How much rewriting do you need to do on an article?

If you are taking an article from one source and changing it around to avoid duplicate content when its hosted elsewhere, how much do you need to rewrite it? I assume changing a few words in each sentence, swapping a couple of sentences places and moving a paragraph or two would be fine?

thanks

 

Yo! that will be fine. Use www.copyscape.com to check it. It's a very good tool to check duplicate content and you will come to know the critiria for it.

 

I'm assuming you own the articles in question? Otherwise, you can't do any "rewriting" as that is a copyright violation.

If you are talking about PLR articles or articles you have the rights to, then you should rewrite as much as possible. Some say 30% will do it, others say 50%. I try to rewrite PLR articles by 85% or more.

 

GigaSEO - thanks, i've been using that. Do you think they use the same types of checks as google do? Some of my rewrites are getting flagged by copyscape but still ranking on first page in google so I'm unsure what the deal is with that.

Chatterboxwriting - Yes, the articles were written by people working for my originally, but I wanted new copies of them for another website in the same niche.

 

Great! You can use a software called Dupe Free Pro to check between the originals and the rewrites as well. You download it to your PC and then when you run it, you paste the original article in the first text area and the rewrite in the second text area and click "compare." It will tell you how much of the article is a duplicate from the original. It was free when I downloaded it, but I'm not sure if it is still free. Google for it and you can try it.

 

Thanks again for the reply, I'm going to give that a try.

 

Hello,
Google works on this type of concept but yes, Google is very much lenient as compare to the copyscape.

Regards

 

you can use copyscape.com but it's better to write a completely new article

 

I agree. I hate reading articles I've read somewhere else.

If you must, take notes on the article in point form. Try and change synonyms in the notes, and then rewrite the article from there. Add your own insight or comments, and you're done.