Someone posted about a 500 word comment on one of my hubs, which is usually great, only this comment was pretty much just copied from the safety page of a natural health website. I'm thinking I should delete the comment because it's just duplicate content? It's really good info but I think in the long run I'd be penalized in the Serps?
If the information is good and applicable, would it be a good idea to provide a link to the original content? That is, delete the comment, but provide a link either within your Hub, in a link capsule or in a comment of your own, to the content that was copied. Not sure whether this is a good idea or not, but maybe something to consider?
Because I am a crafty fool I would copy the comment, then re-word the comment and then using one of my other hubpage accounts post the comment, so that it's a different comment altogether but re-worded.....either that or use it as a basis for a new hubpage, these comment spammers have to be useful for something right?
I was thinking exactly the same thing waynet.
Waynet... you mind works overtime doesn't it...
I love the idea of making a hub taking ideas from the comment and linking the two together.
Thanks may use it later if I have to!
by Kate Swanson 11 years ago
I notice that on the "copied Hubs" page, there's a column for "removed". I've never seen any Hub with an entry in that "removed" column and there seems to be no way to mark a copy as "removed". Is there meant to be?It would be an awesome...
by Paul Edmondson 10 years ago
We've heard several concerns about Hubs getting copied and losing traffic and we know how frustrating this is for the author. Google tries to identify the original content creator and show that in the search results. If you have a copied Hub that is getting outranked in the search...
by Pamela N Red 11 years ago
Someone here at HubPages has copied one of my articles. It was actually HubPages that added a copyright symbol letting me know. I flagged and notified HubPages of this but the story is still up. Why would I have to file a DMCA report when it's in house and HubPages knows about this violation? The...
by CMHypno 13 years ago
I flagged two new hubs that I saw in my feed this morning for copied content, and each of them had been published in at least four other locations?Surely, there is a better automatic filter that HP could use to help stop such blatant spamming of the internet - it's not even as if these article were...
by Audrey Selig 13 years ago
There is so much of this going on that it may not be worthwhile to mention. Since I know that this site is not cooperative, I sent my DMCA complaint to Google. My hub is copied word for word with all the lovely photographs and even a link to another similar hub. It probably is my best hub with lots...
by Larry Gonzaga 12 years ago
I made a mistake of posting this on the Questions portion of the feed and don't know how to delete it. Sorry. So this is a duplicate.Here's my problem.I was in the process for moving my hubs elsewhere and while checking if they were still listed in google I came up to with results to...
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