Comments on: How do I Handle Content Scrapers? Can They Hurt My Rankings? http://www.dailyblogtips.com/qa-how-do-i-handle-content-scrapers-can-they-hurt-my-rankings/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:50:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: Best Netbooks http://www.dailyblogtips.com/qa-how-do-i-handle-content-scrapers-can-they-hurt-my-rankings/#comment-1073431 Best Netbooks Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:26:31 +0000 http://www.dailyblogtips.com/?p=3452#comment-1073431 Thanks for clearing that up Daniel I have often wondered the same things myself. Although Chercen's point above is worrying. Thanks for clearing that up Daniel I have often wondered the same things myself. Although Chercen’s point above is worrying.

]]> By: Bill Bolmeier http://www.dailyblogtips.com/qa-how-do-i-handle-content-scrapers-can-they-hurt-my-rankings/#comment-1061022 Bill Bolmeier Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:41:28 +0000 http://www.dailyblogtips.com/?p=3452#comment-1061022 Great info. What happened to me was one of my articles got linked to by a big site which drove tons of short term traffic to my blog and 6 backlinks. When I visit all 6 backlink sites, they are the scraped page from the big site that linked to me. 3 of them came into my comments area for me to approve, 3 went to spam comments. I don't see any difference between the ones marked as spam and the ones not marked as spam. I'll keep searching and reading. I'm googling each site because sometimes other folks have reported those sites as spam. And then I'm wondering if the big site that linked to me doesn't mind that they get scraped. Some site don't seem to mind. I'd love to approve all of them for the backlink juice but I'm unsure about whether it will hurt or help or not. Great info. What happened to me was one of my articles got linked to by a big site which drove tons of short term traffic to my blog and 6 backlinks.

When I visit all 6 backlink sites, they are the scraped page from the big site that linked to me.

3 of them came into my comments area for me to approve, 3 went to spam comments. I don’t see any difference between the ones marked as spam and the ones not marked as spam.

I’ll keep searching and reading. I’m googling each site because sometimes other folks have reported those sites as spam.

And then I’m wondering if the big site that linked to me doesn’t mind that they get scraped. Some site don’t seem to mind.

I’d love to approve all of them for the backlink juice but I’m unsure about whether it will hurt or help or not.

]]> By: Calvin http://www.dailyblogtips.com/qa-how-do-i-handle-content-scrapers-can-they-hurt-my-rankings/#comment-1009666 Calvin Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:12:09 +0000 http://www.dailyblogtips.com/?p=3452#comment-1009666 To "organic chemistry" (comment #32), Officially, Google says that if the copier links back to the source, the source will be credited. However, let me relate my experience: I used to copy my blog posts to ezinearticles.com, with a link back to the original. After all, this is one of the recommended actions by Chris Knight (owner of EZA) and a few other IM gurus as well. Guess what: when searching for the keyword in Google, the copy on EZA can be found, but not the original on my blog. I do not know if Bing and Yahoo do any better than Google regarding this issue. Never had the time to test, and can't be bothered either. To “organic chemistry” (comment #32),

Officially, Google says that if the copier links back to the source, the source will be credited. However, let me relate my experience:

I used to copy my blog posts to ezinearticles.com, with a link back to the original. After all, this is one of the recommended actions by Chris Knight (owner of EZA) and a few other IM gurus as well.

Guess what: when searching for the keyword in Google, the copy on EZA can be found, but not the original on my blog.

I do not know if Bing and Yahoo do any better than Google regarding this issue. Never had the time to test, and can’t be bothered either.

]]> By: organic chemistry http://www.dailyblogtips.com/qa-how-do-i-handle-content-scrapers-can-they-hurt-my-rankings/#comment-1007364 organic chemistry Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:27:16 +0000 http://www.dailyblogtips.com/?p=3452#comment-1007364 The main issue here is if the scraping website owners blog is higher pagerank than yours or higher in backlinks.. If this is the case then it can negatively effect your site as the search engines will think higher backlinks means more trust therefore the original owner.. The link back is the solution, however so many scrapers do not put the link back as well so that can be an issue Overall it can be a very frustrating situation when it happens. The main issue here is if the scraping website owners blog is higher pagerank than yours or higher in backlinks.. If this is the case then it can negatively effect your site as the search engines will think higher backlinks means more trust therefore the original owner..
The link back is the solution, however so many scrapers do not put the link back as well so that can be an issue
Overall it can be a very frustrating situation when it happens.

]]> By: Cherran http://www.dailyblogtips.com/qa-how-do-i-handle-content-scrapers-can-they-hurt-my-rankings/#comment-997416 Cherran Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:18:00 +0000 http://www.dailyblogtips.com/?p=3452#comment-997416 It depends who copies your content. If Google finds the site that copies the content is a trusted site, you are doomed. Frustratingly yes.. that's true... here is the example..... For the query "difference between plant cell and animal cell" The fifth results is http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Difference_between_an_animal_cell_and_a_plant_cell This is a user generated content which is an exact copy of this article http://www.differencebetween.net/science/difference-between-animal-and-plant-cells but the original article is no where to be found in the SERPS. (Actually it dropped after the duplicate content posted and found by Google) The original article was published on July 16 2009. The current Answers.com answer was copied and pasted on 11 Aug 2009. Until the Answer is posted the original article ranked well but after the answer was foud by Google the original article dropped out of the results. It is very unfair to treat duplicate content on the basis of trusted sites. Answers sites are like parasites if they could kill the host, the ecosystem will perish. It is unfair on many fronts one is a person's hardwork is manipulated by others. and a competitor can be easily kicked out of the SERPs by simply copying his popular post and publish it on answers site Yahoo answers or Answers.com. It is unfair and unethical and I am so mad about that. Any thoughts on handling this issue? It depends who copies your content. If Google finds the site that copies the content is a trusted site, you are doomed. Frustratingly yes.. that’s true… here is the example…..

For the query “difference between plant cell and animal cell”
The fifth results is http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Difference_between_an_animal_cell_and_a_plant_cell

This is a user generated content which is an exact copy of this article
http://www.differencebetween.net/science/difference-between-animal-and-plant-cells
but the original article is no where to be found in the SERPS. (Actually it dropped after the duplicate content posted and found by Google)

The original article was published on July 16 2009. The current Answers.com answer was copied and pasted on 11 Aug 2009. Until the Answer is posted the original article ranked well but after the answer was foud by Google the original article dropped out of the results.

It is very unfair to treat duplicate content on the basis of trusted sites. Answers sites are like parasites if they could kill the host, the ecosystem will perish.

It is unfair on many fronts one is a person’s hardwork is manipulated by others. and a competitor can be easily kicked out of the SERPs by simply copying his popular post and publish it on answers site Yahoo answers or Answers.com.

It is unfair and unethical and I am so mad about that.
Any thoughts on handling this issue?

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