Hi Dp-ers, Please give me a suggestion. I found this site: wpstock.co.tv/2010/11/submitting-wordpress-blog-to-yahoo.html Copied exactly the same of my article which is: http://www.blog.web6.org/submitting-wordpress-blog-to-yahoo/ But they put a link to my blog post. Will this hurt my SEO? because i want to contact the site's owner if it does. Please help!! Thank you so much in advance.
Hello I see you come from Germany.. mee too so... Mach dir keine Sorgen! Wenn dein Artikel bzw. Post vorher von google gescannt wurde als das von den kopierten. Dann sieht google doch wer was von wem kopiert. Derjenige der das geklaut hat schädigt sich nur selbst. Der link der da angeblich als quelle angezeigt ist, ist doch ein toller Backlink Du kannst es auch per Copyscape überprüfen... -------------------------------------------------------------------- I think the robber will hurt his Seo nur yours Duplicate Content... Google see and feels everything.
Since you are the first site to be indexed with the content, and you got a link back. Alot of blogs encourage users to republish articles to receive that free link.
Yeah, as long as they credit you then it's just the same as if someone is quoting you. But if they've taken your content without your permission, I think it could be registered as duplicate content and might hurt your SEO.
Well as long as they haven't plagiarized, this won't hurt you a bit! Don't worry, it's actually a link back to your website!
@All, thank you for the great respond. Actually i don't mind they put some videos of mine, but i MIND when they put exact content as mine. Especially without asking me, eventhough they put a link. They should use my feed's excerpt than copy my post and paste it on their sites, including using my images .__. Thank you all! PS. @seobunny, why was she banned?
Just to clarify this for people here - without a link you would need to worry about duplicate content filters. If two sites have the exact same content with no notation of each other - Google will basically weigh up the other site factors (PR/traffic/ect.) and give the top one the spot, while blocking the other from the index. In the case where a link is present on one - it acts as a one way citation, telling Google exactly where the content originated (thus it is not duplicate, but cited). With link good, without link very bad. Cheers, Kris S. (P.S. this is only in regards to the effects on SEO. I would contact them in your case and ask them to remove the content, and use your feed ect. If this is contained within your privacy policy then you have the legal right and can enforce it (if you have the money and think its worth it - which is generally the problem)