Let's use this thread to discuss strategies and techniques that can be used for dedooping articles, content, pre-made templates, etc.

First, let's discuss what is "unique", etc. There's really a few ways to look at this:

1. From the SE's point of view.

2. From the readers' point of view.

3. From your POV.

While many of us, especially those that use PLR-type content want to believe just re-arranging the words creates "unique" content, the average reader probably won't agree.

For example, while the two following sentences have been rearranged, IMO they will still be considered "doops" to the average reader:

1. George Washington was the first president of the United States.

2. The first president of the United States was George Washington.

...On the other hand, SEs just may see these sentences as each being "unique". (Although LSI and phrase based indexing may influence this, as well.)

Another thing to consider is that there are degrees of "doopiness". For example, pages may be 100% alike or only 50% alike or even 1% alike, maybe only sharing a popular quote.

Therefore, how much in common makes a dupe?

You'll need to consider these points as you follow some of the strategies below...

Sidenote: Mess around with Updatez to compare pages, as it has a "sensitivty" function that is used to detect updates. In reality, this is really just a "reverse doop detector". It's up to you to set the "sensitivity" and the SEs probably have a similar "knob" they can adjust to deal with doop content, tweaking it here and there to try to maximize how effectively they deal with doops.

Updatez:
http://127.0.0.1:12345/updatez/
(Note: You must start Tuelz.exe for the link to work.)

Here's a few suggestions for dedooping the html of ready-made templates. I'll add to this list as I/we come up with more.

This assumes you know basic html...

- Change the name of the graphics.

For example, spacer.gif can be keyword.gif.

Use the Listz Tuel to make a list of all your changes so you can easily run a search/replace for all graphics at once, especially if you want to make the changes across many pages.

Don't forget to also change the names of the images themselves.

- Change the size of a graphic or two. Can you crop or add a pixel or two to the size of a graphic without destroying the page's layout?

- Add/Subtract/Change image attributes:
If an image has height/width attributes, remove one or both of them:
height=40 width=40

This also applies to the "alt" tags. Remove them, add them, change them.

This single image can be easily changed in the following ways, without altering how the image displays:

<IMG SRC="pic.gif" WIDTH="40" HEIGHT="40" ALT="keyword">
<IMG SRC="pic.gif" WIDTH="40" HEIGHT="40">
<IMG SRC="pic.gif" HEIGHT="40" WIDTH="40" ALT="keyword">
<IMG SRC="pic.gif" HEIGHT="40" WIDTH="40">
<IMG SRC="pic.gif" ALT="keyword">
<IMG SRC="pic.gif">
<IMG SRC="pic.gif" ALT="keyword" HEIGHT="40" WIDTH="40">

- Tables allow for a lot of simple changes that won't alter the output.

For example, take the table cell attributes:
<TD>
<TD bgcolor= >
<TD bgcolor=#ffffff>
<TD bgcolor=white>

Assuming the page BG color is white, all these variations will still produce a white background color, but have changed the html just a bit.

You can also add the other possible attributes. If they don't already exist, you can add "blank" attibutes:
<TD width=>

This will give you even more options to mix with the bgcolor attributes.

The <table> tag adds more opportunities, as you can add/subtract/modify:
styles, width, cellpadding, cellspacing and the border attributes.

- Extreme table dedooping - If you are confident with your html, try adding a table row <tr> that spans all columns early on the page to really throw off the table formatting. Just be prepared to "undo" if you mess up the layout.

You can also nest a table in a cell here and there to help remove some fingerprints of the template.

You don't need to over-do it. But if you're concerned about using templates other folks are using, especially if sharing content with others using the same template, spend 15-20 minutes to dedoop the html.

LAST EDITED ON Feb-11-07 AT 01:37 PM (PST)
 
Let's say you want to create some articles to use for article marketing. Here's a method that will help you create multiple, non-doop articles a lot more quickly and easily...

This does require some writing on your part, but this method will make your time and effort much more efficient.

To get started think about breaking down each article into these four parts:

Intro
Content
Conclusion
Sig

Our goal is to create a number of different elements for each of the four parts of our articles so we can mix and match them into a number of unique documents.

1. Open Pagez and create 20-100 pages. These can be either html or text files, just remember to use the proper file extension.

Also, for html pages, be sure to include a "template", even if it's just the minimum html:

<HTML>
<HEAD>

<TITLE>Page Title</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<P>
</BODY></HTML>

Add the following "tags" to the Pagez template:

Text files:
IntroTag
ContentTag
ConclusionTag
SigTag

Or for html:
<P>IntroTag
<P>ContentTag
<P>ConclusionTag
<P>SigTag

Click the "Make Pages Now" button.

2. Now, create 3-7 totally different versions of each of these three:
IntroTag
ConclusionTag
SigTag

Using Listz, replace each tag with your different versions.

Note: Make sure you have a different total number of each element. For example, if you have 5 IntroTags, don't have 5 of anything else. This is to ensure that you get as many different unique combos of elements.

3. Next, create 13-31 "tips" about the subject, each a paragraph or two.

Enter each into Randomz, then insert them after:
ContentTag

Select to insert 3-7 or so tips into each occurance, depending on how many tips you have written.

4. Use Listz to remove the ContentTag.

5. Create one page containing all the tips and host this on your own domain.

6. In your SigTag, insert links/URLs to your main tips page, something like, "for more _____ tips, visit this page."

7. Dedooop some of the text strings and phrases in your main page, as well as any anchor text you may be using in your articles.

8. You can also use Listz to dedoop each paragraph to a degree, if you wish. Also, substitute different keywords/phrases using Listz, when applicable.

9. Submit a different version of your to various article directories.

This post assumes you understand how to use Tuelz. For the "how to" for each tuel, please do NOT post here. Instead use the appropriate thread for each in the Tuelz forum:
http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=list&forum=DCForumID27&conf=DCConfID5

Kurt,

I found this free tool the other day and wondered you or anyone else has used it or found it useful to check your dedooped articles.

The sales copy is long, but you get a good idea of what the tool is designed to do.

http://www.dupefreepro.com/

Ernie

Hey Ernie,

I haven't tried it but the software does look interesting and may help people trying to dedoop articles and reports.

Thanks for posting it, I'm sure some will find it useful.