Comments on: Protect Yourself From Duplicate Content Issues

By: mia

mia — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:47:14 +0000

Duplicate content is indeed a very serious issue if you aren’t watching. It can lower your rankings fast.

By: mia

mia — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:44:21 +0000

I was a victim also years ago. Someone tried to get my site knocked down in Google rankings by copying my full code and posting on a site. The site purchased a bogus domain and offered no business purposes what so ever, only my entire text and content word for word. I contacted Google personally and showed them all the inquiry searches that the site pulled for my own copied content and I also contact Godaddy for which the site was hosted on. I then submitted all the required forms (NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT) and the site was shut down and kicked out of the searches. Keep yahoo and Google contact emails handy. It works!

By: Nimit Kashyap

Nimit Kashyap — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:55:33 +0000

I am very confused about submission in RSS feeds, since they pull the content of my website and then it will create a duplicate content for me.

So should i submit my site to RSS directories? I am very confused, i hope to get the answer from you.

By: Gino Carpio

Gino Carpio — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:22:14 +0000

This very difficult issue to solve. But yes… will avoid duplication! thank you for sharing searchenginejournal

By: Friseur

Friseur — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:01:14 +0000

Yeah, unless you keep your contents to a minimum (like we do).

By: SEO Web Design

SEO Web Design — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:42:07 +0000

I agreed with the fact that webmasters need to constantly scan the net for duplicate and violations of your copyrighted content.

By: Jan from Igloo

Jan from Igloo — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:28:58 +0000

Avoid proxies using your site as well. Proxies are very easy way how to steal any content… I found a one last week. Just get the IP of such proxy, open your .htaccess and use this code:

order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx #PROXY IP HERE

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 10:15:42 +0000

A great article to read and the list of resources is good too. Halfdeck’s recommendation is very helpful as well.

By: Halfdeck

Halfdeck — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:07:01 +0000

When it comes to duplicate content, all you really need is this link: Adam Lasnik's "Deftly dealing with Duplicate Content."

By: Matt Keegan

Matt Keegan — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:38:49 +0000

A Creative Commons notice won’t deter all thievery, just content theft from the uninformed.

Anything published to the internet is immediately copyrighted, no notice needs to be given.

RSS feeds seem to be a popular way to “borrow” content and repost it. Everyone should familiarize themselves with copyright law including best practices as outlined here:

http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/Intellectualproperty/useofnet.htm