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I know some of you are scared about people copying your posts and out-ranking you on Google search engine results page. It's a common thing especially in a country like ours, Nigeria. As funny as it sounds, these guys justifies themselves with the fact that copying posts to outrank the original owner are an act of Grey Hat SEO Technique. This claim is only but a lie. I prefer to see it ad wickedness on the part of all these so called Grey Hat guys. Well, am here to tell you what you can do to help your site rank high even when you have the big guys copying from you and you have little or nothing to do about that.
Note: The first thing you should do when someone copies your post is to send a message to the webmaster to remove the post. Most times, they won't but other times, they will do just that. I will be considering a situation whereby
What can you do on your own to recover your positions for your original posts and start ranking for them too?
Before we can get to that, let's see what happens when someone copies your blog post and paste on his blog.
How someone Can Outrank you by copying your posts
There are some things that happen. It all depends on what and who's Googlebot sees first. Googlebot is very fast, but it only develops fast legs when it comes to websites that are few months old and are regularly updated. This goes to say that if your site is new and less than a month old, maybe three months, then Googlebot will not be visiting your content easily and fast.
When someone copies your post and google sees the person's post first, that's when they can truly outrank you on the long run. Else, you will still be able to surpass them before long. Also, the person who's copying your post needs to have a higher domain and page authority than you to beat you successfully for your original content. If the person is much younger than you and you happen to have higher power, it's a waste of time on the individual's part because you will still rank higher than the copier.
I have mentioned on the long run sometimes here. What do I mean by that? It's simple. Google is not stupid. Yes, you heard me right. Google keeps a proper record of all that's going on in its index. Someone can only outrank your new domain for your keywords only for a while but not forever. With time, as your domain authority builds up and starts matching up with that of those copying from you, Google will also be it's mathematics of ranking. When your domain authority eventually grows, and you are on the same level ground ad those that are copying from you, employ then it's time for Googemployother metrics apart from timing. Eventually, Google will start comparing both the original[yours] and the fake page[the copier's page] with TIME OF CREATION.And that's when you will regain your ranks back!
Google will eventually notice that your page appeared first before that of your competitor and will grant you your rightful place on the search engine for the keyword you are trying to rank for!
Bow, ou have seen how rankings change over time on Google search engine. It's time to look at new things and knows how exactly you are going to increase your domain authority fast and give those copiers their rightful place in the search results page!
In cases where your website domain age is young, and your pages are not yet being indexed automatically by googlebot, the best you can do is to tell Google about the post yourself. You can use the Google's Fetch as Google tool in the webmasters' console area to inform Google about your new posts, and it's that simple. But it doesn't end there. If your blog is new with a weakdomain authority, You will have to do more than before you can start outranking those that are copying your posts.
There are some things one can do. It all starts with making your site more reputable and giving it some value. It's always the case with SEO but this time around, you are trying to rank for your very own creations when others are trying to copy from you and bring you down, so it's a little bit more than just regular SEO.
How to Out-Rank those Copying your Post on Search Engines
1. First, get your post Indexed as explained above.
2. Properly interlink your page: This is usually a difficult thing for your competitors to understand and work with. When you link to inner pages and a lot of them from your posts, your competitors will be left with little or no chance to compete with your posts because Google gives a lot of respect to internal linking. They can
3. Insert quality optimized images andwater mark your images You need to learn how to do SEO for your blog imagesand apply them to your images, but it doesn't end there. You have to watermark your images, and they won't be able to use it. If they try to use your watermarked images, they will be exposing the source of the post to everyone.
4. Get more backlinks: Ultimately, for you to be able to rank your website's pages, you will need backlinks. Find backlink opportunities and engage in them but make sure they are white hat seo backlinks because Black Hat will not take you far in the industry.
all these will help you to rise quickly in ranking for your main keywords and alsogain website domain authority with which those that copy your website's post will not be able to pass you anymore!
I will be writing more on Increasing domain and page authority, ranking higher for your main keywords and a ton of other things. Ask any questions you have and also share this post if you want to!
Note: The first thing you should do when someone copies your post is to send a message to the webmaster to remove the post. Most times, they won't but other times, they will do just that. I will be considering a situation whereby
- They did not agree to remove the copied post
- You cannot even meet them for that purpose
What can you do on your own to recover your positions for your original posts and start ranking for them too?
Before we can get to that, let's see what happens when someone copies your blog post and paste on his blog.
How someone Can Outrank you by copying your posts
There are some things that happen. It all depends on what and who's Googlebot sees first. Googlebot is very fast, but it only develops fast legs when it comes to websites that are few months old and are regularly updated. This goes to say that if your site is new and less than a month old, maybe three months, then Googlebot will not be visiting your content easily and fast.
When someone copies your post and google sees the person's post first, that's when they can truly outrank you on the long run. Else, you will still be able to surpass them before long. Also, the person who's copying your post needs to have a higher domain and page authority than you to beat you successfully for your original content. If the person is much younger than you and you happen to have higher power, it's a waste of time on the individual's part because you will still rank higher than the copier.
I have mentioned on the long run sometimes here. What do I mean by that? It's simple. Google is not stupid. Yes, you heard me right. Google keeps a proper record of all that's going on in its index. Someone can only outrank your new domain for your keywords only for a while but not forever. With time, as your domain authority builds up and starts matching up with that of those copying from you, Google will also be it's mathematics of ranking. When your domain authority eventually grows, and you are on the same level ground ad those that are copying from you, employ then it's time for Googemployother metrics apart from timing. Eventually, Google will start comparing both the original[yours] and the fake page[the copier's page] with TIME OF CREATION.And that's when you will regain your ranks back!
Google will eventually notice that your page appeared first before that of your competitor and will grant you your rightful place on the search engine for the keyword you are trying to rank for!
Bow, ou have seen how rankings change over time on Google search engine. It's time to look at new things and knows how exactly you are going to increase your domain authority fast and give those copiers their rightful place in the search results page!
In cases where your website domain age is young, and your pages are not yet being indexed automatically by googlebot, the best you can do is to tell Google about the post yourself. You can use the Google's Fetch as Google tool in the webmasters' console area to inform Google about your new posts, and it's that simple. But it doesn't end there. If your blog is new with a weakdomain authority, You will have to do more than before you can start outranking those that are copying your posts.
There are some things one can do. It all starts with making your site more reputable and giving it some value. It's always the case with SEO but this time around, you are trying to rank for your very own creations when others are trying to copy from you and bring you down, so it's a little bit more than just regular SEO.
How to Out-Rank those Copying your Post on Search Engines
1. First, get your post Indexed as explained above.
2. Properly interlink your page: This is usually a difficult thing for your competitors to understand and work with. When you link to inner pages and a lot of them from your posts, your competitors will be left with little or no chance to compete with your posts because Google gives a lot of respect to internal linking. They can
- Try to link to you - in which case it's a plus for you. You can get backlinks through their posts making your site way stronger.
- Or they just copy and paste the posts without any linking - their post will have less optimization than yours, and they will be left to look for other ways to rank their pages.
- Or look for pages on their site to link to - then they are also doing some work and not just copying. By linking to themselves from inside the post they copied, they will be modifying it and depending on the extent to which they do this, Google may finally not scrap you away from the results for your keywords instead, the worst that could happen is for Google to rank you guys together!
3. Insert quality optimized images andwater mark your images You need to learn how to do SEO for your blog imagesand apply them to your images, but it doesn't end there. You have to watermark your images, and they won't be able to use it. If they try to use your watermarked images, they will be exposing the source of the post to everyone.
4. Get more backlinks: Ultimately, for you to be able to rank your website's pages, you will need backlinks. Find backlink opportunities and engage in them but make sure they are white hat seo backlinks because Black Hat will not take you far in the industry.
Don't rush with your backlinks to keep them natural and always check to make- sure that those linking to you are doing so in the right manner.
- Make sure you don't have broken links, links from poor pages, etc.
all these will help you to rise quickly in ranking for your main keywords and alsogain website domain authority with which those that copy your website's post will not be able to pass you anymore!
I will be writing more on Increasing domain and page authority, ranking higher for your main keywords and a ton of other things. Ask any questions you have and also share this post if you want to!