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Can My Site Recovered... Or Am I Out Of Luck?

by Branlan17
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I have recently discovered a site plagiarizing my entire lander but because his domain is older I fear they think the content was on his page first. I've been linking to my site for months and it's nowhere to be found for its search term.

I have reported the site's DMCA violation to his hosting provider (ty to the helpful warriors!) and filed a plagiarism complaint with Google but.... Once his content is removed, will mine ever be restored as the original spot for this content or am I pretty much screwed on this domain? It's never been de-indexed but has yet to show up in the first 50 pages for it's KW phrase since about 2 months ago.
#recover #site
  • Profile picture of the author Branlan17
    Anyone have any idea?
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  • Profile picture of the author RebeccaL
    There's no such thing as duplicate content penalties and Google doesn't only ever have just one copy of the same content in its listings. Just keep building links and get your site to authority status, then you will outrank the other site. Best to spend your energy on that rather than worrying about copy-cats, because they are everywhere but they usually fizzle out.
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  • Profile picture of the author ApaOps5
    Its going to happen as long as you continue to create good content. So try take it as a compliment but still go through the steps you did to protect what is rightfully yours.

    Just use it to motivate you to crush that website owner in terms of page rank and traffic!
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  • Profile picture of the author Branlan17
    Is it alright that this homepage is static? I have a blog page on the same site where I post a new article every week and the feed for this blog is on my homepage but the homepage itself is a lander/sales letter so it doesn't really change ever... Is this ok in terms of tanking that home page?
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  • Profile picture of the author iVentureBiz
    Well just a little tip for helping to prove that your site had the content first try looking up both domains in the way back machine

    As for the content penalty... really it's not as bad as people make it out to be... It more comes into play when there are like hundreds of sites with the EXACT same content on it. (Part of the reason why you see less and less copy-cat blogs in the search results).

    I'm curious if this is a blog/content site or a sales page... Because in the case of a sales page you're probably never going to be the ONLY location for that content (especially if you have an affiliate program) - many affiliates just copy and page your sale page in an effort to "pre-sell".

    And as for a content site, you should be updating the content on the main page frequently anyways to get the best SEO results possible so this little bump in the road shouldn't affect you at all...

    Just another little side note I think the damaging effect of duplicate content VS stale content are about the same... If you're site hasn't had any changes or new content in a long while you'll start to lose ground.... (It's not a rule, but it DOES happen...)
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