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Originally Posted by trevesty
Did these sites rank for your brand and/or scene titles or something? Maybe even out rank you? If so, then that increase makes total sense. Either way, congrats.  |
Not sure if I understand you exactly, but as an example....
Name of our site could be googled with a request for "free" or fucking "user uploaded" content. Of course our site does NOT have free content, so most of the pirates shown up instead. Many where phony ( looking for clicks and full of cul-de-sacs and other shit), but if the person was persistent enough, they found a "click and play" tube or some file sharing site.
Since we have a VOD site, so searching for a single title, with " free" prefix also caused that the title ( usually in the same sites) also shown up.
Now, if you search, in most cases you still get the same response, BUT once you get to the link, you will get 404 error, or "file not found" or "content removed due to copyright claim" etc... Also you get Google pages stating to go see Lumen since copyright claim was received and approved by Google. Some sites we also completely "killed", usually US based hosts.
It is too early for me to make an exact assessment, but majority of our easily searchable content is gone and only a few " Moldovan" or "Asian" sites full of crappy adds and viruses are left. I hope this good trend will continue.