A page on one of my sites has dropped down and down the search engine results and I couldn’t see why. The results replacing it seemed okay (bar one blatent traffic equalizer page) so I can’t really complain because people on Google are getting the answers to their search.
Then, for some reason I plugged the URL into CopyScape only to find that someone had copy and pasted my page into Yahoo bloody answers as if they’re clever and answering someone’s question. This is a level six user there! Well, once I’ve worked out my rights I’ll deal with Yahoo. But this appeared in Yahoo answers right about the time this page took a dive in the SERPs - coincidence, maybe - but damn annoying that someone can copy your hard work off as their own. To my detriment.
I bet Yahoo and Google answers and other similar sites are rife with other people’s work passed off as their own and I bet they don’t actually care.
Oh yeah, this Yahoo page with my work on does appear higher in the search engine that my own page - and I can almost understand why, it’s answering the question in lots of ways so does benefit the end user. But that’s no excuse to rip off others!
The page was set up to answer the question:
Why do dogs eat grass?
Well, for now I’ve rewritten the offending page (oh and corrected the spelling and grammar that Yahoo have been lumbered with 
) so I’ll see how it goes.
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This entry was posted by Chris Andrews on Thursday, August 17th, 2006, at 2:17 pm, and was filed in Technical.
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