Comments on: Should We Report Scraped Content To Google?

By: Chris Olberding

Chris Olberding — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:06:53 +0000

I have a problem where my site is new and thus has very little ‘authority’ and i just found my entire site scraped and posted (favicon and all), I found the site in google so it’s obviously been indexed, I just hope that it doesn’t bury my site in the long run.

By: theGypsy

theGypsy — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:13:50 +0000

I just wanted to mention that who gets indexed first doesn’t really play into it. It is generally a case of which has more ‘authority’ - something to remember if one distributes content legitimately that is also on their site. Simply getting it indexed prior to distribution isn’t going to matter. If the site it is distributed on has greater authority, it will still generally out rank the original.

Just some thoughts in passing :0)

Dave

By: Cristina Favreau

Cristina Favreau — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:44:10 +0000

I’m dealing with this very same issue. Ironic, because it’s how I found your blog post.

What I can’t stand is these fake, cheap, low-life, spam-bloggers are not even attributing the article with my name…

I’d like to think there was some proactive solution, instead of wasting our time reacting and, as you say, tattling.

Great post and great blog. I’ve just added you to my growing list of fave blogs.

By: Brent Csutoras

Brent Csutoras — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:11:00 +0000

I think that is why so many people want Google to come out with an author code.

There are quite a few ideas on how this could work.

You could have a registered author code for google and maybe go to their register content page. Then paste in your article and push submit before you actually publish it online. That would associate that article with your code and website url.

It is an extra step but something to think about.

By: Dug

Dug — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:53:44 +0000

Because Google’s algo sucks they need users to tell them what’s broken. Love the great music!