Checking Duplicate Content
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Hi there,
We are migrating to a new website, which we are writing lots of new content for the new website. The new website is hosted on a development site which is password protected and so on so that it cannot be indexed.
What i would like to know is, how do i check for duplicate content issues out there on the world wide web with the dev site being password protected?
Hope this makes sense.
Kind Regards,
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Paste snippets of the new content in Google's search box with " " in between and see if you get any matching content?
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