Duplicate Content: How To Find and Fix It

How to Spot Duplicate Content and Fix ItWritten by Anna Postol Reviewed by Ivanna Vashyst 20 min readEasy to create, hard to get rid of, and extremely harmful for your website—that’s duplicate content in a nutshell. Content that is distributed without permissionIdentical or barely edited content on competing sitesRewritten articles that are available on multiple sitesDoes duplicate content hurt SEO? Besides, as Matt Cutts said about how Google views duplicate content: “Something like 25 or 30% of all of the web’s content is duplicate content.” Like always, just stick to the golden rule: create unique and valuable content to facilitate better user experiences and search engine performance. To avoid duplicate content and SEO issues, it’s essential to ensure that all content on a website is unique and valuable. How to check for duplicate content issuesTo start, let’s define the different methods for detecting duplicate content problems.