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DEINDEXED! January 26, 2011
FIXED! January 31, 2011 - 11:00 AM PDT - Details below
DEINDEXED! February 10, 2011 - Details below
FIXED! February 12, 2011 - 9:00 PM PDT - Details below

In the past, my website content has been scraped many times, by various Internet thieves. The scraped content has been displayed pages deep in the SERPS by Google, so I wasn't too concerned.
But this time, not only was my content scraped, but Google has given the scraper the NUMBER ONE POSITION, using my content. I have been losing THOUSANDS of impressions per day, because of this situation. So has AdSense, since the scraper removed it.

My ORIGINAL content location -
http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/medicine/blood-pressure.htm

The STOLEN content location -
http://www.health-heart.net/Normal-Blood-Pressure-Chart.htm (copy and paste)
As you can now see, the stolen content page has been removed, as of Feb. 1, 2011.

Discussion at Google Webmaster Central
Discussion at Brett's Webmaster World
DMCA.doc

Screenshots -
My Original Page (top)
My Page Scraped by Health-Heart.net (top)
My Original Page (bottom)
My Page Scraped by Health-Heart.net (bottom)

Whois Information on Health-heart.net
Ranking Factors Compared
Loss of Traffic Summary
Other Theft of My Blood Pressure Page Content
Disclaimer

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Here Is My Original Page
Top of my page screen shot

This is my original, canonical web page.

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Here Is My Page - Scraped by health-heart.net
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This is the scraped content web page.

Note that they have removed my logo, and replaced it with their own logo.
They have also removed the link to my Spanish version of the page.
They also removed my URL, and replaced it with their logo.

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Here Is My Original Page
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See the copyright information?

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Here Is MY Content, Scraped by Health-heart.net
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Note that they have edited out my copyright information.
Brazen, documented, intentional theft, in your face.
I have archived all their stolen content files for future reference.

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The PROVIDER
http://www.whois.net/whois/bluehost.com
Bluehost, Inc.
1958 South 950 East
Provo, Utah 84606
I called the number listed on their web site, 888-401-4678
but they don't answer their phone - they use infinite hold as an interface tactic.
It looks like Bluehost is in the business of hosting INTERNET SCRAPERS, and is not responsive.
Their website provides NO EMAIL ADDRESS, and they will not answer the phone.
UPDATE: I have sent a Cease and Desist Order to their email address listed at whois
whois@bluehost.com
on January 29th, 2011 - at - 12:08 PM PDT.

Here it is in GIF format.

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Ranking Factor

Domain Registration
Date from whois

BP Page Age
from Wayback Machine

Domain PR

Blood Pressure Page PR

Page Backlinks from
Yahoo Site Explorer

Page Backlinks from
Google Webmaster Tools

Page Backlinks from
Google Webmaster Tools
to the PDF version
of JUST the graphic

Total Backlinks
for Site
Google Webmaster Tools

Google Result -
Bottom Line

False canonization.
Obviously, Google indexing and search are broken.
The question is, for how long will they stay that way? 6 days

Both Bing and Yahoo give my page the #1 position in their SERPs, for the search phrase - blood pressure range. The problem was with Google exclusively.

** Up until Jan. 31, my only link to the graphic PDF page was from the main, complete html blood pressure page.

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Whereas, my page has come up #1 for the Google search - blood pressure range - FOR YEARS, my EXACT content (with a few omissions) is now being presented by Google as being the property of health-heart.net, IN THE #1 SPOT! My original, canonical page is gone.

How is it that Google is displaying MY CONTENT as belonging to health-heart.net?
This has been my most popular page, for over 6 years.

To illustrate my point with some data --->
Here is a summary of my recent Blood Pressure page popularity in Google -

42.2% of all my impressions - All of 2010

41.5% of all my impressions - January 3-10, 2011
41.4% of all my impressions - January 11-17, 2011
40.3% of all my impressions - January 18-24, 2011
36.7% of all my impressions - January 25, 2011

15.6% of all my impressions - January 26, 2011 - The BIG CRASH - New algo went live
12.5% of all my impressions - January 27, 2011
  9.0% of all my impressions - January 28, 2011
  9.4% of all my impressions - January 29, 2011 **
  9.1% of all my impressions - January 30, 2011 ***
  8.8% of all my impressions - January 31, 2011 (10 AM)***
11 AM - FIXED! Even I am seeing my site's page at the top again!
11.8% of all my impressions - January 31, 2011 (11 AM)
14.0% of all my impressions - January 31, 2011 (noon)
16.7% of all my impressions - January 31, 2011 (1 PM)
18.4% of all my impressions - January 31, 2011 (2 PM)
24.1% of all my impressions - January 31, 2011 (6 PM)
25.7% of all my impressions - January 31, 2011 (8 PM)
26.5% of all my impressions - January 31, 2011 (10 PM)
36.7% of all my impressions - February 1, 2011 - Normal
38.5% of all my impressions - February 2, 2011 - Normal
37.9% of all my impressions - February 3, 2011 - Normal
39.2% of all my impressions - February 4, 2011 - Normal
38.0% of all my impressions - February 5, 2011 - Normal
37.3% of all my impressions - February 6, 2011 - Normal
39.4% of all my impressions - February 7, 2011 - Normal
39.4% of all my impressions - February 8, 2011 - Normal
31.6% of all my impressions - February 9, 2011 - Normal for 9 days
17.3% of all my impressions - February 10, 2011 - PAGE DROPPED FROM INDEX
14.4% of all my impressions - February 11, 2011
15.4% of all my impressions - February 12, 2011 (7 AM)
24.0% of all my impressions - February 12, 2011 (9 PM) FIXED
. . .
40.0% of all my impressions - February 24, 2011 (9 PM) STILL FIXED - Yeah!

Was this caused by the content thief? Was this caused by the new Google algo?
STILL #1 on Bing and Yahoo.

** This small data reversal corresponds with concurrent online reports of MY ORIGINAL PAGE RECOVERY to the #1 position in the SERPs. I don't see it yet, but others do.
*** Whoops, false alarm - still holding steady at the bottom. No fix yet. I believe that most of these impressions are from Bing and Yahoo, where I STILL rank #1 for the search.

When Google fixed this, I saw an immediate improvement, as shown above.

Has the content ownership issue simply not been addressed adequately? I don't think it has. This data point should help contribute toward a fix.

I am reminded of the Seinfeld rental car episode -
"You know how to TAKE the reservation, you just don't know how to HOLD the reservation.
And that's really the most important part of the reservation - the holding. Anybody can just take 'em."
Google knows (knew) how to ESTABLISH the canon, but they don't know how to HOLD the canon. And that's really the most important part of the canon - the holding.

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Jane at Google helped me out back in June 2008, with the theft of my MAIN BLOOD PRESSURE GRAPHIC, by several entities. I will now continue to document that incident here, over the next several days. This large graphic is arguably the most important part of the HTML page.

February 1, 2011
My ORIGINAL MAIN GRAPHIC is STILL being displayed by Google Image Search, by various offenders -
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Blood+Pressure+Chart

1. Thief #1 -
doddsfamilyfoundation.org (page 1 in image results)
If you click on the image, you are redirected to a blank page.

2. Thief #2 -
health-heart.net (page 3 in image results)

3. Thief #3 -
life.digitss.com (page 4 in image results)

4. Thief #4 -
fithealthyliving.com (page 4 in iamge results)

5. Thief #5 -
holistichealthhouston.com (page 4 in image results)

6. Thief #6 -
rajee.sulekha.com (page 5 in image results)

7. Thief #7 -
seanbanville.com (page 5 in image results)

8. Thief #8 -
wellsphere.com (page 6 in image results)

9. Thief #9 -
itsselvam.blogspot.com (page 6 in image results)

10. Thief #10 -
mylot.com (page 7 in image results)

11. Thief #11 -
funnrock.com (page 7 in image results)

12. Thief #12 -
desidieter.com (page 7 in image results)

13. Thief #13 -
fithealthyliving.com (page 8 in image results)

14. Thief #14 -
waystolowerbloodpressurefast.blogspot.com (page 11 in image results)


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ANYBODY GOT ANY IDEAS? What would YOU do?

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