Ever Had Your Pages Stolen and then De-indexed?
Update: After mailing and threatening to report the content thief to Google AdSense and Search he promptly removed all of my content off his site - I thought I may as well put the shits up him and it seemed to work. I’ll watch to see if those particular pages are re-indexed as I’m still unsure wether it’s because he copied them or because Google is just fucked at the moment.
Apparently I’m not the only one.
I have so far managed to track 6 articles of mine that I put on my website that have been copied, which have led to the 6 pages on my site being de-indexed while the person who stole them is indexed, with them being the only website in Google with those articles now.
The articles in question cost me $6 each which isn’t much, but that’s $36 I spent on content to rank for 6 phrases which means the thief in question has took money out of my pocket and is now the only one who can actually profit off the articles.
Given I have spent over $1,800 in content with over 300 pages on this particular site, can I really afford to lose anymore in this fashion? No.
Why exactly have Google decided another site that came after mine should be indexed for the article and I should be de-indexed, exactly?
It seems I certainly aren’t alone and there’s plenty of people affected by this, so why is it still happening 6 months after Googleguy took a look in to the issue at this persons blog and knowing about all of the people on Webmasterworld who have suffered.
Should I just continue to purchase original content and have it stolen and then de-indexed. Is that what you suggest, Google?
Fucking sort it out, you have had long enough.
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Same thing happened to me a couple of months ago. I did some research and find phone number of site owner. I called him and he removed my content from his site.
Eave he took my content my site wasn’t deindexed and always was ranked higher than his.
Comment by superclick — July 8, 2006 @ 9:11 pm
It’s not beyond the realms pf posability that the content you bought isn’t exlusive and that someone is going round selling the same old articles over and over again.
Comment by Dan — July 17, 2006 @ 4:20 pm
Stumbled across your blog via DP. Great rant!
Have you considered writing to Google regarding this? I’m keen to hear of their response.
Comment by Art — July 21, 2006 @ 9:14 pm