Another website copying lots of content from Pethelpful

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   alexadryposted 6 months ago

   The website in question is https://boburga dot ru
   It has dozens of my articles and pictures stolen and I see many familiar articles from other hubbers who write about pets here.
   
   I assume they are planning to steal articles on other topics from here soon considering that they have several subheads tackling cooking, health, parenting etc.
   Thought to give a head's up to those writing on Pethelpful.
   
   They are monetizing on the articles with Google ads.
   
   I am having trouble finding their hosting company. It says cloudflare but I once contacted cloudflare a while back and they said they were not a host.

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      Susana Sposted 6 months agoin reply to this

      Reporting them to Google AdSense will hurt them the most in the long term because they'll lose their account. The downside is you usually have to wait a while for Google to deal with it. In the meantime you can also report it to Google search to make sure the pages don't get traffic.

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         siramaposted 6 months agoin reply to this

         You mean raising a DMCA? While I search in google some time I see result which reads similar to, "Skipped the result because of DMCA Complaint".

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         alexadryposted 6 months agoin reply to this

         Thanks Susana, it' just an exhausting process when you have over 20 articles copied. I try to do a few a day, but my preferred method was to report directly to the hosting company as they would just take it down versus Google just de-indexing it.

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            DrMark1961posted 6 months agoin reply to this

            If it is a Russian hosting company you are most likely wasting your time. Susana´s option is better.

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            Susana Sposted 6 months agoin reply to this

            It is a pain for sure. That's also my preferred option because it's the fastest.
            
            Cloudflare should pass on the DMCA to the host. Did you fill out this form? https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/form

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               alexadryposted 6 months agoin reply to this

               Thank you so kindly. I wasn't aware of this option from Cloudflare. It did give at the end the option of informing the host and the website owner. Will keep posted on what happens next.

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      Matt Wellsposted 6 months agoin reply to this

      You can report the copied content to Google here. Click "Submit a Legal Request" to get started. The articles may not be unpublished, but they will most likely be removed from Google's search results.

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   Titiaposted 6 months ago

   I just took a peek at that website, but how on earth can I discover if my articles are on there. Do I have to scroll through them all? I don't have time to do that.

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