The term "duplicate content check" refers to the automated examination of website content for duplicate or highly similar text passages that appear either internally (within the same domain) or externally (on other domains). Duplicate content can negatively impact a website’s ranking in search engines, as search engines may struggle to identify the most relevant version of the content. The goal of a duplicate content check is to detect such content early and take appropriate measures to avoid SEO disadvantages.
Internal Duplicate Check: Analysis for duplicate content within the same website, e.g., in product descriptions or category pages.
External Duplicate Check: Comparison of website content with publicly accessible web sources to identify external copies or plagiarism.
Similarity Scoring: Percentage evaluation of how closely contents match or resemble each other.
Text Segment Highlighting: Visual highlighting of affected text sections for quick analysis and editing.
Reporting Function: Generation of detailed reports on detected duplicates, including source references and severity rating.
Remediation Recommendations: Automated suggestions for content consolidation, such as through canonical tags or redirects.
Monitoring Function: Regular content checks for new duplicates or instances of plagiarism.
An online store discovers identical product descriptions on several of its category pages.
A company finds that a blog post has been published on another website without permission.
An SEO agency analyzes a client’s content for repetition caused by dynamically generated URLs.
An editor uses the similarity score to ensure content uniqueness before publication.
A web portal performs regular checks to make sure none of its content is being plagiarized online.
