A typical issue for a new or not yet so popular content site is having their content scraped by a site that may look more authoritative than their site. When that happens, it is possible that Google will rank the your content on a site that is not yours – yes, the stolen content site.

Google has a scraper algorithm but that can work to hurt original content owners in the situation above. So what can you do?

A WebmasterWorld thread is having conversation just on that topic. They are discussing using services to help Google spot the content on your site before they spot it on a scraper site. Some of those techniques include:

Pinging Google through services like SubPubHubbub
Posting the content on social networking sites like Google+, Twitter and Facebook
Making the page live without the content and then once the search engine crawls it, launch the content on the page hoping the spiders come back sooner.
Use the Fetch as GoogleBot feature in Webmaster Tools
Try Google Blog Search’s pinging service.

Share your ideas to this common issue.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.