Prevent Duplicate Content with Article Checkers
by Fritz Dorado
With the rise of technology and Internet-dependence, duplication of content has
indeed proliferated. Students have almost unlimited access to many online
resources that they could easily print and claim as their own. Marketing
campaigns that use duplicate content articles to optimize search engine results.
Even blog authors may or may not be aware that some of their posts are actually
duplicate content. Some people brush it off like it's not even a big deal -
until they get caught, that is.
The Problem with Duplicate Content
There's no doubt that plagiarism is the easiest way to generate content. But why
would you even present unoriginal material to your readers when they could easily
find it elsewhere? If you really reflect on it, quick-and-easy content isn't all it's
cracked up to be. A website or blog, for example, won't rank as well because the
material has already been published.
You can't expect search engines, like Google, to simply let it go. In fact,
Google expresses a strong opposition toward duplicate content. Google filters
out websites with duplicate content by using the Supplemental Index of its
database. The GoogleBot crawls websites and looks for similar strings and
content among the pages. It then eliminates websites with duplicate content by
getting only a fraction from this collection.
Let's say that your website bears duplicate content with a thousand other
webpages. The GoogleBot will only pick a small number of these websites to
include in its searches while the rest will be delegated to the Supplemental
Index. Your site can be pushed way below the pack and might not even appear in
the first 10 pages of search results. A site delegated to the bottom of the pack
is frustrating but having your site taken down by the owner of your copied
content is unfortunate and, to some extent, humiliating.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was passed by the US Congress in
October 1998 and got its approval by President Clinton in just weeks. This law
generally states that original rights owners are able to file DMCA forms with
website hosts to get plagiarized content removed from their servers. Simply put,
this means that if you copied your content from someone else's site, he or she
can file a complaint that you violated the DMCA. In turn, your website can be
taken down from its server and all your hard work flow down the drain.
The Solution to Avoid Duplicate Content
As it is, it is imperative that your site must have original content. But how
can you be sure when there are probably millions of webmasters or Web publishers
out there thinking about writing an article similar to what you are doing? The
solution is quite simple: use an article checker. In fact, there are several
advantages using an article checker can give you:
1. An article checker helps you write original content.
By using an article checker, you avoid committing plagiarism. When you key in
a particular keyword for your research, search engines only give you those that
rank above the rest. What if there is one website in the last 20 pages or so of
the search results that bear striking similarities or even duplicate strings
with your article?
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