5 Best & Free Tools For Checking Plagiarism or Duplicate content

Posted on 29. Aug, 2012 by Ashish in Blogging

I know,It is very terrible situation, when you see an  article which is originally written by you is being published or misused by someone on any other blog.You might  have spend  days or even a month and have done excessive  research for writing that article.This  is known as Plagiarism.In other words,Plagiarism is  a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work.Copying content from other blogs and publishing it on your blog is  like stealing someone’s work,usually most  of  bloggers do this in their early  days.

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So,the Question  is “How to Find Plagiarism/duplicate content ?

There are many tools available on the internet,from where you can easily detect Plagiarism/duplicate content or  you can also do it  manually by typing a single line  in Google search box,but  it may be very difficult for you to detect a 1000 word article .So,In this post I have mentioned 5 best tools, which can help you to easily detect plagiarism or duplicate content.You can also do further investigation by filing a DMCA[Digital Millennium Copyright Act] against the person who has copied your content from your website.In fact, DMCA request are now being used in Google”s ranking algorithm,click here to know more about it.So,here are the

5 Best tools for checking Plagiarism

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1.Copyscape

Copscape is  ranked no. 1 in the  world and it is  most popular online plagiarism detector  which is used by millions of people across the globe.It  is provided by Indigo Stream Technologies Ltd, a private company co-founded by Gideon Greenspan.With Copyscape,you can check the duplicate  content by inserting the URL in the search box and than it searches copies of existing content.It is available free as well premium.

Free copyscape provides existing copies of your web pages online,prevents from  content theft and content fraud,where as  premium copyscape has more features as compared with free version like copy-paste originality checks, batch search, private index, case tracking.It also offers warning banner which may warn people against stealing your content.

2.CopyGator

CopyGator is an another free tool for checking Plagiarism.It monitors your Rss feed and finds where your content has been copied or republished.It compares about 9 millon feeds,4 million blog posts and  notify you when a new post of yours is copied to another feed.With CopyGator,You can Add an image badge to your blog,watch a specific feed.you can also  see where/when and how is your content being copied or plagiarized.

3.Duplichecker

Duplichecker is an another free Plagiarism checker where you can check  unpublished content by adding  an article or by browsing ,uploading a text file into the search box.It has a maximum limit of 1000 words per search.Duplichecker  was started in 2006 and it is now used by millions of people due to its excellent services.

4.Plagiarisma

Plagiarisma allows you to check duplicate content in 3 ways.i.e.-you can paste the article,enter the Url and upload the article.It is also free and supports about 190 languages.

5.Plagium

This tool lets you to paste the article,up to 25,000 characters in the search box and checks for the duplicate content,It is very useful in many scenarios like if you are accepting guestpost on your blog.

I hope these 5 tools will help you to get rid of  duplicate content.So,which tool are you using and if you know any other tool please let us know by commenting below

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Ashish panjwani is a young and passionate blogger from India,who's passion is helping others achieve success.He writes about Blogging, Technology, WordPress and social media etc. Google

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