: Why are other sites ranking for our content? I co-run a job board, and part of our service is to post jobs that people post with us on multiple boards. The content originates with us, and

@Jessie594

Its just because of domain authority.

Your website seems to have less authority and trust in eyes of Google as compare to rest of the websites. When google find relevant content it ranks website as per the number of links that domain / URL has. Those links define the authority of website and trust of Google in a website.

All you have to do it to give links to your website. Raise the authority of the website an a time will come when you will se your post ranking higher in search results.

However to get quick results here is the tip

Give some links to particular job post page
And use all keywords but make content unique

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@Megan663

link rel="publisher" is not for telling search engines you are the original source of syndicated content. It's just to link up your companies Google + page in the search results, so you can see an image and brand name.

The correct way to tell search engines you are the original source of syndicated is using a cross domain canonical tag. This where a canonical tag is set on pages on these other domains referencing the original page. However this is rather difficutl to set up, as of course you don't control these other domains.

Google is normally quite Good at figuring out who is the original source of content, but with syndicated content if often gets it wrong. One of the problems I see here is some of the websites with the content are very well known, authoritative type sites, such as careerjet.com.au.

The only real solution in these situations is simply to have two sets of content. One set you syndicate out, then a 2nd set which you publish on your website. This way you have original, unique content on your site and you aren't leaving any thing up to chance.

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