Months back Google rolled out improve algo to fight against Scraper site and later Google panda rolled out, instead of eliminating scrapper sites from Internet, Panda increased the ranking of many scrapper site and even original content was outranked by such scrapper site. Bloggers like me worked day and night to report such posts to Google DMCA & spam report team but in vain, since the system is automated, you might end up reporting hundred such pages every day but next day you will find another hundred such posts. Later on I changed my blogs feed to partial feed to help Google understand which is original content and also to avoid duplicate content penalty.
Anyways, if you are like me who have been facing issues with such spam sites, here is a news which might interest you. Google is working on understanding the scrapper sites better so that they can improve their search engine Algorithm to fight against them. And for the same reasons they are asking webmasters and bloggers to help them by reporting such sites using a form. (Link below).
Today Matt Cutts (Engineer at Google), tweeted saying:
“Scrapers getting you down? Tell us about blog scrapers you see:http://goo.gl/S2hIh We need datapoints for testing.”
This is not the same as reporting DMCA but helping Google to understand how content scrapper site works in improving their ranking and what changes Google can make in it’s algorithm to eliminate such sites from search engine.
In case if you are not aware of what scrapper site is, it’s a spam site which is created for either creating revenue, outrank original site or improve ranking of other sites by linking to other sites. Reason could be anyone but by the end it’s the original author who faces the consequences.
Personally, in last 4 months I have reported over 1500+ such links to Google web spam team and filed a DMCA using Google DMCA form and seems like there is no end to it. This news actually given me a sign of relief and I hope in near future, I expect such spammy sites to die. Google should also implement a way, so that anyone can report the complete spam domain, instead of reporting individual posts which is a tedious job.
If you are a blogger, you can always find duplicate content using any of these 10 tools and fill out this form and help Google to understand why content scrapper sites are ranking better. Filling out form is easy, simply search in Google using your title or a line from any of your last 3-4 posts, put the search term you used and add original link and the scraper site link. (Link of the page where your content is copied). Hit back button and similarly report other pages too. For every domain which copied your post, do it atleast once.
I hope to see Google working on new algo soon and removed all such content scrapper sites from Web index. This will directly helps in increasing search engine traffic to your site and also increase in revenue. Anyways, for now go ahead and fill out the form.
Are you also a victim of content scrapper site? What actions have you taken till now to fight against them?
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Well that’s a great move by google to actually get down the scraper sites.
Hope it really continuous further
And 1500+ links reported by you ? Hmm.. though bad to see such huge content, but still good try harsh
Thanks Harsh. I have a scrapper site to tackle. In fact, the webmaster had agreed to take down the articles but I don’t see that happening. Your inputs surely helps.
Wow over 1,500 links in 4 months? That’s really something
I’m glad I only have a few occasions but definitely not as many as you, Harsh
Maybe one day Google can implement a new way to find that you are the original writer of the content (using the tag does not seem to help much at this stage if your blog doesn’t get indexed first)
Is Filling the DMCA notice the only way to fight against scrappers??
I think google must find an automated system to find scrappers .