Text Uniqueness Check: How to Read the Result
The uniqueness check answers the question of whether your text appears online verbatim. This is important not for the percentage itself, but because a copy of someone else's material does not bring traffic: the search will show the original. You can run the text through the originality check.
What Exactly is Searched
The tool breaks the text into fragments and looks for their verbatim matches. Therefore, it finds copies and close paraphrases, not 'similar in meaning' texts. From this follow two consequences: a quote in quotes will also fall into matches, and a deeply rewritten foreign text will show high uniqueness while remaining a retelling.
How to Read the Result
| Picture | What It Means |
|---|---|
| High uniqueness, matches only in terms | Normal: stable phrases and names are repeated by everyone |
| Match with one source in whole paragraphs | Copy — need to rewrite or put a quote with a link |
| Matches with dozens of sites a little bit | Usually template phrases: 'in this article we will consider' |
| Your text on someone else's sites | You have been copied — see below |
If You Are Copied
- Make sure your page is indexed before the copy — how to check.
- Check if your copy is closed from indexing: sometimes the original itself is out of the index.
- Write to the website owner; if that doesn’t help — use the official copyright infringement complaint form.
- Strengthen your page: a strong page has a higher chance of remaining the original in the eyes of the search.
Internal Duplicates Are More Important Than External Ones
Often, it is not someone else's copying that harms, but your own duplicates: the same text at several addresses of the site. This is treated with a canonical address and spreading pages by queries — see cannibalization.