Goggle wants me to pay $100,000 attorney fees when asked to defend me

I used to see my articles on the first 3-4 pages of Google search pages
when typed related key words, now it is extremely deteriorated not to
show my last article even after typing its title between quotes.

After I read a good article for Sophie White in SiteProNews newsletter
and searching her topic"Defending your Site from the Google Duplicate
Proxy Exploit" on the internet, I decided to search the situation.

Typing my article titles between quotes like that:
"45 Foods for Arthritis and Back Pain Relief",
"These foods Cure Hemorrhoids",
"Acid reflux and Your Life Style",
"18 Healthy Foods for Weight Loss",
"Honey and Other Foods for Abscesses and Boils"
"Soybeans Derivatives or Liposuction for Beauty"

All revealed the following results:
1- My articles on social bookmarking sites are shown first
2- Always my blog comes after 2 sites that do not contain my articles
and do not relate to the key words. kappazone.com is a dairy about
different unrelated topics including porn, and guntotingliberal.com is
a political site.

Typing other article titles reveal my articles on Netscape under the
name of another "auther" called sussane sending an abstract of these
articles on her blog "healthtreatments.blogspot.com".My blog does not
show when she is in the results.

I complained to Blogger support which immediately replied that I may
file a notice of fringements, advising me to contact an attorney to
guard against failure to prove that the material online infringes my
copyright, and giving me an example of a company that agreed to pay
over $100,000 for the costs and the attorney fees.

I wrote to blogger support again telling tham that my complaint is that
my URL is abused to lead surfers typing its related key words to other
websites, and I read that it is a hacking technique over the internet.
They did not respond yet.

Any ideas? please be patient to solve my great problem which can not be
resolved by quiting the blog, because they would make it again.
Thanks in advance.

 

Hi,

The $100,000 thing is google asking you, is your content/copyright worth protecting. i.e. if you do go to court will you reclaim that $100,000 if thoes people are shut down?

Google is being "diplomatic" about this, but really what you want to target is matt cutts, and tell him people are spamming google with your articles. Hes a half decent bloke and he might give you a hand.

Unless the websites are properties of Google, ie blogger or googlepages or whatever. Google cannot shut thoes sites down, unless you wish to engage in a long and expensive court case.

I feel for you, I do. There is nothing worse than somebody copying your content. Its flattering that they think its so good they want to copy it.

What you could do is, play dirty and charge a subscription fee, and use cloaking on your site so google can see the content but people cannot.

A bit like what webmasterworld and expertsexchange do. Though they are big site and can do it without suffering any penalities from google.

The other thing you could do, is try link building. This would help you rank higher in google. Or keep on plodding along writing articles.

Its unfair, but this is the way the world is going.

Pierce

 

Whatever phrase you have typed above, this post might outrank your websites in a few days.

 

haha ... but also very disturbing.

 

Lot of people wanna take shortcut like that. At my work, once we found some sites using domain masking on some of their links to get higher ranks on some keywords. We ended up recoding parts of our stopping any kind of masking.

In your case if Google ask you money, that wouldn't be right.

 

$100,000 is way out there. Its like saying that there is nothing that you can do.

In my opinion if they copied a few pages or articles I wouldn't way about it. That's what happens when you post to the web.

Try emailing the sites that have copied your article and tell them that it is required to link back. At least you get some link juice.

 

I am sorry to say that, but it doesn't really make any sense why Google would say that. They may ask you go to court or something, not for money. Are you sure thats what they said???

 

They are trying to tell you that it will be costly to defend your copyright

 

that sucks.

 

Yeah. It will be cheaper to write new articles.

 

haha that happens to me all the time!

 

That's is too much to pay!!!
$100,000 Wow

 

I said that they asked me to consult an attorney first and the succeding steps may cost $ 100,000, giving me an example.

 

The problem is that howevever the site is improved will not change the fact that its traffic is redirected to the offensive sites.

 

They wanted you scare you but that is not fair.
Google is becoming the next microsoft.
Like Mikhail Bakunin said :
“If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.”

 

social bookmark sites have more backlinks and they have a big seo power.

this is so normal

 

I think Google needs to start filtering article results based on the date the content was published, and just show the original source and get rid of the rest.

I agree that if you flag your case up to Matt Cutts he might look into it and use it as an example in his forum, which would also drive a lot of traffic to your blog.

 

Your proposals are extremely constructive, all! but when I visited his blog (forum?) I found a lot of posts and he calls for organized comments, i.e. a comment should be related to the post. I did not know how to start, any clues?
Thanks alot.

 

To be honest, getting that content removed is a waste of your time and effort - if you worked on the authority of your domain (related backlinks, links from authoritative sites, etc) you'd be up there in the SERPs because Google would trust *your* site rather than the ones scrapping you. Where is your site? Is it a new domain, has it been online long? All these factors will affect it.

 

This is how syndication works in Google.

Now you may not have wanted to syndicate your work (it was just taken) but duplicate content exists all over the web, and the results get ordered primarily on trustrank which seems to be what happened to you.