He's copied my entire site and getting my traffic from google

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He's copied my entire site and getting my traffic from google

Copied entire website and getting my traffic!

Healthguide

7:51 pm on Jul 27, 2010 (gmt 0)

Hi,

Yesterday I have found out that my entire site has been copied AND they're getting better rankings in google than some of MY pages!

What do I need to do to stop this person?

He has a sort of framework outside of my pages, but the pages are identical. He's even done the logo the same but with his domain!

I want to report them to a host but, I did a whois lookup on the domain, and ownership of the domain is concealed. I looked at the name servers to see who is hosting it, and the name servers are using the fatwat.com domain, so I can't tell where it's hosted.

I've reported it to Google via their spam form.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks
Healthyguide
By theway. great forum, just discovered it!

londrum

8:13 pm on Jul 27, 2010 (gmt 0)

has he actually copied your content, or is he just mirroring it.
ie, when you change the content on your site, does it update on his site as well?

if its the second one then you might be lucky because it might just be a proxy which you can block

but when you say he "has a framework" outside your site, that sounds like it might just a simple frame. if thats the case then just stick some javascript in the head of your pages to break out of the frame

<script type="text/javascript">

if(parent.frames.length>0){top.location.replace(document.location);}

</script>

Healthguide

10:29 pm on Jul 27, 2010 (gmt 0)

Hi londrum,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

I just changed the homepage and so far his homepage has NOT changed, so I believe he has just copied every page word for word and placed them in a frame on his domain.
Each page on his site is in this format:

hisdomain.com/category/exact-name-of-each-my-pages.htm

Mine would be:

mydomain.com/exact-name-of-each-my-pages.htm

When on hid site all my links show up as the first example, so i get directed to another of my copied pages on his domain.

I will try this code on the homepage now to see if it works - will it take much time to take effect?

Thank you

Healthguide

10:42 pm on Jul 27, 2010 (gmt 0)

No, I just tried that code and so far it hasn't worked.

This is so frustrating as to how they can get away with this!

How the hell has he got Google to rank him over me, this is crazy!

Anyone got any ideas on what else I can try?

Thanks to any conributor.
W

LifeinAsia

10:45 pm on Jul 27, 2010 (gmt 0)

You can do an NS Lookup (at a command prompt, enter "nslookup hisdomain.com" without the quotes- the first set should be the IP address of your DNS server, and the second one should be the IP address of the domain) to find the IP address where the site is being hosted. Then you can lookup that IP address. If it's a hosting company, you may be able to contact them about getting the site taken down (but if it's outside the U.S., probably not much luck).

vivalasvegas

7:22 am on Jul 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

If it's a hosting company, you may be able to contact them about getting the site taken down (but if it's outside the U.S., probably not much luck).

It's also possible to contact his registrar and ask that his site be taken down. I've done this before.

incrediBILL

7:35 am on Jul 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

Using the DMCA you can take the site down in all the major search engines regardless of where it's hosted.

A running site with no traffic is useless.

martinibuster

7:41 am on Jul 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

I want to report them to a host but, I did a whois lookup on the domain, and ownership of the domain is concealed.

You may still be able to report them to their registrar. Even a privacy shielded site still has an email addy to the person who registgered the domain. The domain name registrar is public record.

I would advise you try a different whois lookup if you cannot see who the web host is. Web host information is public, including the IP the site is hosted on.

Domain name registrars and web hosts generally have dmca policies. Visit their sites and click around to find their policies and the exact email or physical address to send copyright/dmca complaints to.

[edited by: martinibuster at 7:43 am (utc) on Jul 28, 2010]

incrediBILL

7:42 am on Jul 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

The web host is easily found using traceroute, host, dig, several simple command line tools will find what you need.

Healthguide

12:15 pm on Jul 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

Thanks to all those who responded. It is much appreciated.

I will look into contacting the host today.

The thing I noticed about his domain is it still shows my pagerank on the browser's toolbar. It's like his frame is accessing my page. Surely this means he couldn't of copied all my pages, but rather has a script so he can access mine.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Again thank you all

W