Duplicate content - the problems

Duplicate content can harm your websites search engine rankings.

Google, and other search engines, are thought to penalise websites that use content that is considered to be duplicated from another website. This is done to ensure
the website considered to be using the duplicated content, does not benefit from copying the original content.

Keeping your content original

The best way to avoid any sort of duplicate content penalty is to always use original content on your website. By always writing your content yourself, you can confidently be sure your website will not develop an duplicate content penalty.

The risks of free articles

Whilst free articles are great for adding instant content to your website, using them may incur a duplicate content penalty. There is nothing you can do to avoid the penalty if you use the original article in its entirety. You can consider rewriting the article, if you have the time, and the article copyright permits this.

Tracking other people copying your content

You may find other webmasters have copied your content. Identifying this is a time consuming task. One of the best ways of identifying of someone is using your content is to use CopyScape.