DMCA Complaint to Google

[tutugirl]

I have several sites copying the content from my pages.  I filed numerous complaints with Google and checked under the DMCA dashboard and it's showing my requests are approved; however, still several days later the infringing pages still remain.

I'm a bit confused by this as I thought Google was supposed to remove the page.  I guess I'm not understand why it was "approved" when I don't see changes.

Am I supposed to contact the site's owner to get the pages down now?  I don't want to show duplicate content to my site.

Please help!

[KaneJamison]

Are they scraping your content in an automated fashion, like an RSS feed? Or is it more manual?

If it's an RSS feed - just install some links back to your site on every RSS post and you'll be fine.

If it's manual, you can always go the route of a DIY DMCA letter to start with. That usually gets the job done.

[tutugirl]

It was manual - mainly with my FAQ pages, sizing guide, etc.

I still have loads of duplicate with TERMS and CONDITIONS and PRIVACY POLICY.  Is this something to block in robots.txt?