How to Report Content Theft?

You spend a lot of time and effort writing posts in your blog. May be you have placed a copyright information, terms of service, copyscape banner, copygator banner and whatsoever but you know that you are totally helpless against plagiarism. You can't protect your content from being copied by others. And now with the increasing number of spam auto-blogs its not surprising to find your whole website under different domain name. Like the god loves his creatures, you love your creations.

Lets come to the point. How do you punish such sites?

Lately I found out that almost every content including the pictures from one of my blogs had been copied by a spam blog under a category. That particular spam blog had 10-15 daily posts with different articles from blogs of different niche. So, I decided to inform the owner of that blog about the copyright policy asking him to remove all the posts copied from my blog. Even after a week, neither did he reply me neither did he bother to remove those posts. Then I came down to threatening him saying that I shall report his website to google, google adsense and his webhosting. This method had worked several times before but not this time.


So, now was the real time to file a spam report in Google against the spam site. After filing the report, within 2 days, the spam site got punished by Google. It worked like a charm. All the links of the site vanished from the Google search.


How do you file a Spam Report?

1. Log in to Webmaster Tools
2. Navigate to Spam Report Page
3. Now in the 1st box fill up the link of the site or the particular webpage that contains the copied content
4. To fill up the 2nd box : Copy the part of the original post from your blog/website and search in google by pasting it in the google searchbox.
5. To fill the 3rd box : Copy the url of the spam blog from the search results and paste it.
6. Then check the types of problem you have with the spam website/blog (duplicate site or pages and other)
7. Specify additional details : if you have several posts copied by the site report it here.
8. Hit "Report Spam" button and wait for few days to see the spam site being punished

You can try other methods also:

• Filing a DMCA complaint with the Web Hosting Company
• Filing a DMCA Complaint with Google Adsense