to see how much your content is duplicated with others…
If I would be at your place I might never have considered duplicate content as a problem because of the following facts:
- I am the original source of the content
- Google is smart it can guess who the real content creator is and give all credits to original content instead of content scrapers…
Mostly this happens with blog, infect SEOmoz blog’s content has been copied on multiple places but I a haven’t noticed any penalty on SEOmoz nor I see scrapers ranking above the original content.
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You can use this website to check for duplicate content.
I wouldnt worry about duplicate content too much if it is only a couple of places ripping your content. Keep it on your sites for your audience. I think Google only cares if hundreds or thousands of sites have the same content and only devalue pages with it not penalize. But i could be wrong.
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