If you run a blog, you might have noticed several "shadow blogs" which scrape your content, omit your name in the credits, but display big ads instead. In a Google-world, where traffic (and revenue) is often dependent on your content"s position in search results, this can harm you most if those shadow blogs actually appear above you in the SERPs. If you have a stronger PageRank, this might act as defense, and Google now handed out some more details on this in a blog post discussing duplicate content:
At the summit at SMX Advanced, we asked what duplicate content issues were most worrisome. Those in the ...
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Google Blogoscoped>>Publish Date: 6/14/2007 8:02:14 AM
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