How unique is it?

Private label articles provide a quick way to add new content to your website without fear of copyright infringement. Fantastic. The addition of new content attracts search engine spiders and gets your site indexed. Web content, however, must be unique for the best results. Verbatim text content should not appear on more than one website, even if owned by the same webmaster.

Since access to private label articles is limited to a select few, the chances of those articles appearing on multiple sites are slim, but not nil. We strongly encourage our members to edit or rewrite private label articles to reflect their own voice. That way, two people who choose to use the same article will not have identical content on their sites.

How do you find out if someone else has the same text copy on their site? Copyscape.com provides services for webmasters to detect online plagiarism and content theft. They have paid services, but you can check for identical web content for free. All you need to do is set up a test page on your personal domain, upload the article that you want to use, then submit the URL of your test page to Copyscape. You will get back a report of which, if any, websites contain text passages that are identical to text found on your test page.

If you use private label articles, or worry about your original content being plagiarized, you need a service like Copyscape. Go check it out today.