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    • mtking.us_gmail.com
      mtking.us_gmail.com last edited by

      I had a communication problem with my writer and she used original unspun content and posted it to Unique Article Wizard.  So all UAW does is take each paragraph and mix them up.  So I searched a sentence on my site where the content came from and got back a bunch of returns for that sentence.  My site wasn't the first result returned.  I"m wondering how bad that is going to be for me.  The links from UAW are going back to an anchor layer that then links back to this site.

      Can anyone tell me if I need to rewrite the content on the original site?  That is the only way I can think to make that not an issue.

      Thanks

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      • David_ODonnell
        David_ODonnell last edited by

        Yes, that content is probably plastered over hundreds of crappy sites.

        Step one would be to re-write the content on your site.

        However, you'll still have the problem of having all those low quality UAW links.

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        • EGOL
          EGOL last edited by

          Can anyone tell me if I need to rewrite the content on the original site?  That is the only way I can think to make that not an issue.

          I would do more than rewrite.  I would rewrite and make the new content ten times better.

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          • mtking.us_gmail.com
            mtking.us_gmail.com last edited by

            Thanks to both of you for answering.  I was thinking that would give an opportunity to write the pages better, but they were carefully written originally by myself.  Also, the content doesn't link directly to my site, but there are free blog sites that are linked via UAW crappy links.

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