Need advice- my content solen

Duplicate content is only when you have the same content on the same website. If you have an article and another website copies that article, that's syndication. If your article was indexed first then you will be the one who gets credit for it.

Content syndication is a soupy mess these days.

My advice?

Focus on creating awesome content (for breathing humans) so people goto you first.

If the machines are pleased and send you love, all the power to em'.

As far as duplicate content? Just do you.



PS: I remember I bought "WP Robot" a few years back. There was just a new version released. Maybe someone is snagging your content with this?

If so, I say no big deal. Focus on creating awesome content that people WANT to steal. (muahaha).

(If people steal/syndicate your content, you have two options. Option one, ignore it, and focus on creating beautiful content for humans, so they share it with their friends and remember you. Option two, get stressed out, tense, frustrated, and spend 90% of your free time tracking them down and complaining to their host. Which do you think will yield better results)?

Just my humble $.02.

(I ask that SEO warriors go easy on me).

PPS: Not saying content resyndication is stealing. In many instances, according to the attached terms of each unique source of content, it isn't.

Yes these are just bots who scrape your RSS feed, post it to their own blog and add some images to it.

I wouldn't worry too much about it though, if you're a blogger the most important part is engaging your audience, that's something these bots won't do, adn as Will said you'll get credit anyways if your post is indexed first.

You could look for some plugins which block your RSS feed from being scraped though...

Every time I create and publish post, the search engines are pinged (Also auto published on social networks), but I still not sure- who will be indexed first: me or scraper?

It's a drag when this happens. I wrote a real nice article for my blog, over 1000 words and well-researched. Several days later, I google my search term and discover that someone stole my article, spun it a little and was ranking way higher than my original article.

Content theft has been a big issue for bloggers. Sadly, you can't do much about it. The blogger stealing your content is running an autoblog (many blackhat internet marketers do that) so they don't choose where their auto-posting tools get their content from.

Perhaps, you can get your stolen articles removed from that blog by contacting the owner as has been suggested above.

You can also google your article's title and see which one comes first in the results, the original one or the stolen one. If the original one (from your blog) comes first, that would mean that Google recognizes your site as the owner of the content, in which case you'd have nothing to worry about.

It has happened to me before and I tried to get it removed. I spent far too much trying & never got it removed. It was time I should've spent on my sites but didn't. Take the advice already given, forget about it & focus on your business.

Mark.

If you issue a DMCA to their host, it will be removed, usually within 48hrs. That's what I would do.

Here's the instructions on the DMCA and finding out who their host is
What You Can Do About “Paypal Dispute Ripoff Artists” | Domaining Diva

You can try to contact their web hosting and see if they are willing to help.

If you do not like your content to be posted on these sites have them removed by directly contacting the web owner. But like most of the comments here said, you really do not have to bother much about it since this is just a case of content syndication.

I guess it is safer to post your articles to high quality blog sites, submit them as guest post. This will somehow lessen duplicate content.