is there a way that one can check to see if google is showing duplicate content on your sites?

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downtown san diego real estate
Freelance Programmer
downtown san diego condos

That's a good question. I know Copyscape is good for checking duplicate content in general...

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Nicholas May | Creative Linking | Real Estate Webmasters

Not sure if there is a way to check for actual penalties, but you can copy a sentence from one of the pages and search google with quotes around the sentence. If other pages come up with the exact same sentence then you know google has those similar pages in their index, and I would want to change them right away.

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Jim Olenbush, ABR, CRS, GRI
Broker / Realtor

Austin Real Estate

Jim's got the right idea. Find a unique something in your copy like, 'pawprint for a signature', wrap it in quotes, and search for it.

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Lydia Taylor, Realtor & Broker

Augusta GA Real Estate | North Augusta SC Real Estate | Augusta GA Home Search

thanks jim. it looks like i have a lot of work to do.

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downtown san diego real estate
Freelance Programmer
downtown san diego condos

if you're the original author there's no reason why you should be changing your content. you should check if they're violating your copyright then consider what steps to take.

Just caught that last about changing content...I missed that the first time. No, don't change your content. Send them an email (or emails) and make them change theirs. They are the content thief - not you.

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Lydia Taylor, Realtor & Broker

Augusta GA Real Estate | North Augusta SC Real Estate | Augusta GA Home Search