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Ethical use of 301's? You be the judge.

         

rodgersbestgen

1:33 am on Jun 18, 2014 (gmt 0)

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So this web design company takes over this fairly prominent medical site for design purposes. Without the clients knowledge or consent, created a new similar domain under their ownership that they intend for their own use. Designed the website on their servers and also at the clients dns control panel used a 301 redirect to redirect the clients site to their own site using masking. In addition they set up non existent email addresses for all the principals but directed all contacts and leads to themselves without clients knowledge? Thoughts? Do I have a reason to be disgusted by this. Was this a scheme to beef up their own new domain or plain stupidity? All traffic and ranking authority passed to their site. What should they do with the domain they created

tangor

3:09 am on Jun 18, 2014 (gmt 0)

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Well, Duh!

It isn't you who did this, right?

You have notified the original site that this has happened, right?

Reportorial questions are a pain, thus my questions. :)

Theft is theft.

rodgersbestgen

11:37 pm on Jun 19, 2014 (gmt 0)

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Yes I took over the website and fixed the problems and notified the client, people that did it still do not think they did anything wrong.

tangor

12:32 am on Jun 20, 2014 (gmt 0)

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In many ways the internet has destroyed ordinary moral principals world wide... it is a sad thing to see.

rodgersbestgen

2:03 am on Jun 24, 2014 (gmt 0)

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Isn't that the truth!