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Publishing on Blogger - safety net against scrapers?

         

lfgoal

5:45 pm on Jan 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

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I publish a blog on Google's Blogger service that complements one of my regular sites.

For pages that exist on my regular site, I routinely find scraped content appearing elsewhwere, and occasionally entirely stolen pages.

However, for pages that appear on my blog (of which there are hundreds and, these days, are actually written better than what I originally created for the main site in this particular content niche), I have yet to find scraped or stolen content appearing in google's search engine results.

This makes me wonder. Is publishing a blog on google's blogger actually a safer and smarter thing than I thought?

What I mean is, if you publish content on a google-owned server THAT HAS NEVER BEEN PUBLISHED BEFORE ANYWHERE ELSE it should be relatively easy for google to determine where the content originated (from a blog using the blogger service) and also easy to weed out future scrapings from appearing in the google search index.

Anyone else have this opinion? In other words, do you protect your blog content from scrapers and thieves (at least in the google search results) by using the blogger service?

bwnbwn

8:41 pm on Jan 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

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One of the biggest factors is does the blog show up as well as the site pages being scraped.

I would assume this has some bearing on the site or blog coming to the attention of getting targeted by these pest.

Is the blog hosted by Google or on your server is anothert factor to consider.

lfgoal

8:58 pm on Jan 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

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"Is the blog hosted by Google or on your server is anothert factor to consider"

AS I SAID, the blog is hosted by google on blogger.

"does the blog show up as well as the site pages being scraped"

AS I SAID, copied text from this blog does NOT show up in google search for any of its 500+ pages in any way, shape or form, not even in the form of scraped results.

Typically, any site that has 500+ unique pages which A. rank well for their various tersm, and B. have high pagerank, will have some of it pages scraped or copied. But as I said, when I check for copied content in google, I see no evidence of copied/scraped content being RETURNED IN THE SEARCH RESULT SETS" for any of the pages. All of the blog's pages, however, are in the index and all rank well for their targeted phrases.

So, again the question: Is it likely that, because the content is being originally published on google-owned servers (translation: never having appeared elsewhere before), content copied from the blog gets zero traction in the google search index?

Let me clarify for those may misunderstand. I'm not saying that the blog is not getting scraped. ALL sites with rankings and appreciable pagerank get scraped eventually. What I'm wondering is this: is the fact that the content is being "born" on google servers serving as a prophylactic and a preventative against scraping?

tedster

9:29 pm on Jan 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

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It's an interesting idea - and it might well be true. If anyone sees a counter-example, that would be valuable to know. That is, does anyone see a Blogger URL where scraped content is also being shown in the results under the scraper site's URL?

Please don't post the actual search, just a "Yes, I see this" is all that's needed, thanks.