You followed all the rules according to the Google WebMaster Guidelines. You watched 40+ Matt Cutts videos to glean useful information to help you to rank higher and avoid violations. And after all that, you got beat by a scrapper site. Wow !! Well here is what you can do… report them to Google !! Simple… yes. And I can tell you from experience – they do listen when you report sites that are in violation. They sometimes will remove the offending site from the first page of results.

How do you…?

Submit A Spam Report to Google

1. Go into your Google Webmaster Tools account (create one if you do not already own one).
2. Follow this golden trail https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en
3. Submit the report and check this to verify they got it  https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/message-list

Here is a video from Matt Cutts – the Google Spam Boss – telling the public that they do indeed take the spam reports seriously. On top of that if the spam site is having a serious negative impact on quality rankings, it will be dealt with at a higher priority. I presume that the spam site in the annotated screen print below taking a #1 ranking for a hugely contested competitive phrase will get looked at soonish.

Who Can I call To Help ?

If Your Ranking Was Hurt By A Spammy Site, Web Design WorkPlace can help you. Please call the owner Mal at 201-696-5375. Or use our Google Voice line at 41-99-GLOBAL.