Syndicated Content Appearing Above Original
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Hi.
I run a travel blog and my content is often re-posted by related sites with a backlink to my content (and full credit etc) but still ranks above my article in Google.
Any ideas what I can do to stop this happening?
Thanks
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I think that it's partly because my content is not 'blog-like' it's more like a travel guide and an events guide and some products so it might not look right to people but the drop was dramatic.
By the way, I was just looking at your site. Would you be open to a guest article? I run an Israel travel site and could write about the 'real Israel'! Of course, I can link in exchange etc/whatever you like...
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wow, that is amazing.
I've been encouraging our authors to get onto G+ to add authorship.
(I have 60 so far)
The benefit is the photos with results, but zero traffic improvement.
I wouldn't blame that on authorship either,. There must be something wrong with my site that I haven't fixed yet, but I don't know what it could be. Except I just finished, about 2 weeks ago, finding and removing the last of the duplicate descriptions and titles.
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With some people maybe I need to look at that. Problem is that many of my articles are valid only in short term because they're about events (these are the ones people love to use) so it would take a while for a DMCA to set in right?
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I reversed the authorship and instantly went back to the same level as before though.
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I would not blame that on authorship. I would blame that on an increased level of piracy. Eventually they can strangle your appearance in the SERPs.
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I understand. Those weasels do it with my content too.
When they copy I often use DMCA complaints.
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So annoying! I find that sometimes after a week or two Google corrects itself, sometimes not. I was recommended to install authorship which I did and then found that this problem kind of solved itself, but overall search traffic fell 25%+
...!
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Welcome to my world, Ben.
There are thousands of sites, that post our headline and a snippet of text - some with a link to us, some not.
It is very frustrating. Google buries our page and promotes those guys. Sometimes, there are several of them, all showing in the results pages and our original page is nowhere to be found, buried in the duplicate content, so if you go to the end of the results and redisplay with all the missing pages, there we are on page 1.
I've been trying to overcome this for 18 months now, but I'm not getting anywhere.
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The problem is if they dont syndicate they'll modify and copy.
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It might. It might not.
Content syndication has both Panda and Penguin risks.
And, you have the competitor problem.
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Hmmm. If it isnt fully identical then Google might display both though right?
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They will still have a relevant title tag, and relevant content.
(add this to my original reply)....
The best way to get filtered from the search results is to have an article on another site linking to identical article on your site.
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The interesting thing is that sometimes it's tiny sites with much less authority who are ranking better.
Maybe if I got them to syndicate half the article with a "read more, click here" link that would help?
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This happens because the other sites that post your content have more authority and that gives them a higher ranking. What can you do to prevent this?
-- only syndicate to sites that have less authority than you
-- create different content for syndication that what appears on your website
-- stop syndicating
This is just one reason why I do not syndicate anything. It creates new competitors and feeds existing competitors.
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