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Avoiding duplicate contents is a necessity to build and maintain an SEO “friendly website. Dlinkers Outsourcing Company is aware of this, especially those who have a writer or two under their wing.

There are two types of duplicate content: (a) you copy-paste a writer’s work into your page and make it as your own and (b) somebody copy-pastes your work into their page and make it as their own.

Every search engine has its own mission statement and goals. The most common mission of these search engines is organizing world’s information and having it easily accessible and beneficial to all. So how would these search engines accomplish this mission statement when their visitors encounter many duplicate contents each time they visit? If the trend continues, they will have to think twice before using a certain search engine the next time around.

To solve this dilemma, these search engines have a person or two employed their staff whose main responsibility is to monitor, detect, and punish those who are inadvertently duplicating the works of a website writer and authors.   And for Google, he is Matt Cutts.  There are search engines, like Google, that possesses the ability to distinguish between duplicates and originals and the likes, but still, not one of them has come up with a one-hundred percent solution on how to figure this dilemma.

Almost if not all search engines’ concern is to cut down or lessen if not put a stop to duplicate content, not interceding the true writer of the content. When any search engine finds out a duplicate content, it immediately acts accordingly. It can either: (a) BAN the website of the writer who continuously duplicates a content, or (b) place the website of the writer in secondary database containing pages of less importance, for Google, it is referred to as supplemental index

But one good news is that there are now free tools that may aid a website in searching or finding duplicate content. This is a free service that goes out on behalf of the writers and everybody and searches the web for contents, write-ups, and articles identical to the contents found on your website. Copyscape is one of the most popular tools there is right now that you can avail of if you don’t want your content plagiarized.

Once a duplicate content is suspected and detected, you must promptly report it as SPAM to at least three major search engines such as Yahoo, Google or Microsoft/Live.