I ran across a competitor’s website that is using two machine names (one of which is the URL of my website) in front of their URL and submitting to search engines. Same info, however the layout is a bit different. Both websites have been picked up by search engines, one of which can be confused as being associated with my website. If this is legal with search engines, then it could get very confusing with a website using the name of their competitor’s website in front of their URL. For example…I could start a website named “searchengine.home.webproworld.com” and “search.home.webproworld.com” and submit to search engines. Has anyone run across this before? Is this a common
SEO technique? Or…is this a search engine violation that can be reported. Any insight would be appreciated as to how to approach this situation.