Many of us would have tried our hands at writing an article or blog content for money, but have been disappointed due to continuous rejection of our submissions. Some websites might have even banned our account as they have found our content copied from somewhere. There is no reason to be disappointed, as there are hundreds of such websites operating these days. But still you should understand why your articles are getting rejected, and improve on the same.
Duplicate content is one of the biggest reason why most of the articles are rejected online. These content submission websites uses softwares like copyscape to check whether the content is not lifted from somewhere. Copyscape searches the web to see if there is a any matching content to the content that is to be checked. Now, you are not likely to buy copyscape softwares which are not for free, but there are some tools available on internet now which can help you in finding out whether your content is likely to be caught by such duplicate-detection-softwares.
These tools are
1) http://www.plagium.com
2) http://searchenginereports.net/articlecheck.aspx
3) http://www.duplichecker.com/search.asp
4) http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/
These tools are free, and will provide you basic services just enough to escape the wrath of paid softwares like copyscape. However, you can also sign-up with them to get more deeper search results. Hope this info will help you in getting one step closer to successfully submitting your articles to article directories, and make money eventually