Should I re-update Google webmaster disavow when bad neighbor republish my Feeds?
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Hi all!
I have a self hosted, WordPress blog. Today I accidentally found a one bad site republish my blog feeds in its sidebar. This blog has cracked software download links, software serial numbers information as well as few legal contents. I think it's is a bad neighbor. And it will cause future SEO issues.
That blog hosted on Google blogspot. Then try to contact the site admin to remove my feeds from the sidebar. But I can't find any contact information. This site doesn't have any social networking profiles/pages.
How do I block that site re-publishing my feeds? It uses a blogspot.com sub domain, therefore I can't find any who is information.
If I use Google webmaster disavow link feature, what happen when I publish new blog posts? Then I have to re-update the webmaster tools disavow links?
Thanks!
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Just want to agree with both @Karl and @Glen - you can disavow the domain, but I'd also reach out directly to Blogpost, as they're your best bet for a takedown. Past that, you could file a DMCA request. Honestly, though, if you're just talking about one obviously bad site on Blogspot, your risk is pretty low here. There are bad sites out there, and Google knows it. Until you've got a pattern of bad links, they're not going to penalize you for something you can't control (the vast majority of the time, at least).
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Look up the content policy for blogspot/blogger. They should have instructions to file a copyright infringement request. If the site continually violates Google's policies then it could get pulled down altogether.
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Karl!
First of all thank you for your reply. I think it's better disavow the domain. Are there any side effect of this disavowal? That person uses the blogger sub domain (for an instance abc.blogspot.com). Therefore I can't get contact information from the Whois.
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Have you tried using Whois to find the contact details?
If you disavow the domain rather than an individual page in the disavow tool, you shouldn't have to update the file every time they take one of your feeds. I don't think there is anything you can do to stop them taking it though unfortunately.
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