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**usearchme** · 10-27-2011, 08:56 AM

hi Guys

I never thought anyone could get their rankings stole but clearly you can, one of my dating sites had its whole content stolen and put onto another url.

This new url replaced my site in every single ranking I had and my site has totally disappeared.

I have now got onto the host and got the offending site removed, but It seems my site is being filtered now, maybe because Google thought the offending site had the original content. My homepage isnt even indexed.

I cant post the url its an adult dating site btw, well i dont think i can anyway.

I dont understand how they managed to do ? why wouldnt google pick up that i had the original content as I had it first ?

Woc

**chrishirst** · 10-27-2011, 09:46 AM

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This new url replaced my site in every single ranking I had and my site has totally disappeared.

It's probably just what always happens with new pages, they appear high in the rankings for a few days or a couple or three weeks then drop into oblivion until the pages build up enough "traction".
Have SE referrals dropped off or is it just your particular view of the search results that has changed?

Google has no idea which site has the "original content" only when it was first discovered.

**usearchme** · 10-27-2011, 12:05 PM

Hi chris

Yeah hardly any hits at all today as the site that stole my rankings was still refering customers to me, but now thats taken down ive got nothing.

Suppose it will take time for the content to disapear, maybe when google realises they have taken my content down, my rankings might reappear.

Frightneing someone can do that, my site had been ranking consistantly for the last 5 years in those position.

Woc

**IraMency** · 06:34 PM

How can this be legal? It is theft of your content. I mean can you go to a CACHE shot of your page, any page that they stole and prove that the original content was yours PRIOR to them heisting it? Sounds to me like the competition got wind of your keywords and placement noticing you with consistent rank, and decided to copy it word for word and got ranking above you, which is scary that something like this can happen and what's to say it can't happen to all of us? Where is Big Brother when you need him?

Cindy
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**chrishirst** · 10-27-2011, 05:48 PM

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How can this be legal?

It's not, but that does not stop many people.

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Sounds to me like the competition got wind of your keywords and placement noticing you with consistent rank,

You seem to have the wrong idea of "keywords" and "ranking"

**usearchme** · 06:14 PM

hi

Its not legal, i filed a dmca takedown notice and it has been removed, unfortuantly the site is still occupiing my postions.

I think they just stole my content and the domain they stole it with had a fair few backlinks, so somehow they managed to get my positions with using my content and get my site filtered in the process due to duplicate content i think google assumed theirs was the original content, its odd as if you put adult dating into google.co.uk it still sits at number 1 where my site was orginally and im no where to be seen. Another different content site has appeared on there now totally new content very odd !!!

It does seem odd that this has happened and I still cant quite figure it out.

Woc

**chrishirst** · 10-27-2011, 06:37 PM

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and get my site filtered in the process due to duplicate content i think google assumed theirs was the original content,

Nope it was only there because it was 'new', and search engines have always shown newly discovered pages on the first page.

**usearchme** · 07:11 PM

why has it dropped my site then and replaced it with his ? my homepage isnt even indexed anymore now ?

Woc

**chrishirst** · 10-28-2011, 08:44 AM

Because the other pages are newer.

And your pages are still indexed (assuming that is the right site of course)

You probably do lots of pointless "rank checking" for whatever "keywords" you think are important so the soogle "personalised search" assumes that YOU would want to see whatever is the latest "discovery" for those words and phrases. So that is what it shows you.

When those pages have had their "fifteen minutes of fame" they will drop away and have to begin "earning their position".

**IraMency** · 10-30-2011, 12:36 PM

I'll attempt to reply again. As a book author and writer I have had my content stolen on more than one occasion. Literally this has happened twice. In one case, my published content was stolen to a site here in the states. By sending letters INTENT TO SUE that you can type yourself and send certified to the webmaster or hosting company proving your content was stolen (by your original indexed pages as Chris above points out) or screenshots of CACHED content if you have changed the pages, you can most likely get the US sites taken down. I have been successful 13 out of 15 times in doing this myself. I actually use Copyscape now on some of my more popular articles to make sure that they are not being stolen.

Now, where I have not been successful is in that some of my published content on the web was republished in another language and retitled, with NO credit to me, and get this, was getting great page rank on someone else's blog. Since I can't understand the language and the translator tools aren't much help I don't want to spend legal fees into another country wherein my lawyer has no jurisdiction and will cost me more than just leaving the article up. I can't seem to get it straight. It's still on there, now, my words, published first here (original article still stands) .

I'm just saying, in most cases you can print screens , proof of theft, and compile a nice certified letter threatening to sue unless the host and persons in charge of the website remove all content as it was yours.

I had one web hosting company get no response from the user and they took the whole site down. It does work.

**chrishirst** · 10-30-2011, 02:36 PM

But only if the site owner or the hosting company are located in counties when the Digital Millenium Copyright Act is recognised or counties where copyright and Intellectual Property is respected, and for a DMCA cease and desist to be effected upon the content thieves you need to demonstrate prior publication to establish the Itellectual Property rights.
Having "Copyright 1986-2011" on your pages is not effective, you need to have documentary proof of the content being written in 1986.

**usearchme** · 11-02-2011, 08:47 PM

hi guys

i have managed to resolve it now.

And my site seems to be back where it started from, just took a bit of time for google to drop the stolen content and my rankings returned.

Still not sure how they managed it but hey ho

Woc

**vultren** · 11-03-2011, 01:34 AM

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Originally Posted by usearchme

hi guys

i have managed to resolve it now.

And my site seems to be back where it started from, just took a bit of time for google to drop the stolen content and my rankings returned.

Still not sure how they managed it but hey ho

Woc

Good to see that cleared. Interesting that someone would steal a dating website... if you find out how they stole it, please post I am curious.