Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
Unfortunately, it has finally happened: A web site has stolen part of my content and Google have discovered the stolen page.
The page is about a highly competitive key word, and it comes from one of my pages that is ranking pretty high on this key word.
Should I notify Google? How? Is there a general method or should I go through the AdSense-abuse email, as I am an AdSense publisher?
Thank you
You might give the offending site the courtesy of an email heads up, but stealing is stealing. Place a DMCA complaint with their host. The host is then obligated (with some exceptions) to remove the offending pages. Additionally, this act of theft may violate the host's TOS. If so they might just remove all of the offending website's pages. Turn about is fair play.
If they have stolen content .. truely taken it direct from your site then i would file a DMCA complaint, notify their host and notify google or they will continue to do it again.. either to you or someone else.