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Someone Is Duplicating My Site and Stealing My Traffic

Website Traffic Scammers

         

jspruel

4:41 pm on Jul 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hello Everyone, I have a problem. I have created a very successful niche website. While doing some keyword searches relevent to one of my products in the Yahoo search engine I stumbled across an organic link in the search. The link in question jump out at me because it possessed the exact same Title and Meta description as one of my popular pages but the url was different. I then clicked on the link and it was a duplicated page of my website being created as I looked. I did a few more searches and clicked on the same link again and something different happened. The same link redirected me to another website which was a " powerfindit" type search engine/sponsored link website. I stumbled onto the duplicate page by accident because now the page just redirect. I hurried and wrote down the forwarding link and the landing url. The scammers in question did not intend on the duplicate page to appear in the search but redirect only mistake on their part.I need to know who can I report this scamming activity to so these people can be banned from the search engines.

[edited by: jatar_k at 7:10 pm (utc) on July 8, 2006]
[edit reason] no specific terms thanks [/edit]

mack

11:22 pm on Jul 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Send a C+D to the sites involved and also their host. Sometimes this is the only way to get these people to listen.

Mack.

webdreamer

12:47 am on Jul 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I know how you feel, I had the same problem. The only thing that worked to my satisfaction is; I reported the website to Google since they were displaying (their) AS ads, and they were shut down in two days.

Good luck with everything, I hope justice is served one way or another.