When people share content from your website onto Clipmarks, you get some extra visitors but that could also hurt the rankings of your website or blog in Google.
That’s because Clipmarks doesn’t link to the original story and Google can assume that Clipmarks is the original owner of the content that is actually written by you.
What you see on the Clipmarks website is actually different from content that is presented to Googlebot. Here’s an example - someone clipped a my article on Gmail Addresses and saved it to Clipmarks here.
Looking at this clip, one may think that Google will have no trouble recognizing the original source since the Clipmarks clip clearly attributes the source and links to the actual story.
And if you are left wondering how Clipmarks still manages to rank in Google when they put everything in an IFRAME, look at the embed box that’s on every Clipmarks page.
Open the same clip in Google Cache and you’ll immediately know the difference. Only the internal links are live, rest everything is in plain text. Clipmarks can therefore be a source of worry especially for blogs that are relatively new and still experiencing the Google Sandbox effect.
If you find your content copied verbatim on Clipmarks, I recommend asking them to take down the clip because this could hurt the rankings of your own page in search engines (read: Duplicate Content).
To get a clip removed, you will need to send a formal DMCA request addressed to copyright@clipmarks.com (Eric Goldstein) - they’ll make the clip private so it remains invisible to search engines and can only be viewed by the person who originally clipped it.
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