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caryl - 3:50 pm on Nov 30, 2006 (gmt 0)


On 11/13/2006 I found a site that was scraping mine . Not only that but they were pulling my pages into frames on their site and stealing my bandwidth as well!

I was able to determine that they had started doing this way back in April. Just prior to my site's falling into this "plague". Coincidense? Maybe - Maybe not...

I emailed the webmaster and ordered them to cease and desist immediately. He complied and said to "let him know if I found anymore pages of mine on his site". I replied with - "You search your database for ALL referrence to my site and REMOVE it ALL. If I find one more incidence of your site in my referere logs, the next notifying I will be doing is to report you to the search engines for content theft!

Perhaps it was THAT incident that elicited my "penalty" from Google? Perhaps now that he has removed my site from his (He was doing the same to countless other sites) mine will resurface?

What I find most disturbing is that it seems that now days there are a plethora of ways to quite easily sabatage a competitor, if you were so inclined - no?


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