Dealing with More Serious Forms of Plagiarism

Last time we discussed how you can deal with people who use portions of your original content and post it on their site without permission. Usually plagiarism of that kind is simply an oversight and most website owners would gladly cite you as the source and of course link back to you instead of having to delete portions of their own website or a blog post.

There are times when plagiarism is more serious in that it copies a rather large portion of your website’s content or the entire website itself. This cases of plagiarism obviously becomes a big problem since it can and will probably affect your ranking. Crawlers tend to not crawl a site which they have determined to be a mirror site of another to avoid duplicate results in their SERPs. If this happens and the crawler mistakes your site for the mirror site then not only will your page rank be affected but you won’t even be listed in the SERP.

In cases like this it is still recommended that you take the diplomatic route first. You can contact the website or blog owner and ask them to remove the offending website or webpages. If they do not comply then you can contact their hosting service and ask them to pressure the owner to remove the offending content. If this does not work then that is the time to turn into a tattle-tale by submitting a complaint to search engines. Search engines such as Google take such things seriously and really do act upon reports of plagiarism.

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By Sparky in Blogs, Content, Google, Google Rank, Plagiarism, Tips

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