Very interesting and informative article – thanks for the link. Every blogger cites content from other sources now and again, and everyone is vying for the best Google rankings, so it’s good to know how Google treats this kind of “duplication.”
In some cases, the plagiarist will get your traffic!
There’s this website called rojo.com that has stolen my work (and obviously the work of others). On certain articles of mine, they actually get the traffic – and I don’t show up at all.
erin says:
Very interesting and informative article – thanks for the link. Every blogger cites content from other sources now and again, and everyone is vying for the best Google rankings, so it’s good to know how Google treats this kind of “duplication.”
December 19, 2006 — 5:58 pm
Doug Quance says:
I’ll tell you how they treat it…
In some cases, the plagiarist will get your traffic!
There’s this website called rojo.com that has stolen my work (and obviously the work of others). On certain articles of mine, they actually get the traffic – and I don’t show up at all.
Here’s one:
http://www.rojo.com/story/cOJSN6osmgPowRSF
When I google my content, they beat me out of my own stuff.
I sent them a cease and desist this morning…
December 20, 2006 — 7:56 am