Content scraping is a fairly common practice whereby other websites will copy some text, links or images from your site to use on another domain. If youre writing content for the web, theres a good chance this may have happened to you, but does this practice actually impact your Google ranking?

While many webmasters fear that content scraping may result in duplicate content penalties, the good news is that its unlikely to have any negative impact on your position in search results.

According to Googles Matt Cutts, scraped content could actually have a positive impact, with the scraped site providing a link back to your content. Heres a video below where Matt discusses the topic in more detail:

Matt points out that Google is usually quite good at determining the original source of the content and wont penalize your site if it finds this content elsewhere. If youve had any experience on the issue, post a comment below to let us know how it impacted your site!

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