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Whoever wants to say, "I told you so"... go ahead...
Also, was the link solicitation one of those generic "send to a million sites" types of letters? How did you discover it?
Have you checked whois [whois.net] for a contact number. I would personally ring them and embarrass the hell out of the owner by asking why he/she feels they need to steal your content, buy a miss spelling of your domain and the audacity to ask for a link. We know why they do it but maybe a call would make the owner feel really embarrassed and pull the site down.
Geez have these guys got any thing up top? Maybe these scraper scum have scraped everything out of their heads thats decent and respectable.
Good Luck ;-)
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Sorry to hear about the theft. I hope you shut 'em down.
It looked like form mail(link exchange request), probably sent out to thousands(or millions). I found it looking through an old email addy of mine. I already know that email addy has been sold several times over, that's why I had to change it.
Spam galore.
They copied my font and old intro sentence(I recently changed it). Then they copied my category link titles and used some sort of program to generate similiar sub-topics for each...
You can tell the site is "generated", so I'm thinking it will just go away on it's own.
So far, when I checked Google, they have no inbound links. I'm thinking that I'll just watch them and see if any IB's appear. If so, I'll then take the time to report. I've saved a copy of their current site for my records.
Lacey, I wouldn't wait. Each time I've had to deal with this issue (contacting a hosting service, calling a site operator on the phone, sending an email), the other parties seemed a little stunned, or at least surprised, that they had been rooted out. And each time I've wondered to myself "if I hadn't confronted them, would they have simply stolen more?"
Have you determined what country they are from or done a whois to see who their registar or hosting service is?
US company. Illinois. A marketing company. They have the same web host I use, can you believe the nerve? I'll email my host and they should take care of it. Thanks for the advice.
He says, "oh, you have suchandsuch.com" and I said, "yes, THE suchandsuch.com." Then I gave him a quick list of everything he copied(basically the entire site) that was an infringement and told him he had 24 hours to remove the site. "Thank you for your time, good bye."
I'll let you know what happens.
If they perp has the same host ISP as your site, that's a plus.
G might derate/delist a site, but your/his host can take it down entirely. -Larry
"oh, you have suchandsuch.com" and I said, "yes, THE suchandsuch.com."
ROFLMAO - people are SOOOOO stupid.
It was like the nutjob that copied my site, not the content actually, the business model and all my support pages like "about us", "advertise with us" and those sorts of pages. He was cloning my site into a bunch of other markets and even using my custom made icons and graphics on his pages.
Here's the kicker - he had ADVERTISED directly on my site before. Not only did he like what he got advertising, he musta seen GOLD om them web pages of mine and started a chain of his own.
All those sites are gone, kaput, defunct, dead.
Hope you get the same results.
Here's the kicker - he had ADVERTISED directly on my site before. Not only did he like what he got advertising, he musta seen GOLD om them web pages of mine and started a chain of his own.
I've had that happen a couple of times. Makes my blood pressure rise every time I see it happen.
Glad you were able to get the offenders shut down (since they weren't smart enough to at least change the graphics/text).
It seems there is no recourse for someone just blatently stealing the business model.
When checking to see if they were gone yet(wishful thinking), I noticed they also used one of my cgi scripts. Yeah, they copied the entire infrastructure, along with verbatim text.
I'm tempted to go ahead and contact my/their host even though I said 24 hours. They just registered the site about 3 weeks ago. Mine's been online since the late 90's. I don't think I'll have a problem getting them removed.
Again, thanks all for the advice. I just spent some bucks buying other mis-spellings my domain.
When we see stuff like this happen to our site, the hubby keeps his cool, like he shrugs if off. Me? I get mad and think "What nerve!"
Are you sure it isn't one of your relatives who now believe in your crazy scheme :)
i am interested to hear the result of the steps that you are taking.
I have been able to find their email and did let them know to take down the pages... however, as they in Holland (although the copied pages are in English) I have not heard back...
Every so often I do a google search under my name in "" (because as the author I also include my by-line on every article I write) and every time I find so many of my articles and images blatantly copied.
My last google search yielded 25 of my articles copied and 5 pages.... grrrrrrrr
Help how do I find these theives ISP... thanks
They changed their logo and actual title of the site so it didn't match mine, and re-worded the verbatim text.
Well, that's good enough I guess. I'll be watching them and their cheesy replica. At least now people won't be confused about where they are visiting if they happen across the site by mistake.
Sailor, you might be right.
ElvisFan, you already checked the whois and couldn't find any info? I'm not sure how to find actual ISP, but I'm sure there is a way.
Ann
Spaceylacey - totally unbelievable!
Ann
It probably has lost its novelty and it makes me feel ashamed to be associated with those scrapers that they are supporting now + when they start showing ads that were way off what my site is about (Make me feel like it is telling my visitor a joke about my site).
I emailed the owner with a please delete however... no answer.
I'm angry... and would like to email their ISP and notify them of the copyright infringement...
thanks,
Please can someone address my initial question.
You may want to start a new thread for your question in case it is getting overlooked.
