Pages Sabotaged (Intentionally or Not) by Reposted Content

Tracking the pages that another site copied and posted on their own site as discovered in Google Search Engine Rankings

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I’ve started to track the pages I had to report to Google related to a particular site in this post. I see that the same site is posting many other cybersecurity news source blogs but they are not copying the entire blog post like they are doing to my site. I am not sure why my site in particular is being targeted.

Update: I had to contact the company multiple times but I did get someone to remove the content so removing the name of the company here. The company stated that this is a problem with the RSS feed and essentially indicated that it was my fault and I should somehow change the RSS feed from Medium which I do not control. If you are running a site based on an RSS feed:

1. Do not copy the title of a blog and use it as the title of your own page. That’s not appropriate.
2. Check and make sure you are not reposting the entire contents of the blog.

I am wondering how many times a person would have to report a site to Google at their legal site before this site is banned from the Google Index. I started listing every page I have to report here because they were not showing up in search engine rankings after the actions taken by the other site. Getting the content removed and posting these links helped Google “find” my content again. (I used to work as an SEO professional back when it was a new thing).

What was also interesting is that this site appeared to be registered at Google Domains or hosted by Google and yet it continues to plagiarize my blogs and others. Google’s legal team has approved every request I submitted for this site so far and yet I keep finding the site has added new pages to their feed from my blog.

You can look up who owns a site at https://whois.sc or other similar websites.

I wrote about how to find sites copying your content and how to report it to Google’s legal team here, along with an example of a blog post copied word for word onto their site:

These are the posts that were previously copied that I found in search engine rankings with no trace of my own pages:

I had to report it multiple times.

This page was actually copied by multiple sites: “Cannot Pass Spaces to AWS CloudFormation Deploy Parameter-Overrides”

This one is particularly interesting because I’ve been fighting spam on Twitter and other social media platforms as well.

A book review:

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Sept 26, 2022: This one was taken out of Google’s index as approved by Google’s legal team but later reappeared.

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Teri Radichel | © 2nd Sight Lab 2022

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