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Discussion on: Our Website Source Is Now Private, A Cautionary Tale

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Vincent A. Cicirello

The clone of your site will probably be flagged by Google as duplicate content and excluded from search results since your original content was probably already indexed. If you had canonical urls in the source they copied with full absolute paths and if the cloner didn't change them in their copy, then Google will get that as an additional cue that yours is the authoritative. So you probably won't be penalized by search engines.