You found someone scraping your website's content... now what?

by adribabe

Posted: 11 years ago 20 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

You found someone scraping your website's content... now what?

Thusfar I've attempted to email the site owner via the website's contact form.
I'm done a domain whois and emailed their privacy-protected email address.

What else can I/should I be doing? Any way of alerting Google of the scraped content on someone else's site so it will be beat down in the SERPs?

What would you do?

#content #found #scraping #website

Jreed 11 years ago

I would probably bang my head on the keyboard then go and kick my dog. But that's just me :p

The internet is like the wild wild west, rarely any justice for things like that.

What worked for me when I had someones content on my site (damn autoblogging software) They sent me a legal looking cease and desist letter, demanding I take their picture down or else (worded better than that of course). They provided links to exactly where their picture was on my site.

I didn't want the headache so I just took them down.

Don't send a personal request. find a template and send a legal cease and desist notice.

In my opinion asking an authority to make them remove the post would be about as futile as asking security guards at a rock concert to ask the guy in row 3B to stop yelling profanities.
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sbucciarel Banned 11 years ago

Send a DMCA to his host. That's the only really effective way to get it removed, usually within 48 hrs.
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- BlvdJeremy 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by sbucciarel
  
  Send a DMCA to his host. That's the only really effective way to get it removed, usually within 48 hrs.
  
  Probably the most civil way to go about handling this type of situation.
  
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- Paul200 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by sbucciarel
  
  Send a DMCA to his host. That's the only really effective way to get it removed, usually within 48 hrs.
  
  This is one of the most effective ways to get copyrighted content taken down as long as the host is not a rouge host who doesent reply to DMCA requests.
  
  These guys might be able to help you but it will cost you money
  
  DMCA Protection & Takedown Services
  
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SunilTanna 11 years ago

Get their ip address and serve different content to their scrapper
Be inventive !
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- Kwaku 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by SunilTanna
  
  Get their ip address and serve different content to their scrapper
  Be inventive !
  
  This is excellent; get a Markov chain script, feed it 100.000 free porn stories from bit torrent and feed that to the scraper
  
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- CyberSEO 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by SunilTanna
  
  Get their ip address and serve different content to their scrapper
  Be inventive !
  
  Sounds cool, but every modern content scrapper can use proxies and spoof referrer URL's. How will you protect against them?
  
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AndrewCavanagh 11 years ago

I usually send Guido around to wack em!

Actually I do much worse than that. Some of it
has been mentioned here but that's just the beginning
for people who steal my content.

Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh
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Lloyd Buchinski 11 years ago

Here are a couple of links for removing the copied content from the search results.

https://support.google.com/webmaster.../1663688?hl=en

https://www.google.com/webmasters/to...rd?hl=en&pli=1
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- JohnMcCabe 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by sbucciarel
  
  Send a DMCA to his host. That's the only really effective way to get it removed, usually within 48 hrs.
  
  Also CC: their domain registrar and any affiliate companies or ad networks they may be using.
  
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Story 11 years ago

As far as I know, DMCA is the most effective way to have the copied content removed.
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trader909 11 years ago

annoying to hell....but not much you ca do it about it. what about the 10+ you have not found?
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petelta 11 years ago

I would spend my time making more money rather than chasing everyone that tries to copy my greatness.

Take the content theft as a compliment and move on.
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- JohnMcCabe 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by petelta
  
  I would spend my time making more money rather than chasing everyone that tries to copy my greatness.
  
  Take the content theft as a compliment and move on.
  
  I have a hard time taking any kind of theft as a compliment.
  
  I don't spend a lot of time or effort chasing the copycats. It's like trying to bail out the ocean with a teaspoon.
  
  But, for me at least, a few minutes of research and an email with a couple of CC:s make it easier to let go and move on...
  
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adribabe 11 years ago

The website uses a service called Ning. So I'm putting the shout out to Ning's DMCA form: DMCA Notice
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- sbucciarel Banned 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by adribabe
  
  The website uses a service called Ning. So I'm putting the shout out to Ning's DMCA form: DMCA Notice
  
  That's probably a waste of time. A DMCA to their host is the most effective and quickest way to stop them. They'll have 24 hrs to take it down or their host will suspend them.
  
  Instructions here
  http://domainingdiva.com/legal-issue...ipoff-artists/
  
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adribabe 11 years ago

I've noticed 2 of the 3 pages are removed. 1 remains.

While it's still up I'm reporting it to Google and to AdSense.

... not that I'm spiteful or anything
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RyanLB 11 years ago

I would probably email them and ask them to take it down, and then if that didn't work I'd try and scare them with a C&D. If they didn't respond, I would just move on and go about my business I guess.
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adribabe 11 years ago

Ning removed the content from their users domain.

I noticed he's running four Adsense ad blocks per page. I thought the limit was three. I might submit him for that too as a parting "farewell, jerk!"
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danlew 11 years ago

I think you should file a DMCA complaint to the hosting company that the website owner scraped your content. If you want your content to be protected from getting copied, try to use any script that prevents them from copying your content. I think there is a Wordpress plugin that protects you from getting copied by others.
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