How can i check if the article i purchased is unique?

Discussion in 'Copywriting' started by splavik, Jun 17, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hi there,

    There are lots of articles to be purchased all over where sellers claim their articles are unique, how can i confirm this claim?

    They might have already sold these articles to someone else months or years ago, is there a way that i can paste article contents into anything and have it tell me if its unique?

    If it is unique i would rank for that key word in the article correct? and no one after me would if they used the same article?

    Thanks in advance for your replies
     
    splavik, Jun 17, 2010 IP
  2. coast.dwane

    coast.dwane Peon

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    You can use Copyscape to check the article for uniqueness.
     
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  3. joeflizo

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    i'm selling unique article...but i don't have premium copyscape account...
    so what i do is i post my article into blogger...then check the url...after that...
    delete it as soon as possible...

    make sure that your blogger is not index or found in any search engine...not so important but it's a safety precaution...
     
    joeflizo, Jun 17, 2010 IP
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    lassie911 Well-Known Member

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    You can do a Google search by wrapping part of the articles in quotes: "text in question". It should only show results for those exact words. Some phrases are common so take part of the article that should be 100% unique.
     
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  5. simey

    simey Active Member

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    I used to use copyscape, but I usually just use google now.
    I put a few sentences in quotes and check.

    I also put a paragraph or so in without quotes.

    This will often show if someone changed the article by substituting a few minor words. A barely or poorly changed article is just as bad as a duplicate article...
     
    simey, Jun 17, 2010 IP
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    cpruitt Active Member

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    You can use Un.co.ver from Textbroker. It is free.
     
    cpruitt, Jun 17, 2010 IP
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    If you pay under $10.00 for an article it is usually a form of a copy, replacing virtually every word with a similar one. Or it is often a poorly written article that is not worth owning. Sorry, but article writing (unless you mooch off other articles to get yours read), is basically an all or nothing situation. A quality article, with strong pulling power, is going to cost $40.00 and up. If your article is on an article directory site, your main concern should be how many readers can I attract and how many then visit the website.

    A quality article brings at least double the amount of readers. Now a poorly written article may get 4% of the readers to visit the sight, The quality article gets 15%.
    Do some easy math, say the quality article had 1,000 reads and the scrape by article had 400 readers. The quality article, got you 150 people, at around 30 cents each. The $10 article brought 16 people to the website, meaning $1.60 each. If you are a business person that is there ROI factor you should be concerned about.
     
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  8. Perry Rose

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    Crew Chief 007 Active Member

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    Copy scape costs $0.5 cents a check.

    You can use http://www.plagium.com/ for free does pretty much the same thing.
     
    Crew Chief 007, Jun 18, 2010 IP
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    use CopyScape!
     
    AdvancedNoob, Jun 22, 2010 IP
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    plagium seems like a pretty solid service.
     
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    All are so easy to circumvent and limited to only public places. What about member areas and the likes?
     
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    darkrider919 Peon

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    i mainly use copyscape
     
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    It's not necessarily accurate either, that if you run a unique article and someone runs it after you, that yours will be the only one to show up in the search engines. If the site that runs it after you has more authority/higher pr etc, it could easily rank above you with the same piece of content.

    Buy from trusted article writers and pay the premium to be sure of quality.
     
    searchcontent, Jun 25, 2010 IP
  15. Perry Rose

    Perry Rose Peon

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    Or, write one article every week, and in no time one will have a line of semi-good articles.

    Through simple research and editing, even a poor writer can hammer out a semi-good article at least one a week.

    All one needs is patience to do it.

    In doing this, he also becomes a better writer overtime.
     
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    Just visit Google and put some sentences out of your articles there and you will find the answer.
     
    IRichie, Jun 25, 2010 IP
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    Yeah, I used to take 2 consecutive sentences to check their originality. But this method takes too long. I am using Copyscape until now. It costs tiny cents and you can check up to 2,000 words at once. Try it..
     
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    *Gasp* I actually agree with that!
     
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    Dedication and Attention is a must or the readers will ran away from YOU. The main reason why professional writers are charging much in nothing but they take real time and effort for that.
     
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    plagium is cool...but wonder how effective it is compare to copyscape pemium...hmmm...
     
    joeflizo, Jul 1, 2010 IP