For consecutive years, Duplicate Content has been a huge issue in the Internet. There are lots of content which may have similarities to the original content. But because, Search Engine is too wide, there is a tool used to detect any similarities between the original and the duplicate content. This article will serve as a guide for you to know more about this wide phenomena happening in the online community.

When you are browsing the Internet, there is a huge possibility that you may encounter duplicate contents. This type of content is usually seen in other sites upon you turn on to the next page of the Search results. You can notice that this type of content is exactly similar to the original content. Spammers usually create exactly replica of the original content assuming that it will increase their ranking as well as increase their chances of getting listed in the search engine. However, they have no idea that duplicate pages will be detected by the search engines sooner.

In order to make users to search relevantly, search engines use filters so that the duplicate content will definitely be removed in the Internet and deduct ranking points to a specific domain that uses duplicate contents. But, what is content filters and how does it works? Well, there is a thing used by the search engine which is known as “crawler”. This tool fetches a particular page and finds out whether it is exactly duplicate to other domains or pages or it is unique in the search engines. After the content has been marked as “duplicate content” the crawler will now place the fetched page in a queue for the indexing process. During the indexing, search engine uses sophisticated algorithms to determine the exact similarities of the contents. After this process, the search engine will now determine the "full version text" from the core version. Then, after certain algorithms and further calculations, the duplicate content will be definitely banned in the search engine.

Of course for every violation, there is a penalty. In real life spammers are not actually penalized. The search engine will only deduct points or filter a particular page for the users to search relevant information. For web masters this is known as "duplicate content penalty" there are instances that good articles are accidentally removed because the search engine has found data redundancy in some keywords or phrases. For web masters, they are prepared to use anti plagiarism software so that they can avoid the existence of duplicate contents. Since you want to know if your article has been copied or not, you have to know some duplicate content filter avoidance. One way to do that is by checking it using copyscape. Here, you can paste the article or the URL’s to find out if there is any replica of your content in the Internet. This tool will help you to create unique content or even if someone is borrowing your content without any permission or further notice.

We all know that plagiarism is a crime especially in creating content. So, if you are writing articles you have to make sure that it is 100 percent original. Or if you are planning to create duplicate contents, better stop it because it can only put your articles at risks. You are just wasting your time in doing it.