Google On Outranking Stolen Content

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Google On Outranking Stolen Content
Search Engine Roundtable
April 8, 2011

One thing with this farmer/panda Google update that seems to be impacting a lot of sites, is that there are many examples of sites producing original content and other sites taking their content and outranking them. In short, Google is confusing the site that created the content and labeling them as a low quality site, and then ranking a site that stole the content above the original content creator.

This has always been an issue for some webmasters. But since the farmer / panda update, it has become more of an issue for these webmasters.
Matt Cutts recently addressed this in a video.

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