google contact to report plagarised content

[fish]

Hi guys,

Does anyone know of the google email/contact addy to report sites that have scraped content and are blatantly using copyrighted material?

am getting pee'd off with seeing my original stuff reproduced on shite mfa crap sites

is there any other resource that you know of which can help diminish this practice/

cheers

Fish

[newguy]

If your content is indexed first then google will most likely already treat their reproduction of it as such. I'm not sure if they'd penalise sites beyond that. Is it always the same people of group of people doing this? I would suggest sending a take down notice, but depening on their attitude and location, they might ignore it.

Maybe this will be of use:

How to Protect Your Site Against Content Thieves ? Perishable Press

[jwm]

Originally Posted by newguy

If your content is indexed first then google will most likely already treat their reproduction of it as such. I'm not sure if they'd penalise sites beyond that. Is it always the same people of group of people doing this? I would suggest sending a take down notice, but depening on their attitude and location, they might ignore it.

Maybe this will be of use:

How to Protect Your Site Against Content Thieves ? Perishable Press

Unfortunately I don't think this is necessarily true. If the copied content is being shown on a site with higher ranked PR their is a real chance google will give this preference over the original source. Esp as date of indexing doesn't always equal date of publication

[newguy]

There are exceptions yes, but typically I think the original source of content usually draws the most eyeballs and inbound links. I agree though, that it's of concern if you do find a small site being ripped off by one with mre authority. In a worse case scenario there, you could feasibly even be penalised for your own original content.

jwm - do you know if google are contactable in relation to this particular issue, or do you think that they instead would just send out a template style reply suggesting that they are always fine tuning their service to better spot those guilty of this.

[Takwa]

Ahhh just used copyscape and someone is copying my stuff! can I call the police?

[DomainAngel]

Hi

you should visit here, and bookmark it, as you may well need it lots of times.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act

You should first have asked the webmaster to take down the pages, but in reality you have no chance.

I would still email them if possible, and just in case they obliged, use this in webmasters tools to delete googles cache. Removing someone else's pages from search results - Webmaster Tools Help

Once your DMCA has been sorted, I would still submit a page removal request to make sure.

Hope that helped.

[Takwa]

I had submitted to Google, but I want to take him off, he's with Moniker and I can't find the button to report spam

[DomainAngel]

Here ya go Takwa

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport

[fish]

Thanks for the links guys, very useful.

[expertc]

Please let us know the results. I’ve been fighting “info thieves” for ages, even copyscape is not much help. This is one of the reasons that I’ve stopped using eZine