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Scraped content is a situation when the same or very similar content from your website is republished on other websites on the Internet without your permission and with intent to spam search engines with duplicate content.

There are couple of things that you can do to fight with scraped content from your website or duplicated content issues:

1. Copyscape - “The free Copyscape service makes it easy to find copies of your content on the Web. Simply type in the address of your web page, and Copyscape does the rest. Copyscape finds sites that have copied your content without permission, as well as those that have quoted you.”
   This is a great tool to check who is using your content on their websites and see possible duplicate content issues.
2. spamreport@google.com - email Google if you suspect a scraped or spam content on another website.
3. Similar page Checker tool - “ This tool allows you to determine the percentage of similarity between two pages.”
   You should keep that percentage as low as possible. As each search engine use their own algorithms to catch duplicate content there is no one value that will define a duplicated content or not. Thats why its so important to keep your own judgment and making sure that you write valuable and unique content on your website.
4. related:domainname.com - use this search function in Google to see related websites that may be also using your content without your permission.
5. Remove URL Google tool - if you have a duplicate content within your own website by various URL addresses pointing to the same content use the tool to remove those duplicated pages from Google indexes. You may also 301 redirect all duplicated content to one version of each page or delete duplicated pages from your server.
6. Get familiar with Digital Millennium Copyright Act - you may claim your ownership over content and let Google deal with the rogue site.

Make sure that you do not use other peoples content without their permission. If you quote someone always put the source. If you use other websites content link to them as a source. ALWAYS!