Cached copyright material

Best way to remove?

[sugarkane]

I discovered another site that had lifted around 70 pages of copyrighted material from my site. A quick email to their hosts resulted in the site being shut down, but the pages are still ranking well and in Google's cache.

I obviously want them removed so as not to confuse our customers, but cant work out the best way to do it... Should I resubmit all the pages or will such a level of submissions be ignored? Is it best to just submit the root and hope googlebot gets around to the site fairly soon? Or would an email to Google have any effect?

Any advice greatfully received.

[roscoepico]

you need to contact the host and have them put up a file named forgoogl.html in the directory in which the copywritten material sits. This file doesnt need any content, it just needs to exist. Once the file is in place, send an email to [e-mail] with the urls you want removed. The reason for the forgoogl.html is so when google does in fact visit the page it will look for this file and confirm that you are in fact the owner(or in your case the host is the owner...)

[sugarkane]

Thanks for that... interesting...

However, as the offending site is shut (and the DNS moved away from it) I don't think that'd work in this case.

I guess I'll just have to hope Google is pretty speedy at removing pages when it comes across a 'host not found' error.

[Brett_Tabke]

Write them and let them know they have accessed some data you don't want cached asap. They are fast at removing stuff like that. I had a db of passwords they indexed when a web server failed to reboot with modssi enabled (that blocked access to the directory) and they actually listed the directory and password file. They removed it within 10minutes.