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A fake copyright notice can pull a casino money page out of Google in hours, and Google often will not tell you. Ivana Flynn, co-founder of DMCABoss, has filed counter notices on close to a thousand URLs and explains her recovery playbook on the Where Is My Money podcast from Peaky Ads.
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Flynn says Google takes pages down without checking the claim, and does not always tell the site owner, so she checks for DMCA first when a client's traffic vanishes (6:36, 6:55, 11:02).
Notices are sloppy: she sees claims that a URL was stolen from the same domain (10:41, 10:55).
Google's stated recovery time is 10 to 14 days, she says, but the long queue now takes 3 months plus, while the short queue takes 12 to 24 hours (12:33, 12:41, 12:45).
Repeat attacks hit a wall: Google tells you not to resubmit previously submitted URLs, and she will not share her workaround publicly (14:44, 15:43, 16:15).
A claim on Lumen does not mean Google acted on it, so she checks with site: searches, files counter notices one by one in four or five short lines, and says bulk filing, capped at 100, goes to the long queue (26:16, 26:59, 27:19, 29:06).
She advises against redirecting a hit URL, since the attacker will find the new one (47:15, 47:19).
Episode from Where Is My Money, the Peaky Ads podcast, published on YouTube.
