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**esdee** · 01-03-2009, 10:17 AM

I found out that a site is linking to my blog. This site has no original contents and is only posting "scraped" articles. Is it possible that Google will punish me because of this?

**chrishirst** · 01-03-2009, 10:22 AM

Nope,

**jitendraag** · 01-03-2009, 12:40 PM

If that was possible I will take out all my competitors by making new sites with scrapped content and point to their site.

**ajcones** · 01-04-2009, 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by esdee

I found out that a site is linking to my blog. This site has no original contents and is only posting "scraped" articles. Is it possible that Google will punish me because of this?

Nope. The one will be punish is his site and not yours.

**webcosmo** · 01-04-2009, 11:49 PM

Google never punished for duplicate content; its a hype. Rather G gives less credit to those guys making sure they get low rankings for their duplicate page targeted keywords.

**youngheart** · 01-05-2009, 12:28 AM

We can't stop people who want to link to us! Just don't link back to them because they got lousy content !

**pintk** · 01-05-2009, 10:36 AM

Google wont penalise for those acts on which there is no control of yours. Google mentioned it in their webmaster blogs.

So just do not worry about this.

**micoblanco** · 01-07-2009, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by esdee

I found out that a site is linking to my blog. This site has no original contents and is only posting "scraped" articles. Is it possible that Google will punish me because of this?

No. Google will not punish your site. Why? Simply because if Google will give punishment in that manner... all webmasters and SEO specialist will try to make websites with scraped contents and linked it to their competitors' sites. In that way their competitors penalized/punished. Make sense? hehe

**Limotek** · 01-07-2009, 11:11 AM

I don't think Google even punishes the site that is doing the scraping. As far as I know and have seen, Google will only count the first version of a page it encounters and ignores all the others subsequently. I think if a website relies purely on scraped content then it doesn't do well as there is no unique/orignal content and so Google has nothing to include, not because it has been penalised. (Please correct me if you've seen otherwise).

**chrishirst** · 01-07-2009, 12:03 PM

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Google will only count the first version of a page it encounters and ignores all the others subsequently

Nope.

It will filter out what the algo determines is the "least important"

**eric8476** · 01-07-2009, 02:45 PM

no, the site links to you

**avor** · 01-07-2009, 08:27 PM

and what if you own both sites with diffrent URL's and part of it have the same content. Exactly the same! What will happen?

**amerie** · 01-08-2009, 08:07 AM

No ..

**johnlloyd** · 01-08-2009, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by avor

and what if you own both sites with diffrent URL's and part of it have the same content. Exactly the same! What will happen?

still google won't punish your site!

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...-scrapers.html

**esdee** · 01-09-2009, 05:43 AM

Do you mean I can copy and paste as long as I'm copying from my own blog?

**micoblanco** · 01-09-2009, 05:55 AM

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Originally Posted by esdee

Do you mean I can copy and paste as long as I'm copying from my own blog?

Yes you can, but what's the purpose of copying your site's content to another site you own? I can't think of any valid reason why you should do that.

Remember, Google loves FRESH and UNIQUE content.

**Webnauts** · 01-09-2009, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by esdee

I found out that a site is linking to my blog. This site has no original contents and is only posting "scraped" articles. Is it possible that Google will punish me because of this?

No need to worry.

**1tigerlivejob** · 01-09-2009, 09:00 AM

No don't worry about that it happens to me too

**sarahlewis300** · 01-09-2009, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by johnlloyd

still google won't punish your site!

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...-scrapers.html

Yeah you won't have to worry about it. They only sandbox if they catch you with your proverbial "hands in the cookie jar" sort of speak. If you did it straight out, that's one thing, but this is an area where you're free and clear. Besides, like the others said the a.r. will catch the duplicate content on those sites and mark them of less importance. After repeated crawls, it'll eventually have minimal effect on rankings.

**chrishirst** · 01-09-2009, 12:30 PM

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They only sandbox if they catch you with your proverbial "hands in the cookie jar" sort of speak

The so called "sandbox" has nothing to do with this.

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Besides, like the others said the a.r. will catch the duplicate content on those sites and mark them of less importance. After repeated crawls, it'll eventually have minimal effect on rankings.

Wrong on all counts