DMCA Complaint to Google
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I have several sites copying the content from my pages. I filed numerous complaints with Google and checked under the DMCA dashboard and it's showing my requests are approved; however, still several days later the infringing pages still remain.
I'm a bit confused by this as I thought Google was supposed to remove the page. I guess I'm not understand why it was "approved" when I don't see changes.
Am I supposed to contact the site's owner to get the pages down now? I don't want to show duplicate content to my site.
Please help!
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It was manual - mainly with my FAQ pages, sizing guide, etc.
I still have loads of duplicate with TERMS and CONDITIONS and PRIVACY POLICY. Is this something to block in robots.txt?
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Are they scraping your content in an automated fashion, like an RSS feed? Or is it more manual?
If it's an RSS feed - just install some links back to your site on every RSS post and you'll be fine.
If it's manual, you can always go the route of a DIY DMCA letter to start with. That usually gets the job done.
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