Copyscape Duplicate Content Ownership Question

[anthonytjm]

We have a site that has had its content copied verbatim to numerous other sites and articles. We were advised to change our content but the content is originally ours. Does google take that into account before they apply duplicate penalties?

And shouldn't copyscape be able to show this information in their reports? It just doesnt seem right that the originating author would have to change content because everyone else is stealing it.

Any clarification on this?

[edwardrj]

Google is pretty good and identifying the original source of content; however, it isn't perfect. I suggest pursuing the options to have the content removed from the scraper/spam sites whenever possible.

[Bryan_Loconto]

Hi Anthony,

The first article that gets indexed gets the credit and the other sites are in punishment risks if they are not tracking back to your article.

You can also contact them and tell them to remove it or link back to your site. If they disagree you can report them to Google.

Hope this helps.