Hello, I am in a big problem and I don't know how to solve that. I have a weight loss blog. few days back when I search my blog in google some other pages came out on first page and all the content there has been copied, even the site also use my name as author, site design, content each and every single things has been copied. just take a look: my site : http://slimmingtipsblog.com/ site copying my everything : http://hotslimmingtipsblog.com/index.htm when I search on google with some of my keyword this page sometimes come out. Its killing my seo and I want to get rid of this page. please help me how can I complain against this site to google or anything i can do to stop this site. ? I hope someone will answer me. Thank You.
The first thing that you have to do it - is report the problem at Google - for disavow. After you have to wait a bit and give them the proofs that he copied the content from you not vice-versa. I'm sorry for you but you're not the first and not the last that is passing this. After Google is appreciating that your website is the Original - will penalized very bad the copy one and that's it you can continue with your SEO.
Many thanks for your quick reply. Can you please tell me little detail ho to report to Google for disavow ?
https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905?rd=2 I'm sure that this is the correct link - from here you should be able to handle it. Anyway, read these 2 blogs: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.es/2008/06/duplicate-content-due-to-scrapers.html http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.es/2006/12/deftly-dealing-with-duplicate-content.html Are old but are giving you a lot of information regarding what you need to do to escape from the copied content.
Try to contact that copycat via his website contact form or whois details and warn him. If that doesn't work, you can file DMCA takedown. More info here : http://www.dmca.com
Contact the owner and ask for him to remove, name Hartwell Steele, if no joy, inform and go to Google