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My Content on other sites

by wAvision
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I have noticed a site that has basically copied and pasted a few of my articles onto their site with no link back to my site.

Is this something I should be worried about from a SEO standpoint?

Is there anything I can do to get this taken down other than try to contact the site owner?
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    It happens all the time.

    There is not much you can do no matter what people tell you.

    The internet is a free 4 all, and people like that "free for all."

    Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author wAvision
    Does it affect rankings for my site?
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    • Profile picture of the author patco
      Originally Posted by wAvision View Post

      Does it affect rankings for my site?
      It shouldn't affect your website. Google will mark the other website's article as duplicated as he already indexed your article... I hope your website is already indexed...
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      • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        It happens all the time.

        There is not much you can do no matter what people tell you.

        The internet is a free 4 all, and people like that "free for all."

        Paul
        There's plenty that can be done.

        You can file a DMCA takedown request to the site owners.
        You can file a DMCA takedown request to their web host.
        You can file a DMCA takedown request to Google.

        Originally Posted by patco View Post

        It shouldn't affect your website. Google will mark the other website's article as duplicated as he already indexed your article... I hope your website is already indexed...
        Can outrank it, and if the whole site was rooted. Could cause chaos with rankings, if it's a weak domain that's rooted. Neg SEO at it's finest.

        This sound more like article scraping spam though. That crap just drops off.
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        • Profile picture of the author GlenH
          Originally Posted by Kevin Maguire View Post

          There's plenty that can be done.

          You can file a DMCA takedown request to the site owners.
          You can file a DMCA takedown request to their web host.
          You can file a DMCA takedown request to Google.



          Can outrank it, and if the whole site was rooted. Could cause chaos with rankings, if it's a weak domain that's rooted. Neg SEO at it's finest.

          This sound more like article scraping spam though. That crap just drops off.
          You can't let them get away with it!!!

          It's not just one article...we're talking about a few articles.

          And for all you know every time you put up new articles in the future, they'll think they have the right to just take them and not give you credit.

          So at least hit them with a DMCA and show them you're not a pushover.

          If everyone just shrugged their shoulder and said..."oh well...." the it's the wild west over again, where anything goes

          No one should be able to blatantly rip off your hard work and be allowed to get away with it.
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          • Profile picture of the author yukon
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            Originally Posted by GlenH View Post

            You can't let them get away it!!!

            So at least hit them with a DCMA

            If everyone just shrugged their shoulder and said..."oh well...." the it's wild west.

            No one should be able to blatantly rip off your hard work and be allowed to get away with it.
            Scrapers sites are a dime a dozen, don't put your money on a DMCA going to a disposable email & $3 host in Somalia.
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            • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
              Originally Posted by yukon View Post

              Scrapers sites are a dime a dozen, don't put your money on a DMCA going to a disposable email & $3 host in Somalia.
              Or you could file the DMCA yourself

              https://www.google.ie/search?sourcei...own%20template

              Most hosts, even the ones in Somalia. Are resellers of larger boxes. OVH.. etc. Find who owns the box, and serve them.

              And Google doesn't care where it's hosted. They'll drop it into Chilling Effects for you.

              There's a couple of other ways to get even the most off-shore of webhosts to drop a page. They just couldn't be discussed publicly.

              I'm saving that one for my Memoirs!!!
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by wAvision View Post

      Does it affect rankings for my site?
      The scraper site can outrank your original content page. The one that wins in the SERPs is the one with better SEO/authority.

      Look around this forum, there's threads complaining how they've been outranked with their own content by scraper sites/pages.
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    • Profile picture of the author TotalWebsiteControl
      Originally Posted by wAvision View Post

      Does it affect rankings for my site?
      It shouldn't mess with your rankings but i would file a DMCA take down notice asap and send it to the host of the domain. It will get removed and/or shutdown.
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