Could another site copying my content hurt my ranking?
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Earlier this week I asked why a page of mine might not be ranking locally. (https://moz.com/community/q/what-could-be-stopping-us-from-ranking-locally). Maybe this might be part of the answer – another firm has copied huge chunks of my website copy:
**My company: **https://idearocketanimation.com/video-production-company/
The other company: http://studio3dm.com/studio3dm-com/video/
Could this be causing my page to not rank? And is there anything I can do about it, other than huff and puff to the other firm? (Which I am already doing.)
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Nigel's right in saying that despite everyone loving to say duplicate content has no negative impact on you it definitely does. I've recently had some creep online stalker clone throw away websites of some of my recent backlinks in an effort to cause me ranking issues. I submitted them all to Google for fishing/credential harvest accounts.
REAL LINK
activerain com
**FAKE LINKS **
activerain net
activereign net
REAL LINK
seoeffect com
FAKE LINKS
demo-seoeffect nl
REAL LINK
stripperweb com
FAKE LINKS
clarxidad gq
tirtas cf
hascrafot ga -
Thanks, I've done exactly as you've suggested.
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Hi William
It looks like they have done this to deliberately target you. It doesn't make any sense as it wouldn't be great for them either. The fact is that you are the copyright owner and whatever people may say about copied content not affecting you, duplicate content does and you now both have a virtually identical page.
This is bound to affect you - duplicate content is a no no and whilst Google may elevate you above the other page- which sits in a directory it will still have an effect.
I would open a copyright dispute with Google - pretty simple to do: Here:
https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905?hl=en
Hit 'web search' and I have a legal dispute that is not mentioned above.
Get it removed.
Regards
Nigel
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