A WebmasterWorld thread asks a question many bloggers and writers ask themselves. What if a site is routinely stealing your content and links to your site as the original source. Plus, in this case, the site that stole your content has a high PageRank value with many internal links.
Should you let it slide or should you do something about it?
Why would you want to let it slide? Well, you are getting links from a site that has high PageRank with many other links pointing to it. Those links might boost your site's popularity.
Why should you stop the theft? Well, this site can easily outrank you for your own articles because it is more popular than yours. Also, do those links really pass that much value? Over time, those links may get so deep into the site that they are buried.
I feel, as a long term strategy, you have to stop the content theft. In the long run your content will should be represented fairly in the search results. Letting people steal your content, when your site is not all that popular, may not be a wise decision.
Member, Quadrille, explained from "experience,"
Whatever "SEO" benefit you'll get from an article farm, you'll almost invariably get more by exclusively self-publishing.If you believe you will get actual human referrals from the article farm, then consider it - and you can judge that likelihood by the quality of the stuff already there.
This goes well with Tamar's recap on Combining Thousands of Duplicate Pages Without Penalty from yesterday.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
