Early 2011 brought a rather large change to the way Google ranks webpages. An updated algorithm was introduced that targeted content scraping sites. However, this has triggered a lot of confusion in the world of internet advertising, leading many companies to question whether rewriting articles, allowing other sites to post their original articles, or posting one article to multiple sites will leave their own business websites out of the Google Pagerank loop.
Thankfully, some clarification came about recently, and we now know that Google is only targeting content scraping sites. What does this mean for your company and your websites? Let's take a look.