Not ranking - Scarped content
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Hi,
I have a problem with a website, that never compe up with before.
The website is: https://www.enallaktikidrasi.com
It has a bunch of excellent articles, good enough on-page SEO and a medium backlink profile. However, it is ranking just for very very few keywords.
The major problem is that there are original articles that searched by their title won't appear in top100 results but they will appear in other websites that scapre them (even if they give a backlink to our original article!)
Also, the website has good rankings in Bing and Yahoo but not in Google. There are keywords ranking in #1 in Bing but nowhere in top10 pages in Google....
I am guessing for 3 issues:
1. Majestic shows a very low trust score (just 13). However, the website has not got any kind of penalty in the last 3 years.
2. There are many scarpers. The odd is that scarpers with no real value outrank our content. (Scarpers with almost zero backlink profile)
3. We ran Sucuri on website as there were a large bots attack. Is there a correlation between it bots attack and Google results? (but why not in Bing and Yahoo too?)
It seems like Google underestimates the website when indexing websites for some reason. Moreover, some of the articles are really the best around but the keywords they are targeted are not either within the 30 first pages...
Any help?? Thanks..
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Thats for sure right, but the problem is that we have made many DMCA's
When we do a DMCA, almost immediately Google ranks our site 1st when searching for the exact title of the article and scrapers are below. However, after 2-3 days our article disappears again.
I really can't understand what is going on and guess that our domain is depreciated for some reason. I suspect it is going on due to 2 reasons:
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It seems impossible not rank even in 100 results for an article when scrapers rank 1,2, or 3 top position for the same article, and scrapers have lower website quality or bad backlinks profile. It cant be possible neither findind our website in top10 pages. So, I think it is a matter of domain undervalued.
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It can't be possible all the articles in Bing and Yahoo getting 1st when searching with their title and only scrapers with better backlink profile outrank us in this case (despite the fact that they link to our articles.) However, in Bing and Yahoo, even if competitors are #1 or #2 result, we are for sure 1st page and just below them (#2 or #3.) I can understand it absolutetly. But cannot understand why Google neither shows our article in 100 results. Its just abnormal. (And the articles are properly indexed).
So confused...
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If you have a genuine case of copyright infringement and have done what you need to do to protect your property then you might be able to start a DMCA complaint campaign against these pirates. We had a lot of infringement happening so we got legal guidance to be sure we understand fair use, understand the possible consequences of filing DMCA and making sure that we were in a defensible position. Then we started filing DMCAs to Google and to hosting companies and filing complaints to Adsense, where the sites were monetized that way. Last year we filed over 100 DMCAs and lots of complaints to Adsense. That work required a lot of time but it was helpful for improving our situation. In the end it was time well spent.
Be sure to get qualified legal advice because copyright laws and the principles of fair use and fair dealings vary from one country to another. Google will assist the defense of accused infringers in court if they believe that DMCA has been misused.
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Have you thought about using Cloudflare? From what I can understand, it can help block malicious traffic.
There is no telling exactly what Google is objecting to - if the site keeps dropping, this could be a major issue.
-Andy
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Thank you Andy.
It's true there are problems at some times. The problems derive from bot traffic. We have installed Sucuri in order to protect the spam activity.
That's my question exactly. I suspect that Google "sees" all this bot traffic and maybe undervalues the whole website.
There is exceptionally good and unique content and almost 16.000 articles...
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I don't know if it's related, but I can't actually get to the site at the moment.
www.enallaktikidrasi.com’s server <abbr title="DNS is the network service that translates a website’s name to its Internet address.">DNS address</abbr> could not be found.
-Andy
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