Website copied and Ranking dropped - What should I do?

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GVSET001

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Sep 26, 2012

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• Jun 17, 2014

• #1

Hi,

Someone copied my whole website and my ranking dropped from 3rd position to 5th page in Google.
After doing some research i found that his domain age is older than mine but my domain name has exact keyword with some suffix. My domain is 1 year old and his domain is 2 year old.

for further research I copied the first paragraph of my homepage content and pasted it on Google and i found that his website is appearing on first page in Google.

What should i do now? Should i change the content of my homepage?
Please suggest some tips to recover my ranking.

Thanks

 

Getwhatchuwant

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Jul 25, 2011

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• Jun 17, 2014

• #2

Well Google would know who posted the content first, perhaps you drop them a note and report the content thief.

 

Abstroose

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• Jun 17, 2014

• #3

It's unusual that your website would be penalised. Contact the website owner via a contact form, telephone number, whois info etc and demand that they remove the plagiarised content immediately or face legal action.

 

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GVSET001

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• Jun 17, 2014
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• #4

I already contacted them and they have removed the content but still no improvement in my ranking..

 

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SANTO007

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Sep 9, 2013

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• Jun 17, 2014

• #5

you have to wait some.in the mean while daily post a topic on your niche.this may increase ranking

 

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• Jun 17, 2014

• #6

That's bad man, we can't even create a website nowadays without it being copied by 100 other people. Wait for sometime and see if you rankings get back to normal.

 

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techwarndotcom

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Jun 7, 2014

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• Jun 17, 2014

• #7

wait a little. Your ranking will improve

 

fullyniche

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Dec 17, 2013

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• Jun 17, 2014

• #8

Contact web owner and request for content removal. That's better for you.

 

KHer0

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• Jun 17, 2014

• #9

If they removed their content and you are the only source of it, then you have nothing to worry about

 

SEOWhat

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• Jun 18, 2014

• #10

yup, as all said, first get in touch with website owner

 

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Morrow66

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• Jun 18, 2014

• #11

I really hope your ranking returns, I'd give it a week or so before getting worried if the content has been removed it should return to normal.