Resultantly, copying content has grown beyond the control in Pakistan. As online media is surging in terms of visibility, benefits and revenues, the magnitude of new websites appearing on Pakistan horizon has crossed the estimates.
Unfortunately, most of these websites are content lifters or aggregators. They keep reproducing your content without any credit, or link back. Print Media is not left behind in this race too.
From real life example, it is just like if a you have a shop and another shopkeeper steps-in and start looting your goods. He then re-sale those goods at his own price. Other way around copy/pasting business had high returns, without any investment/efforts involved.
Don’t let the copiers lift your content! Deal with them very strictly. Lifters may start getting higher rank over your keywords, this gonna be a nightmare for you with dropping traffic and many other horrific consequences.
How to Report to Google about Copyright Violation:
Okay, now if you are one of such annoyed bloggers, whose content is being lifted openly and shamelessly, try following trick:
Step 1: Go to Google’s Online DMCA complaint page here: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=dmca_complaint
Step 2: Fill the form with all required information.
Step 3: You are done. Wait for few days or couple of weeks at most and Google will surely take action against the website.
Possible Outcomes:
Content Reproduction on News/Blog Aggregates with Consent:
News/Blog Aggregators are reproducing my content with my consent, should I be worried of keyword ranking for my website: well this is a debatable topic. Micheal Gray has written this useful post, in which he compares the pros and cons of aggregations. Summary of this article is as following:
So based on individual case and situation you can decide on news/blog aggregators. About content lifters, don’t spare them.
