Would this be duplicate content?

I noticed today in my site logs a site that has sent a small handful of hits to my blog. The site appears to be another one where you can rate different sites and pages. My concern is that they display the entire source page.

Here's an example: http://sitehoppin.com/Www.blogaboutcrafts.com/index.php2CHUNJAE2/archives/8-Writing-About-Me-Webpages.html

As far as I know I did not submit to them and am wondering the implications for both duplicate content penalties along with what appear to be my original Adsense ads being displayed. I have my Adsense to show up only on my sites, DP, and here.

What do you folks think?

They are displaying your site in an IFRAME
which means that the top bar is their PROPERTY
the main content (iframe) is your PROPERTY
and as far as I am concerned its as good as someone being at your site
with the only disadvantage being that if they bookmark it
they are actually bookmarking this guy'ss site (NOT YOURS)

as far as duplicate content
the content in an iframe can easily be recognized by the Search Engines
as being part of someone else's site (YOURS IN THIS CASE)

I would not worry a bit, about anything
you are not linking to them, are you ?

Nope, I'm not linking in. I had wondered about the iframe. I saw that, but did not know how search engines evaluate it.

Thanks for the clarification.

I do think it skates the edges of copyright infringement. Anyone else see it that way?

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I have been displayed in this site before too. It is like a voting system for web sites and it can send some traffic to your side too.

You should not worry for duplicate content for the reasons George said, plus even if it was a copy paste job you would be the first that published that content anyway

Now regarding copyrights, you are right. They should have permissions to do that, and in case you don't want your site there you can ask them to remove you.

If you are concerned with being penalised on the Google index then I would not worry too much.

Recently I have been spending a lot of time looking into Google's stance on duplicate content.  It seems that Google are very aware of the growing problem regarding content that has been scraped via bot, or RSS parsing scripts.

You can take a look on youtube at some of the tech talks that Google kindly provide for the webmaster community, but I think that the Google webmaster blog best sums it up

Don't worry be happy: Don't fret too much about sites that scrape (misappropriate and republish) your content. Though annoying, it's highly unlikely that such sites can negatively impact your site's presence in Google. If you do spot a case that's particularly frustrating, you are welcome to file a DMCA request to claim ownership of the content and have us deal with the rogue site.

You can find the full post http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/12/deftly-dealing-with-duplicate-content.htm


Other search engines will of course deal with things differently, but we all know that every search engine is looking at how Google are solving problems very carefully, so you can bet they follow a similar policy.

I would also advise that you spend a comfortable hour with the search engine of your choice, where you can find some excellent anti bot .htaccess rules which will help prevent some of the auto leeching of your content.

As an end note I would say that if you  provide quality, unique and absorbing content for your readers then you will succeed.

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