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

"Google crawls site A every hour and site B once in a day. Site B writes an article, site A copies it changing time stamp. Site A gets crawled first by Googlebot. Whose content is original in Google's eyes and rank highly? If it's A, then how does that do justice to site B?" Kunal Pradhan, Ahmedabad, India

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• google
• seo

[Webbassmann]

google can crash the web? nice.

[claw787]

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

[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!