How Google Authorship Can Make a Difference
Yesterday’s post and video about keyword research hadn’t been indexed as of this morning which was a little odd. So I went and did a search on the title. The two sites that were ranking for the title had ripped my content and given me no attribution. The guys name is Scott Davis, I’ll put a photo of the details at the end of this post. Apparently he is a Utah based SEO guy and he has a couple of sites that continually rip my content. Today Google had indexed him first. However he hadn’t setup authorship on his domains. If he had performed this simple exercise maybe what you about to watch would have been harder.
Naturally like most people I get a little annoyed when someone blatantly steals your work so I set out to test Google’s claim that Authorship would cut down on plagiarism by correctly attributing content to the source author. What happens when the plagiarist gets indexed way ahead of you? Sure his publish date would be later but that is easy to fake. What you see in this video may surprise you. It did me. Btw Scott is on Google+ and below the video you will find his details associated with one of the domains that stole my post.
UPDATE: Scott has contacted me via google+ and explained he was only republishing my posts because he was a fan. I responded by saying with attribution that would have been cool, but not without it. So I have removed the image referred to above but the video is still a great example of how authorship can help. I wonder what would have happened had Scott used authorship?
Jim’s been here for a while, you know who he is.
