Spam sites republish a article with 'money keyword' anchor text and causing a pentalty.. how to prevent.

[jpeg80]

About 6 weeks ago we had a DA50 / PA50 homepage site publish an article on our company which included a money keyword anchor text to our site.. Great.

Once this happened we shot up the SERP for this term, but quite a few other spam / crawler sites seem to automatically republish everything this DA50 site publishes. This didnt seem to be a problem up until a couple of weeks ago, but now with the new penguin update it seems we have been slapped with a penalty, for having 20 sites all with the same article and anchor text. (the rest of our profile is pretty natural, so this is the main culprit for the penalty)

Im now going to write to all the webmasters apart from the DA50 site, and ask them to remove the article, failing that ill have to disavow them.

For future reference what is there a way of avoiding this issue of spam sites republishing a propper article and triggering a penalty.

[LoganRay]

A site I manage has all their blog posts scraped and republished on a trash website. We've sent requests to the site a handful of times, and submitted a DMCA takedown request, but nothing has ever been resolved.

Your best bet is to disavow those domains scraping the original content. I'd also recommend more investigation into the sites publishing content and links that point to your site. It seems some sites are more prone to being scraped than others, haven't figured out any rhyme or reason to when it happens yet though. Definitely interested to see if anyone else chimes in with some insights on preventative methods.