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Dupe Content Question

by stingrays06
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How does google know which site content came from first?

I wrote a review site the other day, and now I am seeing my content word for word on another site, and yet they are still outranking me LOL.

Will Google know that it came from my site initially?

Or, am I going to get penalized for my own hard work?
#content #dupe #question
  • Profile picture of the author betteseo
    awesome question and i don't know the answer, so BUMP
    cuz i wanna find out too. can't you report content that wast stolen from your site?
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  • Profile picture of the author JamesGw
    It doesn't really matter that much who came first. If two duplicate articles are competing for the same keyword, it's likely that Google will just rank the one with more authority (links.) That said, I imagine it's by order of indexing, and I'm sure it plays somewhat of a factor, although I think it's overplayed.
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    • Profile picture of the author Miroslav Chodak
      Originally Posted by JamesGw View Post

      It doesn't really matter that much who came first. If two duplicate articles are competing for the same keyword, it's likely that Google will just rank the one with more authority (links.)
      Correct. Google will show the page with higher authority. That's why you got outranked.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bradley J Anderson
    I think these guys are right, but I still find it very odd that Google has never thought of this before. It seems to me if you were first, it's not that hard for the search spiders to have a log date that would prove who put it up first so, regardless of who has more 'authority', credit would be given to who actually wrote the darn thing.

    I mean, why should the OP even bother writing anything else if all of his work is just going to get credited to the 'big guy'? By 'credited' I don't mean authorship, but rather search engine placement.

    This is something that has bothered me for a long time.
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    • Profile picture of the author Miroslav Chodak
      Originally Posted by Bradley J Anderson View Post

      It seems to me if you were first, it's not that hard for the search spiders to have a log date that would prove who put it up first so.
      While I sympathize with you and the OP and agree with your rationale, the way Google discovers new web pages is not necessarily in the order in which they were created. So, it's really impossible for Google to decide with any sufficient degree of certainty that a certain page was published before another.
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  • Profile picture of the author simonbuzz
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    What I have seen so far google will index the site that has more backlinks
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