They always say that you need to exchange links with other related websites to your topic. What if one of these sites is Google itself !?

Would you take the risk and email Google asking them to exchange links with your website?

I'm trying to get this blog at the top since its my main blog where I post all my articles and thoughts. My targeted keywords are Webmaster Blog and I'm already ranking at the top for these keywords. The problem is I always like to be number one and I always manage to get there, but what if the number one is the Google blog itself !!

I wrote an article few days ago and an automated blog copied the article the minute I posted it here. 12 hours later, I searched Google for "How to upload files to your virtual private server" and I was surprised to find that the automated blog, is already ranking number one in the results. It was my article and its my blog that should be ranking there !

I'm used to having my articles copied without permission but seeing Google ranking a useless automated blog, instead of ranking my blog. That did heart a lot and I was really upset about it all day.

Today I was hunting down all the automated blogs that would copy my articles/content without permission. I either reported the blog to its hosting/domain provider, or contacted the owner of the blog which is very rare, since these blogs are automated and have no contact page/email.

Anyway, one of these blogs is a free blog from blogger.com, so I went on and reported it.