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Posted By: Aviva 172 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.domainbits.com)
Category: SEO

There are many ways to sabotage a website, but today I found out that one of my websites was sabotaged in a way that I had never seen before.

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from DarkMatter 172 days ago #

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sphunn because I'm curious what people's suggestions might be.

if the article directories he submitted them to have lots of links and authority, the reposted articles might outrank the originals.

Have your original articles attracted any links? I would try promoting them and getting a few decent links to each. Odds are the duplicated articles are not being promoted actively, so you might be able to beat them in the serps over the long haul. If you can get relevant, quality sites to link to your aticles, Google will pay attention.

from SlightlyShadySEO 172 days ago #

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I would probably hit the article sites with a polite request, then a more forceful copyright infringement claim.

But either way, G's gonna have to loosen up soon. It's WAY to easy to do stuff like this.

from Aviva 172 days ago #

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Thanks SlightlyShadySEO. I had thought about doing that. The problem is that lots of other websites, presumably in good faith, have used these articles, which they obtained from the article sites.

from SlightlyShadySEO 171 days ago #

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@Aviva: I strongly believe that the ones that used the articles were just scrapers(that's normally the case) and probably shouldn't have much impact one way or the other. Given their HISTORY of dupe content, I'd bet that G already has discounted them.

from Aviva 171 days ago #

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I had thought that wouldn't be worth it, but your words are very encouraging. I'll go ahead with doing this. I really appreciate your help SlightlyShadySEO.

from iBrian 171 days ago #

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Curious - did you write these yourself or commission them?

Simply that if every article is copied, and these were commissioned, worth checking that you were the only one in receipt of these and that the same ones haven't been resold.

Just seems a first step to clarify first.

If it is copyright violation - worth considering if worth pursuing legally.

Overall, though - if it's a new domain, it may not be worth worrying much over ranking issues at present anyway - it probably has little authority, but if you're developing the site, for the long term IMO you should be able to stand out over such filters in the longer term. In other words, a short term issue, but one you can push past for the long term.

2c.

from Aviva 171 days ago #

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Thanks for your input Brian. The articles were commissioned, but from several different authors, although I've had commissioned articles re-sold in the past too! So, I don't think it was any of the authors that did this, but I'm checking into it. Hopefully, you're right about this being a short term issue.