Interesting case of duplicate content

parasitus84

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• Sep 15, 2016

• #1

Let's imagine that my website duplicates content from another website. If the source website decides to remove their content (which will eventually be de-indexed from Google as well) and I decide to leave it as it is, how will the content be handled by search engines? Will Google see my as the "source" from then on?

Thanks!

 

starki

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• Sep 15, 2016

• #2

There is no original source for Google, if the same content is found on several sites, Google ranks the site best they see as trustworthy and authorative. So, if you copy content from another site and this site goes offline, it's certainly an advantage for you in terms of ranking...but, if e.g. a much stronger site than yours copies this content, too, your rankings are gone quickly. This chain could be continued indefinately, bigger fish fish eats smaller fish.

 

SEOplusplus

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• Sep 15, 2016

• #3

in some cases Google define the page date, and then it can define that you are the original article writer, and in all cases if the another website remove these pages, then you will get ranked for these articles instead by some backlinks & social signals

 

bartosimpsonio

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• Sep 15, 2016

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Back in 2008 I made a ton of money from this. 100% accidentally - seriously.

There was a source of free content. I copied it with good intentions, for my audience and i cited the source. 100% legit, creative commons license.

Then the original site went down and I became the sole source of that info. My ad revenue shot through the roof. A Google update killed the whole thing a while later on that content farm update.

 

SEO FOX

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• Sep 16, 2016

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Always post unique hand written content, not copied content. It will affect your site anytime.

 

humphrytools

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• Sep 16, 2016

• #6

such cases are rare occurences so nothing can be said for sure. Make your own decisions.

 

jani01

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• Sep 16, 2016

• #7

As said earlier, mostly big G, is ready to rank content of good authority sites but its not not fall for News, specially press release stuff.