Stolen content/sites outranking mine on google

Discussion in 'Legal Issues' started by Blacke30, Jun 10, 2008.

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    I hope these results stay the same for you all to see what I am talking about, its very frustrating.

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=miley+cyrus+criticizes+demi+lovato&btnG=Search

    My site is stupidcelebrities.net At the time of writing this there are 3 results above mine and all of these sites stole my posts from my rss feed. (at the bottom of their posts you can see where my feed footer plugin added my copyright info)

    I have tried emailing the site owners but have not had luck yet, what I really want to know though is how the heck are these junk sites beating my in the results????

    Any help would be wonderful.

    Thanks,
    Jeff
     
    Blacke30, Jun 10, 2008 IP
  2. myolay21

    myolay21 Peon

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    #2
    Maybe their site index before your site. Or maybe they have more backlink and social bookmark...



    The best way to stop from them is make your RSS Feed only show limited amout of content and make them to read more at only your site. You cannot do other sites (the 3 above) since you published your rss feed.

    So, limit the amount of content show in rss feed(partial feeds) insted of showing entire blog.

    Or put more affiliate links in your post and let them send traffic for you. :)

    4 websites with same affiliate link = more sales kekee...
     
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  3. tsukara

    tsukara Banned

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    Site with older domain age is also an advantage. Maybe your site is newer than him.
     
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  4. Blacke30

    Blacke30 Active Member

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    my sites 2 years old, very well established.... those sites are all fairly new and not ranked well.
     
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  5. virgin

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    Check up, how your competition is using Digg and other PR strong social networking/bookmarking sites. If they outperform you on Digg, that is more than enough for them to be higher ranked in Goolgle search. And Digg is only one of many.
     
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    chtdatweb Well-Known Member

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    yeah restrict your feeds to only show the post title instead of content, it may not solve your immediate problem what i will stop any more damage from being done. Furthermore, if they have a copyright notice on the footer of the posts you should be able to serve them with a DCMA notice.
     
    chtdatweb, Jun 17, 2008 IP
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    MTbiker Well-Known Member

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    If you can't get in touch with the site owner, contact the domain registrar and web host, informing them of the copyright infringement (since as the web host, they are a party to the act.) Sometimes they'll suspend the account and inform the user.

    Plus, sometimes these types of scammers are also breaking other terms of the domain registrar and web hosting agreements, such as having invalid whois info. Then it will be even easier for you to make your case. (It's kind of like someone getting a speeding ticket and the cop finds out that the dude is also wanted for theft, murder, etc. Repeat offenders...)
     
    MTbiker, Jun 17, 2008 IP