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Vallabh Kulkarni
from Pune |

I've a photoshop tutorial blog and I'm facing the problem of indexing my blog posts due to copyrighted material(images) on my blog..

I've 50 posts and from that in 25 tutorials I've used images from google.. before this I've get 20-30 visits from google.. but I'll get 0 visits.

Is there any way to indexing? OR I have to remove that 25 posts????

I'll search on google and get the addresses of the websites which provides free images used on blogs.. But what about my 25 posts? what should I do?

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Aditya Dey
from Kolkata |

What blogging platform are you using?? you may  remove those pics, and add non-copyrighted relevant images to that posts....then try to fetc it all via GWT....

Vallabh Kulkarni
from Pune |

I'm using blogger.. i am using 25 images from blogger.. how come I know that which images are copy righted? is there is a trick to find copyrighted image from my blog? because removing 25 images/posts its not good for me..

Harsh Agrawal
from New Delhi |

@Vallabh

Copyright image owner usually use Reverse image search to find copied images.. But such cases happens very rearely..and even if it happens...that owner reported your blog post for copyright issues, you will get a notification for the same...

You can also search in Google with site:domain.com to check if Google have removed any such posts from your blog coz of DMCA compaints..

Vallabh Kulkarni
from Pune |

Thank you harsh for replying..

I didnt got any notification. and as you said, no posts are indexing from my blog.. I've 51 posts and 0 posts are indexing.. I didnt understand what is the issue.. and if there, how come I know that which photo is copyrighted among 25 posts?

Purnendu
from Pune |

Whenever you take a photograph from Google Search, go to Advance Search > Filter and take only the ones which are free to share. Also, make sure you give a reference to the original owners somewhere in the post. This will help a lot getting your reputation with Google up. 

Vallabh Kulkarni
from Pune |

Thank you purnendu for this info.. but what should I do with that 25 posts? I've to either change it OR remove it?

Purnendu
from Pune |

I suggest that you change the photographs. Someone might have complained about copyright violation

Vishal Verma
from Bangalore | 
I guess your site is penalized by Google....Or you need to make some quality backlinks
two things you can do 
1. follow google Webmaster Guidelines( remove copyright materials.)
2. apply for Google reconsideration request.


If above does not help migrate to wordpress or any other blogging platform with custom domain...