It feels horrible when you see somebody else using your content on their site. It must have taken you hours of research and writing that original article of yours, but it must have taken few minutes to someone to copy that from your site.This common phenomenon prevailing on net is called plagiarism.
Sometime people copy the exact article and use it and sometimes use some part of it for their own use. At times they copy your idea and write content on their own, few makes some changes in content or do shuffling of the words in order to make it different.
All theses cheap tricks makes the original writer suffer but also questions the authority of his website, as his content can also be tagged as copied by search engines.
But the good thing is that if bad things prevail around, we have the tools to detect them. Yes there are many online tools available which help us to detect the duplicate content existing anywhere on the web.
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Some of them have their existence and popularity for quite some time and some are new on the block. So let see such 5 amazing tools which help you to check plagiarism.
Copyscape
One of the oldest and the most popular tool is Copyscape, which is being used widely by every webmaster to check the authenticity of the content being publish on their site. In 2004 it was launched by Indigo Stream Technologies, Ltd.
It is an easy tool to detect copied content. Just copy the text or url of the content you need to check. In few minutes it will list the urls of the sites which have similar content as yours. It also highlights the text which is same.
One can register on the site and on paying some fees you can avail the two services being offered by Copyscape i.e. Premium and Copyscentry.
In premium the publishers can check the originality of web content they have purchased while Copyscentry helps you to monitor the web. It notifies you if find any duplicate copy of your content. You can find this tool available here.
Virante
Virante is also one of the popular tools among webmasters. It is one of the most comprehensive tools available for checking duplicate content. Like a doctor it not only detects the duplicate content but also finds its cause and effects. One can trust this tool completely on avoiding plagiarism on your site.
You can find this tool available here.
CopyGator
Copygator is another free tool for detecting duplicate content. It monitors your RSS feed. In blogsphere it easily detects if someone publish your content on their own site. It evaluates about 2 million blogs to detect any duplicate copy of the content.
Copygator also has the feature of sending you a notification when someone copies your post and it is detected in their feed. It gives you details like where, when and how your content is plagiarized.
You can find this tool available here.
Dupli Checker
This one is my favorite free online duplicate content checking tool available. It does not require any registration from the users. One just needs to copy the content in the text box provided and select the option of with quotes of without quotes.
One can also select the search engine like Google, Yahoo and Bing on which they want to make the comparison of the content. It provides accurate results with displaying the urls of the site where you content is present.
You can find this tool available here.
Plagiarisma
Plagiarisma is especially used to detect copied content in case of essays, dissertations and research papers. It is a free service available which help you protect your site from being penalized by Google in case of plagiarism.
It is helpful for researchers to compare their research from the one done earlier by anyone else.
You can find this tool available here.
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These are really great tools for checking Duplicate content specially when have to publish Guest or Paid Post.