A typical issue for a new or not yet so popular content site is having their content scraped by a site that may look more authoritative than their site. When that happens, it is possible that Google will rank the your content on a site that is not yours - yes, the stolen content site.
Google has a scraper algorithm but that can work to hurt original content owners in the situation above. So what can you do?
A WebmasterWorld thread is having conversation just on that topic. They are discussing using services to help Google spot the content on your site before they spot it on a scraper site. Some of those techniques include:
- Pinging Google through services like SubPubHubbub
- Posting the content on social networking sites like Google+, Twitter and Facebook
- Making the page live without the content and then once the search engine crawls it, launch the content on the page hoping the spiders come back sooner.
- Use the Fetch as GoogleBot feature in Webmaster Tools
- Try Google Blog Search's pinging service.
Share your ideas to this common issue.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
