We all know that when we are trying to rank for a specific keyword for our website, duplicate content can be a major pitfall in our efforts. The main reason for this is the fact that most of the major search engines main priority is to find new, fresh and unique content meaning duplicate content rather defies this fact. Did you never wonder why search engines don’t normally pay heed to something already crawled before? As well as this, an individual searcher would find no benefit in having lots of content the same displayed to him? A big no is the only answer to that question.

But how do you find out if something is duplicate or not? You don’t really want the search engines catching you out and therefore to the detriment of your site. Here are steps you can take to find out by using Google.

Firstly, search for your site using its URL in Google. This will basically show you all the pages that have been indexed by Google thus far from your site. Proceed to click all the links that Google presents to you on the search page. If a message comes up along the lines of “to see the most relevant results we have omitted entries that are similar”, it means that Google deems some of the content on these omitted pages as duplicates.

What you can do then is click on the link that asks you if you would like to carry out the search again but this time with the omitted pages included. The pages that Google thinks are duplicates will then appear and therefore allowing you to rectify the matter in any way you see fit.

Although it is extremely difficult to have a 100% duplicate free website, you can help yourself by avoiding publishing reprinted things like articles from directories.

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