Pagerank is Google’s way to determine the importance of a website for a certain set of search terms or keywords. Though the Pagerank is not the only factor which gets you a good ranking for a search result, it is an important factor given all other conditions being the same. So if you have a site with high PR, you could potentially be ranked high in Google search engine results for a certain set of keywords.

If two sites ever published the same article at the same time, the website with the lower PR may even worse not be ranked at all in Google since the first site which have the content indexed is the owner of the content and all subsequent indexing of the same content may be considered as duplicates.

So this could potentially happen if a website with a high PR hosts your original article before your low PR blog get indexed for the effort. The high PR site could simply return a reference to your blog and gets away with it. In this way, all the organic traffic which could be yours in the first place become theirs.

Is there any way we can stop this?

The answer is no as there is no way to manipulate Google search engine results. The site with the higher PR will always be on top of you in terms of search engine result for the same set of keywords.

For those with high PR, you may well make this your advantage and increase your profits through the efforts of other poor souls.

For those with low PR, you can only hope that your article is spidered first before anybody comes along and remove you from the search engine result. And please re-edit the PLR articles before publishing it since duplicate content will penalise your site even more. Lastly, try to practise some search engine optimisation to improve your PR to prevent this from ever happening.

Tags: Pagerank, search engine optimisation, Google