How to avoid duplicate content with free online duplicate content checker and avoid plagiarism penalty

It has become inevitable to avoid duplicate content to avoid plagiarism since Yahoo, Google, Bing which are the major search engines used today do not tolerate plagiarism. And the best way is to use a free online duplicate content checker. You do not need to spend money on them and also they have a mass following. They are used and recommended by online gurus.

So without much ado let me introduce you to the number one online duplicate content checker - copyscape .

Go to any respected forum and you will find copyscape is the buzz word among people who write or publish content. Even when a deal for writing articles are done in elance.com the buyer will ask for a guarantee. And the guarantee is, will this article pass copyscape test ?

When you type copyscape.com, you will find a strip to write similar to what you find in google.com . You need to have your content on a website or a blog in order to use copyscape. Type the name of the article page which is in the browser beginning with 'http://www.' .For example check this in copyscape http://theaffiliatenaire.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-to-become-super-affiliate-in-niche.html .

It will search the whole web and give you the results in less than five seconds - very quick . When the copyscape become loaded with lot of searches all over the world, it will give you an error saying, 'the monthly limit is reached'. But do not worry. Go and check after five minutes. You will get the results.

Copyscape has other options too. But they are paid services. For example copysentry, which is professional protection for your web site against plagiarism online. Copysentry will monitor your website automatically and email you if it finds copies of your pages online. But the price is quite low and quality is very high compared to others.

One more paid service is Copyscape Premium. It is the very powerful in  detection of online plagiarism. It has all features of the free service with few advanced features. Advanced features include Batch Search, case tracking and follow-up, team management tools and an API .It costs 0.05 dollar per search. You can also compare two different articles for similarity.

Batch Search lets you check your entire site - up to 10,000 pages - in a single operation. Batch searches run in the background, so you can work on other things. To get started, select 'Batch Search' from the 'Copyscape Premium' menu.

Case Tracking allows you to keep track of specific cases of plagiarism over time. After viewing a Copyscape Premium search result, simply click 'Track this case of Plagiarism' at the top. To view or edit your cases, select 'View Cases' from the 'Copyscape Premium' menu.

The Premium API enables your developers to automatically query the Copyscape Premium service, receiving results in XML or HTML format. Each API request is billed in the same way as a regular Copyscape Premium search. To get started, select 'Premium API' from the 'Copyscape Premium' menu.

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Article checker gives two free services. It will check the articles on the website and blog for plagiarism. Also, in article checker we can check the article for plagiarism without posting the article on the internet.We can paste the article we wrote, directly in the big box provided and then press compare.

This helps when we have just written an article and want to see whether similar articles are present on internet. You can choose either google or yahoo as a search criteria to know who has indexed the similar article.

Note that the big box is for article and small box below it is for website url. As in copyscape you need to put the whole url starting with http:// .

There are few things you can do to block your content from being branded as somebodies :

• Contact site owner who copied your article and ask him or her to put at the end of the article your name as author and your website address link.
• If the article is posted on writing sites like hubpages and ezinearticles, then you can notify this to the administrator.

• You can send a Digital Millennium Copyright Act ( DMCA) notifications to the major search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, Cuil etc. and directories like ezinearticles, goarticles, buzzle, articlebase etc., asking them to remove the copyright violator from the site.

Read these to know more about sending DMCA and what will happen to your website ranking in search engines:

• http://www.seologic.com/faq/dmca-notifications.php
  

• http://www.seologic.com/faq/copyright.php

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