Hi All, I have just taken a paragraph of our home page and did a Google Search, We are position 2, I checked our competitors website and they have copied our text and even left our company name in. With us been position 2 are been penalized for this I would of thought we would have been position 1, can we report this to Google?

 

Thanks

Are they position 1?

 

I don't think you get penalised in the way you might imagine, if Google finds 2 sets of the same content, it simply chooses one as the original, both don't get marked down.

Are they position 1?

Yeah they are position 1 for the second paragraph of our home page even though they have left our company name in, all together our company name is on their page 3 times.

 

Does adding Google Author rich text snippets help prevent this, I am sure I read some where it does, i will take a look t see if this is an option.

 

Thanks

http://webdesign.about.com/od/html5tags/qt/rel-author-authorship.htm

 

Definitely put it on there. I don't think it'll make much difference now the content is in their hands but it'll good for future work.

 

To add on to what Lewwy has said, they'll usually favour the website which has higher authority.

 

It wouldn't, however, be preventing you from being in first position. There isn't as much importance in content as people think there actually is.

 

Google only says have great and unique content for user experience. SEO's say have great and unique content so that people link to you. Content isn't like getting backlinks where you're given more weight because you're content is "great"

 

Have you emailed the company?

I'd be interested in knowing the website, I might even be able to run a backlink analysis to see if there are any obvious reasons they are beating you.

I'd be interested in knowing the website, I might even be able to run a backlink analysis to see if there are any obvious reasons they are beating you.

PM Sent

Have you emailed the company?

No Not Yet I Thought I Would Research it first but getting mixed views from people saying it needs to be copyrighted or any one can take it

 

Thank you both

Lewwy will have it cracked once he compares the two websites for you

If it is of any use to you from Googleing around i found that you can report duplicate content to Google and you can also use an adon to Google Chrome to make it easier

 

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-webspam-report-by-/efinmbicabejjhjafeidhfbojhnfiepj

Can you PM me the search term they are beating you for? You say the second paragraph, but I can't find it on your website.

 

Domain level analysis with http://opensiteexplorer.com tell us that ELITE's website is superior on all metrics except 'Linking C Blocks' (45 / 46), which means that it looks to Google like the links are coming from the same group of sites. You are only down by one though.

 

The other metrics are all pretty close, especially the Page Authority (45 / 42) and the MozTrust (5.72 / 5.42).

 

As I say, I'd love to know the term that is giving you trouble. The stats say you should be beating him generally, you blow him out of the water with both internal and external links..

What's your website Elite?

Search engine optimization is changing horrible After adapting Google Panda and Penguin. So that If you will do spamming (Duplicate Contant) then you will never get ranking in your website. The duplicate contant refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content.

Hi Jeson Dexter,

 

Have you any exprerience with webiste hijacking ? one of the leading seo blog dejanseo doing case study on this Google feature and make your view here.

 

dejanseo.com.au/hijacked/

 

This is huge case study and i can't express it here. Hope you all guyes go there and make your review at here after R&D

 

In short Google gives priority to authity website not smaller website

WTF, why not yet?

 

For the company I work for, I've had content stolen 4 times this year alone. Each time I've immediately called up the offending company and kicked their ass - saying take down the content immediately. It's your content that has been stolen, end of.

Because i was getting advice first. with the advice from Lewwy and Jason i decided to do some more research and came across Googles spam tool you can add to Google Chrome i reported them and they replied

 

 

Thank you for submitting a spam report for this site: http://www.***********.com/*******.html

We take the quality of our results very seriously. We investigate spam reports, prioritizing by search result impact, and take appropriate action when we uncover abuse. In especially egregious cases, we will remove spammy websites from our index so they don't show up in search results at all.

We appreciate your taking the time to help us improve our service for your fellow users around the world. By helping us eliminate spam, you're saving millions of people time, effort and energy.

 

A few days later our competitor started to drop of page 1, much better than calling them up and kicking their ass?

I asked this question a month ago its all sorted now

Duplicate content is strictly prohibted by Google

I found the same case earlier as well.

 

This happens because the website who copied content will be in ranking 1 because that domain has a fresh content whereas the same content in your website is older for Google. Google always give priority to the fresh content website to rank on top results. But i don't think this is happening currently as well after Google Latest panda update. They should have penalised the website who has a content copied from other website.

 

You can try mailing to Google reporting about the issue. They will surely come back with the solution.

Duplicate content is content that appears on the Internet in more than one place.google panda has banned so many websites having duplicate content.So try to make your website content more unique as per search engine rules.

When writing SEO content, you should first perform some keyword analysis to determine what keywords or other relevant keyword You want to used must be follow keyword density,SEO content is to first make sure it is unique and that it hasn’t been copied from another source. You definitely want to avoid any duplicate content issues..I think Duplicate content on multiple domainsis the major problem in seo.

1. Send them an email telling them you own the copyright to the content by default and if they don't remove it you'll be filing a DMCA complaint with Google to have their page removed from the index.

 

2. If they don't comply, send Google a DMCA complaint and they'll remove the page from the index.

 

Simple as that!

hi..Duplicate Content has banned by google panda. If you are not following the google webmaster guidelines,it puts your websites on spamindexing. Can you suggest the solution for duplicate content issues ?

If it is of any use to you from Googleing around i found that you can report duplicate content to Google and you can also use an adon to Google Chrome to make it easier

Thanks for the heads up on this extension very handy!

 

In my experience just give the company a call and drop them an email asking them to remove the copied content and show them to copyscape...

Has always worked!