Somebody submitting site to Search Engines

[colintho]

Just had a bunch of "confirmation" emails from various search engines - somebody else is submitting one of my BEST / TOP sites to search engines (without permission or consent) using an email address for my site "twat@*****.com"

(This is the site that got "page jacked back in Dec 2002 and a rogue site "stole" my site design -+ google search positions for 4 weeks - had to initiate DMCA + tons of emails to Google to sort it out)

This looks malicious - what are the implications?

Can this rogue be found?

I fear that this is going to "hurt" my site - income again.

any help / advice please

[Susanne]

Sorry to hear about your problems. But I don't think you should worry about being listed in various places. You can only get hurt by the links that you place on your site to other sites.
The only thing I can think of is that IF the "rogue" has submitted to important places and maybe done it over and over again, then your site might not get listed at all there because of over submission. But if you already have links coming form the most important engines and directories on the web, then no worries. Just leave the rogue to waste his/her time...

[zoobie]

This is one of the oldest tricks in the book. Your competitor is resubmitting your site in the hopes you'll be penalized and knocked down a few pegs...or better yet, banned. All you can really do is contact Google or whoever.

[Mohamed_E]

With Google at least multiple submissions do no harm:

Fiction: A website will be removed from Google's index if it's 'over-submitted'.

Fact: We do not require submission nor do we penalize sites for 'over-submission'. You are free to submit as often as you wish. However, given the nature of our inclusion process, your time is better spent improving the content and links of your site.

From Google Facts & Fiction [google.com]

[Tony_Perry]

colin
sticky me your hosting details. are you with H******UK.net?

i discussed something like this with them recently!

Tony

[colintho]

Thanks for the replies - Mohamed_E thanks for the google referance - this is where 95% of my visitors / site income comes from.

My site has had very little change in almost 18 months - and has been very stable in the google search results, just was'nt sure what the effects would be - especially after being HIT in Dec 2002.