Google updated/using wrong site index

[vetrimedia]

I am the CTO of <snip1> , we provide only unique and quality content.
Businesses/Customers provide information and our staff verify using their own common sense and our unique
algorithm to find the best.

Our website was growing steadily but all of a sudden stopped and going down. After research what we found was,
exactly the same time we started going down, there is website "site:<snip2>" (it is owned and part of the big
company <snip 2>) they just duplicated all our content and google thought their pages are much
better than ours, may be because of authority or what ever. How we know is, google updated that index faster/more
than our original pages :-(. We contacted <Snip 2> and they stopped the pages and killed those DNS that
points to us a month ago. Even after they did, google still updated that index (by checking site:<snip2> and
select last 1 week ). We have 30K pages.

What can we do this? Why is going updated those indexes even though dns is disabled and page gets error?
This is seriously affecting us, even though it is not our mistake and we did not do anything wrong.

I reached to Danny S via twitter and here is his reply
"I'll see about passing it on, but you should also post in the forums."

[edited by: goodroi at 7:11 pm (utc) on May 25, 2018]
[edit reason] Please no specifics as per forum charter [/edit]

[keyplyr]

Hi vetrimedia,

First, determine how the other site is duplicating your content.
• They may be using a bot to scrape your pages.
• They may be scraping manually by just using a browser and cut'n pasting your content to their page.
• They may be framing your page, so that it is really your server putting your content onto their page.

Look at their page source code. Look for tags surrounding your code. Look for <DIV> tags, look for <IFRAME> tags, etc.

Once you determine how they are using your content, there are several actions you can take to block them and fix the problem. Report back what you find :)

Until then, send a Cease and Desist email to them and copy to their upstream provider. Use the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) format found here:

Subject: Cease and Desist - Copyright Infringement (DMCA)


RE: [infringing page URL here]

The above website on your servers has copied and published our property without permission. Permission to use our property was neither solicited nor granted.

The infringing content is taken from: [URL of your page]

Please remove this content and all other property owned by [your domain name] from your server immediately to avoid legal proceedings.

I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above on the allegedly infringing web pages is not authorized by me, any agent representing me, or the law.

I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner.

Signature: /[your name]/
Date: 2018/05/25
Signatory's Name: [your name]
Signatory's Position: owner

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