Paradigmsearch reported on the scraper site Cararticle.net some weeks ago. Up until this week, they hadn't got any of my content, but I found several of my hubs there yesterday - DMCA filed, same old, same old However, what's really ticking me off is that the copies are already outranking my originals in a search.
I started a thread a week or so ago about healthylivingbox.net, who are also scraping the site wholesale and outranking some hubs.
Susana S shared an article yesterday in which it was suggested that Google is pushing "freshness" heavily at the moment - apparently even freshly stolen content >
So - can people please check the sites, file the DMCAs and get these people shut down. Google transparency report shows that only a few hubbers have filed with Google - hundreds must be affected.
I am seeing that with another site - all-topics dot com. Some of my articles there are out ranking mine. filed reports on them and rank08 yesterday. I'll go check out the car site.
Google algorithm simply fails to differentiate between original and copied contents.
Rank08 has been completely dropped from google search.
Can we get the url right?
I'm assuming it's...
all-topic[dot]com
...without the S and WITH a hyphen?
I'm seeing that too, and not only with that cararticle site. I never worried so much when Hubs got copied because my originals always crushed them in the SERPs. Now it seems like something has changed.
I see Paul E is having the same problem.
http://pauledmondson.hubpages.com/hub/T … ng-Scraped
Healthylivingbox.net has also scrape some of my hubs - copyright and all. I'm not sure how anyone could say this is not usually a problem. It has been a consistent problem as far as I know. This is one of the reasons I started including my copyrights at the top of my hubs. Scrapers copy the whole thing and Google can clearly see my copyright on my hub copied to their site. It is a never ending battle. Google now also has a page to report scrapers.
It's not usually a problem in the sense that scrapers don't normally outrank originals in the search results.
Yeah they do.
I have seen it lots of times despite what Google says.
Oh they can in certain circumstances - like if your pages have been downgraded or penalised by a Google algorithm. But as far as anything I've ever published online - I've never had a copy outrank me for my title or main keyword phrases. Therefore, they've never really "hurt", just been an annoyance to get rid of.
I've had stolen Blog entries outrank the originals.
I've seen copied news items out rank the NY Times and Washington Post originals.
I've seen Wikipedia articles copied word for word outrank the original Wikipedia articles.
It happens all the time.
This happened to one of my hubs; the copied one outranked the original one. That was before I filed DMCA and took it down.
This is sad because most of the due traffic to our hubs will pass on to the copying site. Bad for Hubbers and Hubpages.
Just reported Healthy living box which has stolen 2 of my articles. I reported to the hosting company as sometimes they take things down more quickly than Google. I wanted to report with Wordpress, but Wordpress has this claim "Verify that the blog in question is hosted by Automattic. We have no control over blogs that say “Powered by WordPress.org.” Those blogs use the open source WordPress software and are not hosted by us. Please contact the appropriate web host with complaints. We only host blogs that have “wordpress.com” in their URL or that say “powered by WordPress.com” on the site." It's frustrating that we have to go through this whole hassle to report every time. I wished hubpages could one day disable the ability to copy text and add a warning when anybody tries to do so. I think this would discourage a lot of plagiarizers.
It is outrageous that scrapers who steal our stuff then get to outrank us in search. And I don't even like to think about how this is impacting our hubs getting unfeatured. I've been feeling rather discouraged about everything in general lately and had given up trying to fight back, but you make a good point that failing to file is hurting others too, not just ourselves. I will try to do some digging this weekend and file on whatever I find.
This is ridiculous! I found 50+ hubs of mine on the healthylivingbox site. Instead of working on my client project, I wasted my time searching for my hubs after I saw this post. Tomorrow I have to file DMCA for all the hubs I found. This site is full of scraped content from hubpages. So I guess the better option could be to get the hosting provider (ihs.com.tr/mainMenu.html or oxenon.com not sure) to take the site down. I am really hating this! No wonder the traffic of my best performing hubs have gone down significantly.
The site has scraped several of mine as well. They even took my HubPages tutorials...go figure!
Find more of your stolen content on these threads:
http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/115415
http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/115428
http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/115339
http://the10things.com/working-from-hom … tion-jobs/
This blog has copied my hub so others might want to check if he's copied yours too.
Report that blog to Google AdSense, too:
https://support.google.com/adsense/trou … 0500?hl=en
Just went to visit our old friend at all-topic and there is now a blank page with this message:
"My website is come back soon! Thank you."
Success!
If he does it again, it won't be on that URL.
The rank 08 site is now Hawk Hosting but they still have the HP favicon.
This tells me that the heinous drop in pageviews is not to be attributed to stolen content.
Hawk Hosting is an affiliate of softlayer.com. The DMCA requests were filed with softlayer and it removed the site from the hosting privileges given to Hawk Hosting. What you are seeing now is a blank dashboard displayed by Hawk Hosting saying that there is no content on the Rank08 site anymore (because the host removed it). If Rank08 resurfaces somewhere, it will be with a different hosting company.
by Helen Murphy Howell 9 years ago
I have a number of hubs whose content has been stolen. I've tried to trace the people and the websites, in order to file a DMCA but I keep getting a dead end - many are posted on sites in India etc. Is there any point in trying to continue with this? I seem to have wasted so much time trying to...
by LongTimeMother 11 years ago
I have copied the list of 'recent posts' on a site called holidaySTOLENworlds.net (with the world STOLEN removed because I don't want to provide a link to their site.)My article titled 'Why Children Should Be Taught to Tell Lies' has been on their site since February. The bottom of the page...
by chet thomas 10 years ago
After reading the other forums on copied hubs, I ran a check on several of mine. I found two at:http://the-alps (dot) us/and I suspect there are lots of other hubbers' hubs there. A quick search found a hub by Admiral Murrah, but there are many articles on the site, obviously copied. Also one hub...
by Jessica 11 years ago
I found out this morning that this site had stolen at least 2 of my hubs. The more I looked, the more I noticed that it appears every single post on the site is a stolen hub, completely copied in most cases (including the authors' names and copyright notes, ironically). I see lots of names of...
by Sally Gulbrandsen 10 years ago
I find this all so depressing. Can anyone tell me how long after filing a DMCA complaint does it take to resolve these issues - or is it as long as a piece of string?How does earth does one motivate oneself to write more hubs when this continues to happen.
by Hubalicious 16 years ago
http://xhubpages.wordpress.com/ with a user name of rayskd2000 is stealing content from hubpages and linking back to the original articles with their own signup token in the link.I guess if people sign up after coming from that site the person will make money from additional ad views...
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