I recently found a competitor is ripping off my product descriptions (word for word) and they are ranking better them me for those products. Can you report something like this to Google? Apparently I got hit with the "duplicate content" penalty and it's MY content.
http://www.google.com/dmca.html is about the only route you could possibly take for something like that. however, you could also try writing to the site that stole your descriptions and pictures. get a generic C&D drafted up and it may be enough to scare them off. good luck !
I sent an email to them and the descriptions were pulled off within 10 minutes. I still think they are bastards though ...haha
I didn't do much research, but since my site is bigger, better and my content is (or *was*) original, they shouldn't be ranking above me for product searches.
But you haven't lost indexed pages or anything? That site just ranks above you? I don't think there's been any "penalty" imposed.
I love those "Sexy Womens Costumes" your selling, who are the models? Did the wholesaler provide? or do you have a secret studio with just as stunning ladies as yourself
Well, I guess good old fashioned karma did the trick...the website that was stealing my content has been down all day
I bet you were penalized. But that the other guy may had used your content but a better keyword or marketing startegy thats why he outrank you.
If the pages in Google only have the URL and no header and description, then it's possible that this is due to duplicate content - there are other reasons why the page isnt indexed properly, but from my experience, it's nearly always due to duplicate content.