How I can report duplicate content to Google?

Discussion in 'Google' started by arin2u, Nov 19, 2007.

  1. #1
    Is there any way to report duplicate content to Google? Some of the websites are putting exact content as mine on their pages without giving me any credit.
    I've mailed them to remove it. They assured me for removal. But still I see the content live on their pages. Can I take any legal action?
     
    arin2u, Nov 19, 2007 IP
  2. kentuckyslone

    kentuckyslone Notable Member

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    Find out who their host is and contact them. If they are in fact stealing your content their host should suspend their account.

    As for Google they will already be able to see that it is duplicate content so there is no need to report to them.
     
    kentuckyslone, Nov 19, 2007 IP
  3. arin2u

    arin2u Peon

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    thanks for your reply. I'm not clear how google will treat that page? Do google has any legal section for reporting?
     
    arin2u, Nov 19, 2007 IP
  4. kentuckyslone

    kentuckyslone Notable Member

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    Not that I am aware of, I dont think that it exists.

    If you have contacted the webmaster and they have not removed the content I strongly recommend that you contact their host. You can find out who it is by going to their whois info available at http://www.whois.net/

    Many people here, including myself, have been succesful in getting a hosting account suspended because of copyright violation/content theft.
     
    kentuckyslone, Nov 20, 2007 IP
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    Slincon Well-Known Member

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    Google is not a parent over websites, so they really can't do anything. Unless they host the site that's copying your content, they won't and can't do anything. Contact the owner of the site first, make them aware of it, contact the admin, the owner or whatever directly, if they don't answer or don't comply with you - then contact their host. If that doesn't work, contact the provider of bandwidth for the host (last resort) - assuming its serious infringement - they will cut bandwidth to the host if the host ignores you.
     
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    ryukenden Well-Known Member

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    Yes, contact their hosting company asap to take action against them.
     
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    freediver Peon

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    You can report spam using google which is the best you can do with google. SInce that is not technically spam I do not know would it work.

    Contacting the other site directly and mentioning a word lawyer several times might do the trick.
     
    freediver, Nov 20, 2007 IP
  8. Trisha

    Trisha Active Member

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    Were you able to get the content removed? I have exactly the same problem. Someone has stolen material that is very personal to me and has pretended that it is their own material. They've posted it on a blog owned by Lycos but in spite of reporting the problem nothing has been done about it. The person is even pretending to be me. I don't know what to do next.
     
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    MOG Well-Known Member

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    Hi trish (and other thread posters)

    theres a remove page tool in googles webmaster tools.... you are meant to be the site owner OR have contacted the site owner to remove the page already.... I have had a few pages taken out but it took a month or two.
     
    MOG, Nov 21, 2007 IP
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    I have a big problem with a lot of the content I write, which is mostly technical, being completely plagiarized by Indian university students and posting it on their university sites as part of a project they were assigned.

    Sometimes you can get the host to take it down, and sometimes you just have to move on...
     
    confusion, Nov 21, 2007 IP
  11. arin2u

    arin2u Peon

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    Thanks for all your suggestions. They did a crap and not responding. I contacted both but all the efforts gone in vain. Then what I did was I changed the content of my page completely. I hope it work out well for me :) as I moved 2 step forward to no7 in google ranking with a keyword. Now I need to check if my visitors are satisfied with the info.

    But it is really a serious issue if google considers duplicate contents bad. How many times we change those?
     
    arin2u, Nov 23, 2007 IP
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    you can use report spam tool on your google webmaster tools
     
    trichnosis, Nov 23, 2007 IP
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    mansijoshi, Nov 23, 2007 IP