Hey i started a blog around a month ago and i believe in writing original and unique content. There were some keywords already for which i was ranking on the first page on google. But today while trying to find out my rank for some keywords i was shocked. I see that some people have just copied the content from my blog word to word and post it in their blogs. And the sad part is that these blogs are ranking higher than my own blog. My blog is nowhere to be seen now for some of the keyword for which i used to rank earlier. Here are the links i found http://supertricks1.blogspot.com/2011/08/7-coolestawesome-google-im-feeling.html(this one is removed now) copied from here http://digital-worldz.blogspot.com/2011/07/7-coolest-google-im-feeling-lucky.html http://itkitab.blogspot.com/2011/08/okozo-interactive-wallpapers-are-fun.html copied from here here http://digital-worldz.blogspot.com/2011/07/okozo-interactive-wallpapers-are-fun.html In fact the blog itkitab.blogspot.com copied almost all my posts.. Now this is really irritating me. Google boasts so much about providing quality search results with no spam, no duplicate content. But how can it do this if it cannot even distinguish between original content and duplicate content. Also tell me if there is any way to ban these sites. I know that won't be the perfect solution. There may be other blogs too out there that just copies content and are ranking well in google. So what is google doing to fight against these?? I am really sad right now. I don't feel like blogging anymore
What do you want Google to do, police the web for you? Have you tried playing Angry Bird? That might help get your anger out.
I have gotten plenty of content stealing websites de-indexed by Google, banned from adsense and shut down by their website host. The fact that Google owns Blogspot should make the whole process even easier for them to handle. Google has a specific page where you can file a DMCA report etc.
oh come on. How would have you felt if you were in my position. Blogging for a month and already facing people stealing my content and google appreciating that. I just want google to have some algorithm with which it can determine original and duplicate content.
Send a polite request to the person who copied your blog. If the owner doesn't remove the site, report it to Google.
ya sent an email to the first blog and he removed it. But there is no way to contact the admin of the second blog so i reported it. But again there may be other blogs too that may have copied content from my blog or any other blog for that matter. Its time google automatically bans such users..
I have that plugin, though I have only set it to prevent selecting text because disabling right-click often means a higher bounce rate.
you mean click bombing and all. Ya i know that I think google should add a like and dislike buttons on blogs just like in youtube. So if you find something spammy or useless you can just dislike it or -1 it. That may work getting rid of such sites..
This is sad new for me also. That blog should be banned if possible and why google do this types of things?
My suggestion is not to panic if your search engine ranking go up or down  on some day, take it easy. It should be the mean value you should be looking into. If your site at first position for a whole month and due to some reasons goes to 3rd page, probably it'll come back to first page soon. So chill