Can Copied Pages Remove a Site from Google?

Really this easy to Fool Google?

[webovative]

I recently had one of my largest and most active sites fall off of google completely, its absolutely gone, not even a smoking crater remains, google does not even show any backlinks to the domain. This is a large, very active, interactive site with thousands of members and was getting around 20k google hits a day.

I started digging around and found a seo spammer with hundreds of thousands of cloaked pages indexed on google. This domain alone <snip> has a ton and this guy has 20+ domains that I have been able to track down in a matter of minutes.

Results 1 - 10 of about 75,900 for "<snip>".

Several thousands of these spam pages have my domain name in them, not an actual link, just the domain name and page content from hundreds of my pages.

Could this alone cause my hi-quality site to fall completely out of the google index?

[edited by: volatilegx at 8:25 pm (utc) on June 29, 2005]
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[volatilegx]

Welcom to WebmasterWorld, webovative. :)

It's too bad your first post is about something so awful. I note that cloaking is only peripherally involved. This could happen with an uncloaked site as easily as with a cloaked site.

It sounds like a DMCA complaint is in order. I believe you could get their sites dropped from the Google index easily via DMCA complaint, and after their site was dropped, yours should come back in.