{"id":90,"date":"2007-06-11T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=90"},"modified":"2007-06-11T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T11:20:00","slug":"check-to-see-if-your-content-has-been-copied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2007\/06\/11\/check-to-see-if-your-content-has-been-copied\/","title":{"rendered":"Check to See If Your Content Has Been Copied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post, I noted that Google is really cracking down on duplicate content.  All site owners should work to clean up their site to make sure that duplicate pages like printer friendly versions of pages are blocked from <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">spidering<\/span> using the robots.<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">txt<\/span> file.  This will prevent Google from dinging your site for duplicate content.<\/p>\n<p>I did get a comment from a reader which pointed to a site where you can also check to see if someone has snatched your content or duplicated what you have done.  Click my post title to visit <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">CopyScape<\/span>.com.<\/p>\n<p>When I ran my own site through the tool, I found another site that had scraped several blog posts <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">verbatim<\/span> from my site and passed the content off as theirs.  <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">Hmm<\/span>, that&#8217;s a copyright violation.  I have notified the sites!  I do not mind if you mention my content or show one or two paragraphs, but you must link back to the full article on my site.  To simply snatch my content and say it is your intellectual property is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the Google duplicate content algorithm change is all about!  Identifying the legitimate owner and blocking from the index other sites that show this content.  In some cases Google is identifying the rightful owner by the post date and by authority.  I believe in the next year or even months to come, that we will even see a digital authority head tag tied to domains that Google will pick up to verify the site owner.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, watch your site for duplicate content, check to see who has scraped your content, and if you have scraped my content please remove it or link back to my site and give me credit with a link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post, I noted that Google is really cracking down on duplicate content. All site owners should work to clean up their site to make sure that duplicate pages like printer friendly versions of pages are blocked from spidering using the robots.txt file. This will prevent Google from dinging your site for duplicate content. I did get a comment from a reader which pointed to a site where you can also check to see if someone has snatched your content or duplicated what you have done. Click my post title to visit CopyScape.com. When I ran my own site through the tool, I found another site that had scraped several blog posts verbatim from my site and passed the content off as theirs. Hmm, that&#8217;s a copyright violation. I have notified the sites! I do not mind if you mention my content or show one or two paragraphs, but you must link back to the full article on my site. To simply snatch my content and say it is your intellectual property is wrong. This is what the Google duplicate content algorithm change is all about! Identifying the legitimate owner and blocking from the index other sites that show this content. In some cases Google is identifying the rightful owner by the post date and by authority. I believe in the next year or even months to come, that we will even see a digital authority head tag tied to domains that Google will pick up to verify the site owner. In the meantime, watch your site for duplicate content, check to see who has scraped your content, and if you have scraped my content please remove it or link back to my site and give me credit with a link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Check to See If Your Content Has Been Copied | The Web Authority<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2007\/06\/11\/check-to-see-if-your-content-has-been-copied\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Check to See If Your Content Has Been Copied | The Web Authority\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a previous post, I noted that Google is really cracking down on duplicate content. 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