Anyone Ripped Off By Petradars?

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   Jana Louise Smitposted 2 years ago

   I recently had one of my pet articles plagiarized by Petradars.com. They had the audacity to claim the article is under a Creative Commons license. Their host ignored my DMCA submission and the Contact Page on the site itself is a dead link. Even the About Me page leads to a Chinese website. Does anyone have any advice on how to get an article off a site that basically ignores you? I'm concerned that they might take more of my pet articles and those are my main topics.

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      Miebakagh57posted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Jana, sorry for that. Not long ago, certain hubbers are complaining like you were. They said the whole PetHelpful site has been hijacked and all articles plagiarized.                                          It's a thread for discussion. Seems you miss.

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         Jana Louise Smitposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Hi there, I followed your suggestion and found that thread. Seems like this site stole the whole Pethelpful. Thanks for telling me.

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      Matt Wellsposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      You should file a DMCA complaint with Google to have the copied content removed from search results. Please visit the FAQ for instructions.

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         Jana Louise Smitposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Hi Matt. I did file one, thank you.

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      alexadryposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      I found my most recent article copied there as well. They copy everything pictures, bio etc. and from a variety of websites. Thank you for pointing this out. I filed a DMCA myself as well.

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         Miebakagh57posted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Execellent. Let's hear the DMCA result.

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   TessSchlesingerposted 2 years ago

   Basically there's nothing you can do.
   
   Google does not remove the story from the site. It simply de-indexes it so that it doesn't send traffic there. The best you can do is file a DMCA complaint. That's it.
   
   I've had hundreds of my stories stolen through the years. I've had books put on sites that get free downloads.
   
   I live with it.

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      Miebakagh57posted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Tessa, I had you in mind when I post the my above reply.                                 Fortunately, I'm mind not to mention you, because you've not enter the discourse. Having test and experienced the issue, your presense here is worthy.                                              Thanks for wading in, to inform and enlghten us further. Enjoy the week.

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      Sherry Hewinsposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Yes, this is true. When Google de-indexes the copied article, it's not going to affect your traffic anymore (if it ever did). It's still annoying though.

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   quotationsposted 2 years ago

   Also complain to the domain registrar to have their domain de-listed and if that fails complain to icann, the authority that licenses companies to sell domains. They can revoke a domain registration for abuse or illegal activity including infringing copyright. https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/a … 4-01-29-en
   
   The fact that they have apparently copied the entire pethelpful site would certainly qualify. Whether the authorities take action will vary.

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   CYong74posted 2 years ago

   After filing a DMCA report with Google, don't forget to do likewise for Bing at https://www.microsoft.com/info/Search.html
   
   Bing accounts for a small percentage of searches, but when you look at the actual figures, it is still significant. Anyhow, I find Bing far easier to deal with than Google. Much, MUCH faster in response too.

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   Miebakagh57posted 2 years ago

   Many thanks to both quotation and Cyong74 for the link.                                       Actually, appealing in favour of an infringe copyright article per the DMCA is a complicate process. Many here has found it tiresome.                                          Here's my thinking and opinion: if I want to register a domain name for example, www.Miebakagh57.com/ search has to be made whether that user name has been taken or not, right? An alternate on the name can be suggest by the search result. Title of articles were also search this way.                                      Couldn't by this way a method be deviced to check  copyright articles from being publish again on another website, except by the original author?

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      theraggededgeposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      I check my articles using Google. Rather than the title, which is rarely unique, I paste in a section of text from various places throughout the article. Sometimes they only steal part of it.
      
      You can't copyright titles. They are too short.

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   psycheskinnerposted 2 years ago

   I think deranking the page from Google accomplishes something, both in directing traffic back to your own version and chipping away at the bad site.  Once Google sees a lot of DMCAs against a host site they eventually derank the entire site which puts it out of business at least for a while.

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      Miebakagh57posted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks for the finer points. Putting the plagiarizing website completely out of business is best.

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