Immediate duplicate content - Who gets to keep the SEO value?

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I have had people steal content from me and outrank me for it. So I'm curious how it works.

Let's say site A publishes an article. The owner of site B finds out about it right away, say through a push notification or email. He copies the article to his own website. Maybe even sets the publish date as yesterday.

Would Google know which one came first?

Even if Google could tell which one was first, would they care? If site B has better onsite or offsite SEO, would Google say, "You know what, site B stole it, but he's doing better with it, screw site A" ??
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  • Banned



    Doesn't matter which one came first. Google can't prove the original source.

    The one with better SEO wins. End of story.
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    • This is true. However, if it's a lot of quality content like a "skyscraper article" that took a lot of time, energy and money to produce, you could try something.

      If the competitor put the publish date, it helps with this. Go to a site like https://web.archive.org/ or Wayback Machine and take a screenshot to prove that your website published the content before your competitor and report it to Google.

      I'm not sure if it will work but if you invested a lot of resources in that content production, it's worth trying it.
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  • Exactly copied or re-writing version?
  • LIG; Let It Go.

    Feel the fear of loss/thieving and release it. Good exercise for scale. Because as your presence grows you physically cannot prevent it. Trying to do so kills your scale and keeps you playing small.
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    • Banned


      Ignore your problems and they go away?
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  • Google has gotten better at identifying the original source of content. But it's important that your website has some authority and, ideally, your social media pages too. Consistently good content, real backlinks, and good social signals all help build that authority.

    BTW, any time you publish new content to your site, immediately post links to it on your Google+, Facebook, and Twitter accounts. Google will know that it's yours.
  • Google can tell which piece of content was first. You can file a DMCA request with Google so that they remove your stolen content from its index. Here is a guide that will help:
    Report Duplicate Content to Google - Filling a DMCA Request
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    • Google cannot tell which piece of content was published first. You are lying.
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