Can a website be punished by panda if content scrapers have duplicated content?

[RG_SEO]

I've noticed recently that a number of content scrapers are linking to one of our websites and have the duplicate content on their web pages. Can content scrapers affect the original website's ranking? I'm concerned that having duplicated content, even if hosted by scrapers, could be a bad signal to Google. What are the best ways to prevent this happening?

I'd really appreciate any help as I can't find the answer online!

[Jonathan1979]

If they are linking back to you I wouldn't worry.  This will give a signal to Google that yours is the original.

[iFong]

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[DennisSeymour]

Moz has a million different scraped content and links and it's still ok.

The current Google is kinda good at detecting this but obviously, there will be times that your scraped content will rank better than you.

Try to get the basics in like authorship to at least notify Google earlier about the content. Not much you can do to scraper sites

As for Panda, it shouldn't. You should be ok.

[RG_SEO]

Thanks everyone - those are great responses