Copying Meta Tags.and Domain - Almost

Spam site... (Urgent Advice Appreciated)

[merlin23]

Hi,

I have a site which is 8 months old now!

I was astonsished the other day when I was testing keyword searches on Yahoo. A site came up below mine (I was 1 and the other site was number 2)...

I investigated , and found that the meta tags in the site are exactly the same as mine - including content description and keyword tags...word for damn word!

It gets worse -

My domain is www.#*$!xxxxx.com
The other site is www.xxxx-xxxx.com

The other site is LOADED with keywords, that actually read as nonsense on 4 of the 6 pages the site has.

There is nothing useful in the site regarding the subject concerned.....and has one external email address as a contact address (for enquiries would you believe)....its a googlemail address too...

What can and should I do about this - (its not yet indexed in Google) The site was created in December and the who is information is private, except of course, the webhost is listed...

I am really concerned in addition to being peed off....any advice most welcome...

Thanks in advance...

[stapel]

Contact the web host, providing it with the DMCA take-down information (assuming you're lucky enough that the host is American; otherwise, you're probably out of luck).

Also, see about posting the loser to "pirated-sites.com". If he sees that most (or at least much) of his traffic is a bunch of people laughing at him, he may at least remove the obvious copies of your stuff.

And, of course, contact Yahoo about getting him out of their index.

Eliz.

[merlin23]

Thanks Eliz,

The webhost is in Ireland.

I have just written to Yahoo.....

I will have to research the notice and takedown procedures for web sites as I am not familiar with this...

Thanks again...

[stapel]

Poke around the server host's site. It may have a posted copyright policy and/or take-down procedure. If so, just follow that.

Eliz.

[merlin23]

Update on this - I dont quite know what happened to this site...but it appears to be currently suspended (smiley)

This is the message upon visiting domain URL:

¨This account has been suspended.
Either the domain has been overused, or the reseller ran out of resources.¨

Not to sure what this means exactly...

[stapel]

merlin23 said:

This is the message upon visiting [the plagiariser's] domain URL:

"This account has been suspended.
Either the domain has been overused, or the reseller ran out of resources."

Not to sure what this means exactly.

It is my understanding that this means that the account/site has used too much bandwidth ("domain has been overused") or something is running on the site that is choking the CPU ("ran out of resources").

There may be other interpretations; I welcome corrections and clarifications). This may also be the web host's default "this account is currently suspended" error message, so the message might not, strictly-speaking, apply if the account was suspended due to the copyright notification.

Eliz.

[merlin23]

Thanks Eliz...

I thinks its virtually impossible that its a bandwidth issue...it was static, 6 page HTML content....

Perhaps its your other suggestions!

kind regards...