My website has been copied

[jcmiras]

In one of my webpage, I post a research about "widget". In all three search engines, it rank 4, just down below the authority sites and some older websites like widget.gov and widget.org which is just ok with me.

Unfortunately, a just knew a website with a domain widget.com that copied exactly the content of my webpage and post it on the home of his website. When I search it on whois, I found out that it was lunch only 3 days ago.

I`m just worried of being outrank of this scrapper and google might charge me of copying other content, although the content is originally mine, because that website url might be overlokked by google as another authority site about "widget".

Do you think I have to worry this?

[Atticus]

Yes, this is potentially a problem. You might want to contact the offending site and suggest removal of your material or you will file a DMCA complaint.

If they do not comply, alert their host and have the content taken down via DMCA.

Or, you could do what I did -- get scraped by thousands of sites, loose almost all Google traffic and then just forget about Google altogether because if they're too dumb to be able to tell an original site already listed with them for years from numerous crappy copies, then what good are they anyway?

So there you have it--some advice for you followed by a rant for me.

Good luck.

[jcmiras]

One of the great revenge that I thought is to report that scrapper to google adsense because after copying my content, he/she put a large adsense ad block beside it. Do you think what he/she did was against Google adsense Terms and Policies? Will it be a good action?

[Atticus]

I believe that I've heard that Google responds slowly or not at all in such situations. Worth a shot though.

I have had some success getting sites (not scrapers) to remove content copied from my sites by 'threatening' to file a DMCA complaint.

[Catnip]

Hmm I just found a website that copied my content and images... Not happy at all! Sent a DMCA email to the site owner and host. If nothing is done what else can I do? The company is not in the US, however the host is.

Catnip
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[Mike12345]

Check out this thread for more info on stopping this kind of thing: [webmasterworld.com...]