Techniques for diagnosing duplicate content

[Nightwing]

Buonjourno from Wetherby UK

Diagnosing duplicate content is a classic SEO skill but I'm curious to know what techniques other people use. Personally i use webmaster tools as illustrated here: http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/webmaster-tools-duplicate.jpg but what other techniques are effective?

Thanks,
David

[KevinBudzynski]

Hi David,

Maybe not exactly diagnosing, but recognizing via copyscape or grab a few lines of text and running it through Google to see any copycats out there.

I am also interested in what other people do...

[higherimages]

I tend to use this Plagiarism Checker - http://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/

It just goes fragment by fragment and does a search through Google. I'd advise trying that because it hasn't steered me wrong yet.

[activitysuper]

Like Kev - wrap a few lines of content in quotation marks, this method usually works well when looking for duplicate content on a blog. Sometimes use it if someone is supplying content as well to make sure it's completely unique.

You could also site:www.yoursite.com and click your way to the very last page, you might see a omitted results link. Sometimes duplicate pages are in hear as well because they are very close/same as another page.