I Got A Scraper Delisted From Google ...
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I have an electronics niche news website. A scraper who had an online store selling products in my niche copied every one of my articles and posted them on his site under the heading "News" ... generally within 1/2 hour of me posting them on my site. His site was even showing up in the rankings before mine. I filed a copyright infringement claim with Google two weeks ago via their online form explaining what he was doing. Today, I received an email from Google saying that they have reviewed his site and have delisted it from the search engine. I just checked, and he is GONE ... completely delisted, no trace. My site traffic has also jumped at least 25% today. It pays to complain!
Just sharing
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Thanks
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Hello Patrick,
Thanks for reaching out to us.
In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have completed processing your infringement notice. The following URLs will be removed from Google’s search results in a few hours:
However we need additional information from you in order to continue investigating. Regarding this URL you've provided, please identify the exact content that you claim infringes upon your copyright. Once we have received this information, we will be able to continue our investigation.
We appreciate your cooperation.
Please let us know if we can assist you further.
If you would like to file additional requests, we ask that you contact us by using the online forms at: www.google.com/support/go/legal as we do not accept add-on requests.
Regards,
The Google Team
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I'd love to see the whole email if there's any more to it than what you wrote here.
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Hey that's a great story! Thanks for sharing, it's nice to hear that these things are resolvable.
Nicely done.
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