I again apologize for the delay but my hosting provider is upgrading some of their servers and my blog happens to be on one of them. I was told the upgrade will be over on Sunday afternoon. Thank you for your patience.
Those who say PageRank doesn’t matter, you should think again. Perhaps it doesn’t matter to bloggers who don’t profit from their blogs by selling ad spots but that’s really not their biggest concern, or at least it shouldn’t be. It’s the duplicate content and the content ownership and PageRank matters when you’re trying to rank higher or rank at all. Why you ask? There are over two hundred SEO factors that Google uses to rank websites in the SERPs and one of them is PageRank. But why is this so important? Simply because Google uses PageRank to determine the content owner and you’re getting ranked based on that. That was not a typo, Google truly considers the author of the content a website whos PageRank is higher.
Is this idiotic? Well, does a cat have climbing gear enabled?
Let me rephrase that. Don’t bother getting indexed first because if someone who has a blog with higher PR than you puts your content on his blog, yours will be considered duplicate. The document with the highest authority counts. This is stupid, idiotic and dumb but it’s just the way Google operates. You don’t believe me? A guy on DigitalPoint offered his services of re-indexing banned domains and this is where it all started. Another member joined the debate and challenged him of outranking his document.
As i said, where it was found first has nothing to do with anything and Google doesnt even factor it. The document with the most authority is what counts. Its not what i “think” its how it works, and if you want me to prove it again no probs. Get an original document indexed and cached on your domain, then ill put the same thing up and link it from my PR7 homepage and yours will be gone in about 48 hours.
So what happened? They both agreed to put the same document on their servers with few keywords to rank for and the guy who believed this was a myth had to index it first. The challenger waited for his document to get indexed by Google and then put the same document on a non-related PR7 website and 48h after that, the other guy’s page could not be found anywhere. It’s just amazing. Despite the fact that he indexed it first, what supposed to make him the author, he was outranked and his page was flagged as duplicate content.
You can read how it all started here and continued in the new thread. Let’s just hope Google will fix this with their new algorithm.
Duplicate Content Issue - Do You Really Own Your Content?…
Those who say PageRank doesn’t matter, you should think again. Perhaps it doesn’t matter to bloggers who don’t profit from their blogs by selling ad spots but that’s really not their biggest concern, or at least it shouldn’t be. It’s the du…
Interesting stuff… while it is most certainly true that the ‘authority’ site will always rule the day in such cases, there is more to ‘authority’ than simple ToolBar PageRank.
Just like ranking documents is based on more than PR, authority is as well. It is not as simple as assigning to whomever published it first unfortunately.
One should never distribute content that they intend to use on their own site or as a target page for an SEO campaign.
A good post though, I don’t see enough folks discussing it in tutorial type posts.
Nice one - :0)
google is a god, and god’s ways are not necessarily fathomable by simple mortals like us 
October 5, 2007
First we get to know about proxy hacking and now authority hacking, are there any more holes in Google? I hope it gets fixed with the new hardly expected algorithm.
I think there are other factors as well. Content was syndicated and reprinted by a site with a much higher PR ranking than the content owner, and the original source always lists right below the higher ranking site with the duplicate content.
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