How can I make sure that Google knows my content is original?

[alphabert77]

@GoogleWebmasterHelp Also, what's happened with reporting stolen/duplicate content form? Filling out my daily DMCA request isn't the way to go. Stealing content takes a second. Filling out forms and legal shit takes hours. If Google is so good at spotting duplicates, why such a hassle? Why make it easy for thieves (no consequences) and so hard for orginal copywriters? I got people stealing my customers' content without even bothering to change links and company names! But they're still ranking!

[alphabert77]

@GoogleWebmasterHelp Sorry Matt, but Google isn't very good at spotting original content. I wrote an article (job vacancy) on my website, waited for Google to index it, after indexing I posted the same article on a job site, including a link to the original version. Guess what happened? The original got buried and the duplicate on the job site is ranking. The job site is PR5, mine PR6. So explain to me, because all the things you mention here are simply not true.

[niwanasod]

awesome

[R4v7n94]

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[JackScheper]

Has Google ever heard of copyright law? These techies need to get out of their "problem space" and get into the real world. How about instead of making me file thousands of DMCA "takedown requests", Google just respect the copyriight notices on my pages as required by law?

[JackScheper]

Has Google ever heard of copyright law? These techies need to get out of their "problem space" and get into the real world. How about instead of making me file thousands of DMCA "takedown requests", Google just respect the copyriight notices on my pages as required by law?

[cadchr01]

Don't use the subpubhubbub wordpress plug in called "PuSHPress". Their wordpress plug in will crawl the site but also ping and crawl the ads on the site and, if you are using PPC advertising like adsense, you'll have a bunch of invalid "clicks" which could lead to having an account disabled.

[cadchr01]

Don't use the subpubhubbub wordpress plug in called "PuSHPress". Their wordpress plug in will crawl the site but also ping and crawl the ads on the site and, if you are using PPC advertising like adsense, you'll have a bunch of invalid "clicks" which could lead to having an account disabled.

[bigal21110]

thank you soooooo much for this. I had some issues with this in the past and I found doing twitter\social media links as well as pinging was the best thing to do. Also linking from another blog to the article

[techtronikusa]

So, what Matt Cutts is essentially saying is that Google has absolutely no clue who the owner of the article is. All his suggestions (DCMA and SPAM) are all manual human submissions, not a programmatic level, and Google is extremely slow to take action on them.

It all boils down to this: those are have higher PageRank and are spidered more often win regardless whether they produce original content on steal it! Wow!

[Webbassmann]

google can crash the web? nice.

[Webbassmann]

google can crash the web? nice.

[agampanwar]

I would say two things -

(A). You are logical when described the situation

(B). You carefully took away the real question and add a "report a spam" funda - interesting approach when you do not want to give straight and clear answer.

[tubalreversal]

Looking good Matt, there is always a few gems.

What are the new tags I like the meta tag author and can see how these can be used to look at spam reports, if we all do a spam report and googlebot sees many tag discrepancies associated with the oft reported site.

I use pingomatic to announce my new posts, recently I have been persuaded to use facebook and now you would have me tweet :)

[macfilas]

eeeeeey the same famous shirt. is there any fanpage of it? should be one!

[claw787]

Yeah, spam reports. We all know how effective they are.

[claw787]

Wait!. So Google has architecture to almost crawl the whole web at any given time?? And they don't do it because it can crash the web?.... Skynet indeed.

[nuerotec]

Matt I glad JohnMu had Google's DMCA form fixed. I will sign up for Twitter an set up pubsubhub, but is that going to help if my site has a Panda penalty? Google has crossed the line of Fair Use by removing search results for the original content creator with Panda as soon as new posts are scraped.

No wonder you are hiring.

[anatolian20]

wow Matt. that was the longest video of you i think. :)

[BehindBen]

pub sub hub hub? Whaaat?

[BOBXLII]

@BehindBen Just do a search for the PubSubHubbub protocol on the web. It is essentially a decentralized protocol that allows feeds to make real-time pings or announcements of new information or changes to other automated systems.

[ViranteSEM]

There are lots of things you can do to help protect yourself. Leave links in your article that point back to the article, so if the copiers don't strip HTML, their copy links back to you. Include your brand name in all content when possible. You can drop a canonical tag in the content and, if they don't strip that, their rankings will pass to you. If there are images in your post, you can make sure that those images are branded and, possibly, won't show when referred directly from another page.

[YRopars]

Matt, thanks for this insightful video. How is possible for someone to see if a piece of content e.g. a paragraph is published somewhere else across the web? Is google make some tools available for this?

[warbar]

@YRopars

I'm trying to provide you with a website that does this, but it gets blocked. I'll try it this way. c-o-p-y-s-c-a-p-e-d-o-t-c-o-m

[srikanth94]

yeah dmca does work,,,,, LOL!!!!

[MUKAETOVmk]

Good watch :)