Stolen website content

[Alexogilvie]

Hello, recently we had a lot of content written for our new website. Unfortunately me and my partner have went separate ways, and he has used all my unique content on his own website. All our product descriptions, about us etc, he simply changed the name of the company.

He has agreed to take the content down, so that i can now put this content on our new website which is currently being designed.

Will google see this as duplicate content as it has been on a website before? Even though the content has been removed from the original website.

I was worried as the content is no longer "fresh" so to speak.

Can any one help me with this,

[William.Lau]

You should be fine. As long as the other site took it down, you will be ok.

[Andy-Halliday]

was the other website crawled by Google, probably not if it was new - in which case I wouldn't worry and even if it was, because the content has been taken down, you will be fine.

One way to check, search google for some of the unique text and see if your partners website is appearing in the SERPs listings.

[Alexogilvie]

yes the website has been crawled... i have done that test and their website is ranking for several things...

[Andy-Halliday]

is the new website completely down, or is it that they have just removed the content.

Either way once Google re-crawls then they wont rank - you could if you have access to the sites webmaster tools ask them to come and crawl.

When is it your site is ready to go live, you may be ok. Worth checking to see rankings when your site is live.

[JaneCopland]

You should be fine if his version of the content has disappeared before yours goes live. It's fairly normal for content to appear in more than once place over the course of time, so you won't fall into a filter or penalty situation with this, as long as his content has been deindexed. Best to check that it is no longer cached before yours goes live, but it should not take long for Google to drop it.