How to check whether a post is a copied one

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I have seen people writing articles taking & collecting information from other articles. My question is how one can know whether an article would pass the test as not copied. Is there any free way to do it?
#check #copied #post
  • Profile picture of the author ContentWritingPhD
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    renukumarbakshi, in my 9+ years of content writing experience, I've tried several paid and free plagiarism checkers. Of all those I tried, I find Copyscape as the best one (I'm not an affiliate of Copyscape).

    Copyscape allows you to check your content for free. I don't know how many times you're entitled to use it for free. However, you got to publish your content somewhere else first because you'll have to put the link on Copyscape's textbox so it can check it.

    In the premium version, which costs $10.00 USD for 200 credits, you don't have to publish your content before you can check it. You'll just have to paste the content that you'd like to check and that's it.

    There are other plagiarism checkers out there that you can try for free. But just a friendly-reminder that in most cases, they'll report to you that your content is 100 percent unique but it isn't when you double-check it on Copyscape.

    This is just based on my experience.

    Are you a writer as well?
    Do you also provide content writing services like I do?
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  • Profile picture of the author AlbertBarkley
    If article is published then you can check it by Copyscape. Otherwise if article is in document form then you can check it on Duplichecker website.
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  • Profile picture of the author spiralSEO
    Use copyscape / take few content and do Google search. copyscape is the best one.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Copyscape is a joke. Better off just searching in Google.
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    • Profile picture of the author ContentWritingPhD
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      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      Copyscape is a joke. Better off just searching in Google.
      If I may ask, why and how do you say so?

      Originally Posted by Kevin Maguire View Post

      This works fine for me.

      Plagiarism Checker
      When I was starting as a writer (some years ago), I tried this. It's not as effective as Copyscape.
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by ContentWritingPhD View Post

        If I may ask, why and how do you say so?

        The problem with CopyScape is they are a little peon company compared to the major search engines. They have nowhere near the resources to crawl, much less index and store, pages on the internet. Just because something "passes" through CopyScape does not mean Google has not already found the identical article in existence online.

        I give credit to CopyScape though. They have fooled thousands of IM'ers into believing that they are some kind of authority for checking whether or not content is unique.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
    This works fine for me.

    Plagiarism Checker
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    If your checking the content because of Google SERPs then you need to be checking Google SERPs in double quotes.

    Example, not copied:
    "articles taking & collecting information from other articles"


    Here's an example of a copied article:
    "Fuel injector cleaning not only improves functionality"
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