Google Gives You a Form to Report Scrapers Ranking Higher Than Your Original Content

By Chris Crum

Google has a form called the Scraper Report for people to report when they see a scraper site ranking ahead of the original content that it’s scraping.

Head of webspam Matt Cutts tweeted:

If you see a scraper URL outranking the original source of content in Google, please tell us about it: http://t.co/WohXQmI45X

— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) February 27, 2014

The form asks for the URL on the site where the content was taken from, the exact URL on the scraper site, and the Google search result URL that demonstrates the problem.

It then asks you to confirm that your site is following Google Webmaster Guidelines and is not affected by any manual actions. You confirm this with a checkbox.

Danny Sullivan asks a good question:

@mattcutts will you actually do removals with this form, or are you harvesting signals to try and prevent the problem algorithmically?

— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) February 27, 2014

No answer on that so far, though Sullivan suggests in an article that Google will “potentially” use it as a way to improve its ranking system.

Hat tip to Larry Kim for spotting this one:

.@mattcutts I think I have spotted one, Matt. Note the similarities in the content text: pic.twitter.com/uHux3rK57f

— dan barker (@danbarker) February 27, 2014

Source: WebPro News 2

Google Gives You a Form to Report Scrapers Ranking Higher Than Your Original Content