How To Report Copyright Infringement To Google

If you publish content on the internet, other people may copy and post it on their blog site. Some do it because of negligence, but eventually, by losing traffic, you have to pay the cost and your internet rank will decrease.

Google becomes more intelligent to find websites that replicate your content, but not every single time. When others copy articles from your blog, they can sometimes get higher ranking on search engines more highly than your original content.

This Tutorial will also teach you how to report these websites to Google if your content is also copied by others.

Reporting such pages to Google would lead to them being De-indexed from google search engine and thus your website rank increases, furthermore, if the reported page is on Blogspot/Blogger, Google also deletes the article from the blog and this process takes an estimated 3 - 9 days to be fully processed so you have to be patient.

How To Find Sites That Copies Your Contents

There are a lot of services out there that serves this function but my favorites are Smallseotools, and Copyscape because there are totally free, easy to use and shows you the list of all the website stealing your articles. (Note: if you post your articles on forums too, those forums would also be listed).

SmallSeoTools: Copy your articles and paste it in the space provided and then click check for Plagiarism, it would take only a couple of seconds and it will tell you how unique the article is, and if it is not 100% Unique, it would show you a list of websites with similar contents. This service is totally free but you are limited to 1000 words per search and unlimited search daily.

Copyscape: This is similar to Smallseotool but it has an easier method of just pasting the link of the article you want to check, and it will crawl the article, conduct an extensive search and give results of all websites with same contents. There is a daily limit to search conducted on a website and once exceeded, you will be required to buy premium service to continue.

Google Direct: Searching on Google for some specific keywords in your article is also an easier and quicker method of finding such websites for free.
Go to Google, type in your keywords and make sure it long enough and also use the quote sign at the beginning and end of the search. Hit the search button and you will see a list of all websites with the same words.

Example, search for "BEST SOURCES FOR COPYRIGHT FREE PICTURES". and surely Trybeweb should be the only one appearing on the search result.

How To Report Copied Contents To Google

Before reporting any website or web content, ensure that you have properly verified ownership of the content.
Head onto Google DMCA Page and you will see a series of options, select Submit a Legal Request.

A menu of different services would show up and you are expected to choose the platform which you want to file a legal claim on. If it is a website not hosted on Blogspot/Blogger, Select Web Search but if its a Blogspot hosted site you should select Blogger/Blogspot which is usually the option at the top. You can also select other options depending on the service you are reporting.

Lets say you are reporting a Blogspot hosted website, this is what you should do:
On the next page, you should pick this options:

• Google Products: Blogspot/Blogger
• What can we help you with: I have found content that may violate my copyright (you won't find it in the first option so first, you have to click on "I have a legal issue that is not mentioned above."
• Are you the copyright owner: Yes, I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.
• Allegedly infringing work: If it is an Image or Video Select or Click Other.

After doing this, a link would be given and you are expected to click on it, you will be taken to a form where you are to fill information about yourself, your article and the blog stealing your intellectual property.

Fill the form in accordance with the question asked and make sure your replies are clear and very informative, as this would assist Google to investigate and take down the copied contents quickly. Multiple links can be reported using a single form so you don't have to go through this process multiple times.

Double-check your replies and make sure no error is made before submitting the form for review. Wait for a few days and you will get an update from Google about the situation.

I hope this article helped you understand how to fight back copy and paste bloggers and also, bloggers who copy and paste should know that copying articles from Trybeweb would lead to severe punishment from Google.

Important Related Links:
BlogSpot user copying your content: Use this link
WordPress user copying your content: Use this link
Copyright on LinkedIn: Use this link
Copyright from Other platforms: Use this link