What is a Takedown Notice?

What is a takedown notice anyways? That is a great question. Before I jump into it, I want to do a couple things. First, introduce myself. My name is Bjork. I'm on the right side there. My wife Lindsey's on the left. We run two sites, pinchofyum.com and foodbloggerpro.com I exist in real life as well, not just the image. Here I am, hello, I am operating in our office, which is actually just our basement. So I'm gonna hide myself so you don't see that pair of pants hanging up behind me in the laundry room. Alright, before we jump into it, I want to say one more thing. If you are interested in learning a little bit more about blogging, you can go to foodbloggerpro.com ebook and sign up to get on the blogging tips email list for Food Blogger Pro and we'll send you a free ebook. It's called 10 mistakes that bloggers make and how to fix them when you sign up. Let's talk a little bit about takedown notices. What is it anyways? Well, a takedown notice is when you, the blogger, send a notice to a company asking them to take down a certain piece of content. Now why would you ever do that? Well, let's talk about that. Here's an example. This was somebody that posted on the Food Blogger Pro forums and if you want to check out that thread you can go to fbpro co takedown notice. And she reported back to the forum and said someone has published a cookbook in Amazon and two of my recipes were literally copied and pasted in the cookbook. And I'm gonna switch over here to Chrome so you can see what that looks like. Here's the thread and I actually post an example of a takedown notice in the thread. But if you wanna go there and check it out, you'll see that the person that had this issue was actually able to get that ebook removed by sending a takedown notice to Amazon. So pretty cool. Here's another example. Pinch of Yum. Lindsay's food blog has had this Instagram account that has been copying pictures and using them. And this isn't necessarily negatively aff the blog, but it's just kind of annoying and it's something that we don't want to happen. So in this case what we do is we send a takedown notice to Instagram and ask for this account to be removed so they stop copying the pictures that Lindsay has created. So those are a couple examples. What do you do if you See that your content is being copied. Well, first you could send a nice note. And an example of why you'd want to do this is found in a blog post that you can get to by going to FBPro code food blog SEO. And if I go to that, the name of the blog post is a huge SEO tip that most food bloggers miss. Now the thing that's important about this is that instead of sending a takedown notice, you send a nice note and ask for that person to include a link back to your post. I'm not going to go into the details of why that's important, but check out that post to get a good idea of why it's important to send a note before sending a takedown notice. Alright, if that doesn't work, if you don't hear back from that person, if they don't add that link, then what you're going to want to do is you're going to want to send a takedown notice form to that person. And we recently published a post on Food Blogger Pro all about takedown notice forms and how to do those. There's two ways that you can do it with popular sites like social media sites or other blogging software sites. A lot of times they'll have a form that you can fill out. And if you go to this blog post down here, again it's FBPRO co takedown forms. You'll see a list of all those different forms and a quick link to those. So you can easily fill those out and have the content removed. And if it's not a social media site, what you can do is you can draft your own takedown notice. Now this is going to have to be specific in terms of the content that you provide in that takedown notice, but you can use something like a DMCA generator to produce that content for you. We're not going to go into the details of how you do that in this video, but again, you can check out that post and I'm going to switch over here so you can see it. You can check out the post definitive list of takedown notice forms. And you can get there by going to. I'm going to go back one here to take down notice forms. This URL here, FBRO co takedownnoticeforms that will bring you to this list and it will have all of this information about how to follow up and do a takedown request. And the one that you're going to want to look for is the heading called General Websites. So if it's not a social media site or not a popular site like blogger, WordPress.com or Tumblr, you're going to want to look at the steps outlined here for sending a takedown notice form. 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