To check whether an article has been indexed on your blog, conduct a search for the article title in quotation marks – when the article on your blog has been indexed you should see your site ranking for the search phrase.

Thanks,
Alex

Janet

The only time that somebody copying your content is an issue is when their website has more authority than yours (ie. a higher PageRank than yours).

What you’ll probably find is that sites copying content from you will usually have a lower PageRank than yours because they haven’t taken the time to create quality content or build quality links to their site.

Saying that, if somebody links to your site from theirs, then duplicate content will not be an issue for your website as Google will treat their page as a reference (ie. duplicate) of the unique material on your site.

Hope this helps.

Alex

I have a question: if someone is deliberately copying original content from my blog to their own, what kind of penalty am I facing? This person is so lame copying that he even copies all the internal links that I included in the post, i.e., links to my own other and previous posts in my blog..

What should I do?
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Antonio

To answer your question I really need more information about which pages you have rewritten and what you did with the old pages.

If all the pages you are referring to are on your own website, then you would probably need to setup a 301 redirect from the old pages to the new pages.

If not, then I would need more information to provide an accurate answer.

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Alex

You should always rewrite the wording of each blog, rather than just substituting words.

And when you are writing a blog you should be writing for humans, not the search engines.

Importantly, why are you writing the same content on 3 different blogs? If the content is the same, it would be far better to manage a single blog and focus on all your time and effort on writing the best possible articles you can.

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Alex

ie: main blog posts daily. category blog posts twice a week. There are 3 subcategory blogs that handle the content of the main blog but change it through out the post.

Is this possible?

Thanks

Duplicate content issues that arise from other sites copying your content are an issue of authority and indexing.

If your site has authority and is being indexed frequently, any article posted on your blog will be indexed and ownership attributed to your site right away.

The problem arises when your own site has low authority and is not being indexed quickly. If another site with more authority than yours copies your content without linking back to you then your site may be seen as the duplicate, even though you are the original author.

The best way to build up your own authority is to post articles to your blog frequently (ie once per week or fortnight) and then build exposure to those articles with social bookmarking and article marketing.

Thanks,

Alex

Having automatic updates from your blog to your Facebook is usually fine because Facebook (or Twitter) only takes a snippet of information from the blog and then links back to the blog for the full article.

As long as there is a link back to the original source (ie your blog) then you want have any duplicate content issues.

Thanks,

Alex

It depends how much text is duplicated on the two sites. The closer the content of each site matches the other, the higher the risk of one of those sites being seen as duplicate content.

If you own both websites it would be best to completely rewrite each website independently of one another. This is the best way of ensuring your sites get maximum SEO value.

Using the same snippets of information on both sites is fine, so long as there is a significant amount of unique content on each site.

Alex