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I own and run a .NET blog. Lately I have noticed a disturbing activity.

When I write and publich an article I do not get top ranking for searches for that article but another site called superdotnet.blogspot.com gets the top spot.

for example this search here
shows my article on superdotnet.blogspot.com displays a preview from my article and a link to my blog. My article is nowhere to be seen in the search results.

Is this what is called scrapping. How can i stop this from happening.

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This is a common SEO frustration: an aggregator or scraper can appear to search engines as the better/earlier source and push the original down. is right that some scrapers act like free publicity, but when the original article vanishes from results the goal is to reassert authorship and speed up indexing. , the approach is both technical and procedural.

Do this first (quick wins):

  • Signal the canonical/original URL in your page head so crawlers know which copy is authoritative:

    <link rel="canonical" href="https://your-site.example.com/your-post-url" />

  • Add Article structured data (JSON-LD) with datePublished and author. This gives Google clear provenance:

    <script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Article",
  "mainEntityOfPage": "https://your-site.example.com/your-post-url",
  "headline": "Your Post Title",
  "datePublished": "2007-08-27T18:19:00Z",
  "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Your Name" }
}
</script>

  • Push the URL into Google Search Console (URL inspection -> Request indexing) and ensure your sitemap is up to date (Google Search Central).

Preventive and follow-up steps:

  • Make RSS/feeds summary-only so scrapers cannot grab full text automatically.
  • Monitor duplicates (site: searches or Google Alerts for a unique sentence).
  • Use light anti-scraping controls (rate-limits, block repeat offender IPs), but avoid blunt measures that also block search engines.
  • If you must avoid cached snippets, meta name="robots" content="noarchive" can stop Google showing a cache — use cautiously.

If the scraper keeps outranking you, contact the site owner/host or submit a DMCA request (details at the US Copyright Office: https://www.copyright.gov/dmca/). Long term, publish early, build backlinks and social signals, and keep technical signals (canonical, structured data, sitemap) consistent so search engines pick your copy as original.

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Think of it as free publicity, without it your entry would not appear at all in the Google results by the looks of it. At least they are not ripping off your content and republishing it wholesale without any mantion of the original source. They are recommending your entry to others, publishing a short excerpt by way of preview with a link to the original in full.

Far from stealing traffic, I would be more inclined to think of this as an opportunity to drive traffic to you.

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Thanks for the prompt reply.
In the meantime i have been thinking of setting up scraper sites myself. They seem to be an easy money making scheme.

And in your own words i would be doing webmasters a favour.

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