How to report copied content from your website to Google and recover your traffic?

If you've a uniques and engaging content then get ready for content hunters to copy or spin it for their own SEO purpose and steal your Google search ranking and traffic.

Such things can harm your blog post or service page or a product page ultimately as you've got ditto attack on your engaging content. You must be thinking and count on Google to crawl and authenticate which website and its content is the original source to rank on some relevant queries, however it's not so.

I've seen and found many question in online forum saying duplicate content from their site is ranking higher than their content. Such things are really hard to cop with.

Therefore, you should take harsh steps to fight for your original content.

Read more about reproting duplicate content with Google here.

Watch this video by Google to learn what type of duplicate content you can report

While you click Submit legal Request you will get below page.

You can find more by clicking see more products that you can report for duplication. If you want to reach above page directly then visit.

If you want to report duplicate content on specific platforms then you should request for specific topic from above image, for example, reporting duplication on Google search, click Web Search option from above image and you'll be moved to below page, now choose your relevant option.

If you want to directly fill legal requests through form then try below forms -

• Copyright infringement reproting form for Google Search
• Copyright infringement reproting form for Google Photos & Videos
• Copyright infringement reproting form for Image Search
• Copyright infringement reproting form for Blogger
• Copyright infringement reproting form for WordPress
• Copyright infringement reproting form for LinkedIn

If you want to protect your website from copying then you should add DMCA badge in your website.

If you want to keep an eye on your content then you can try Grammerly and Copyscape for duplication and pliagrism.

What and Why SEO?

Lets know the term "SEO"

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of optimizing your web presence such that it will be available on search engine to find you easily over all other web presence relative to the search term or keywords.

I know many of us don't know about SEO and its importance. There are rumors that SEO has died but my friend it is not so. SEO will never going to die. Yes the techniques and procedure has changed and it was mandatory bring some changes so make search more reliable, accurate and unique. So our Google search handlers did whatever needed to be done and I appreciate them for making our Internet life easy.

For making your web presence visible Google is crawling and indexing everything timely to update its database and indexes. Whatever we search it queried to Google database and it fetches the required results and related pages as response to our search vow great mechanism.

I have read somewhere that Google has indexed 10% of web and the rest is private unable to search by Google bots.

So this is how Google is making our life easy with lots of results in single click. SEO is the way for making your content, product and services available to the user and business online when they search about it. There is huge competition on web to make your product and services available on top SERP pages and that is what we SEOers do.

Nowadays SEO is very important task to follow by any online available organization because competition is very huge everyone is going for making his business rank higher such that they get enquiries and leads. 90% of enquiries are coming from organic search or natural search and rest are from paid search i.e., PPC.

Importance of SEO:

• Increase your Search Engine presence
• Get you enquiries from your top SERP visibility
• Get you leads for your services and products
• Makes you highly reachable
• Makes you achieve your business goals faster
• Accelerates your business drive into the marketplace

There are lots of aspects that will make you go for SEO of your business website. I have spent my 1.5 years in this field and learned and still learning SEO to make business’s grow online and let people know about this auspicious methodology to be incorporate in their business strategy to market and advertise their business to their potential customers.

Some Important links to learn more about SEO:

• The Beginner's Guide to SEO - By Moz
• What is SEO? - By SearchEngineLand
• Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide - Download PDF By Google
• Learn More about SEO - By Google