Someone copied my site...

[nickoran]

Looking at the website, it doesn't look like they've even bothered to change anything at all. Even under 'Contact' they leave up your UK number and leave the e-mail contact alone. I'm scratching my head here trying to figure out a motive....any ideas on this one? It really doesn't look like they can actually capture any leads to me....

I really want to know this as well, from what i see it just looks like it can only benefit the site by giving links and directing to the company?
Obviously you dont want people copying yor content and site etc, but why would they waste the resources in doing so if it doesnt benefit them???

[Bernd]

>you should block HTTrack and other website copiers, as well as spambots per .htaccess.

Hey, how do you do that? Is there a site that shows you how to do this?

 RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (HTTrack|^$) [NC]
 RewriteRule !error - [L,F]

You can extend the list separated with "|".

[betterlanguages]

We've just found a new site ranking for a term that we rank number 1 for in Google. When I looked at the competitor's page they had copied all our page content, (apart from changing the business name to theirs, and another minor change). We have contacted their webmaster asking them to take it down (so far they haven't), and have reported them to Google for breach of copyright. Is there anything else we can do?

[deepsand]

You might also contact the host of the offending site.

Should none of the above yield satisfactory results, you'll need to at least consider taking legal action against the site's owner.

[williamc]

I had a similar problem with tim mathews who has stolen not only my content but content from all the major SEO authorities and then tried to make out he had written it. There is a previous thread on WPW about how he stole a whole site.The bad thing is he is listed on WebPro as a senior member!!!!!! He is a lying thief, with no ethics, no morals and yet gets senior member status. WTF? His other site is topseo. Should be topseothief

Couple things...

#1. Nikki is correct. I checked over timmatthews.com and pretty much everything there is plagiarized with no attribution and bearing Tim's name as author.

#2. Nikki: senior status just means he has been here a long time and made enough posts to qualify. It is not really 'awarded' to anyone manually.

#3. Can someone reverse the red rep I accidentally gave to nikki, it should have been green upon reflection.

#4. Nikki, please delete the 8 posts that are in threads that are not even close to related to this problem, it just adds unrelated crap in them and brings old threads to the top, which is annoying as heck.