05-28-2006, 04:32 PM
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 Site Scraping - How to Act
A great post on Webmasters World on how to deal with rogue webmasters and their sites they use to steal your content. Quote:
Got you covered dude, we just went through this and emerged victorious numerous times. I had 40 sites removed from Google's index last week.
First, forget submitting to Google’s “report spam” link, it’s a joke, they have not acted to any of about 100 submissions we made the last 2 years. So we adapted our strategy. There is a way to make Google act, that we used successfully.
Instead, you should fax Google a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) Notice, using their instructions EXACTLY at
http://www.google.com/dmca.html
Then in about a week or so, they will remove the site from their index. They have removed a number of sites we sent them. It’s easy to prove you are the owner of the content in 3 ways, that we use:
1)Your site is trademarked and/or registered in Library Of Congress
2)Your site domain name is a lot older than the scum wad lose moron scraper site
3)Your site has old screen shots of it in Archive.org Internet way back machine, while the scamming scraper site has no entries at all.
Also, at the same time, send a DMCA to the web host of the scraper site, about 75% of the time, the web host will remove the site. Forget the webmaster they will never respond, and often the email address is a bogus one anyway, or they hide behind Domain By Proxy firms.
Once the scraper site is shut down and PAGE NOT FOUND, you must IMMEDIATELY DO THIS:
Go to Google’s AUTOMATED URGENT DEAD LINK REMOVAL TOOL, which crawls the dead site immediately as soon as you submit it. You must act immediately, before the scammer has a chance to find a new web host a day or 2 later.
The Google tool is here:
http://services.google.com:8882/urlconsole/controller
You’ll need a Google login tool to use it. Once you submit the dead page to this “Urgent Removal Request” tool, they show you online pending, or completed. Takes about 2 days and they email you when the site has been removed.
The beauty of this strategy, is that Google will not allow that URL back in the index after the tool removes it, for 6 months! Even if they re-submit, they are out in the cold for 6 months
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