How to stop a site that's copying my site

[shege]

Hello guys, there are a couple of sites that's copying my site word for word including my site logo, site design, content, they even has similar ad format to my site and all others. they even get indexed in my search console. Everytime my site is updated these sites are also updated immediately
they are basically my site on another domain
My traffic has been tanking, everytime i add a new post i no longer get the usual ranking.
I have spent about 2 years of my life on this site and someone somewhere is trying to ruin it...
Please i need your help guys because i have tried everything i even wrote to google on dmca but got no reply and i believe thats because of the niche of my site

 

[JoachimvR]

If you are using Wordpress make sure to turn off the syndication of your feed:

And also install this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-feeds/.

I think that's most likely what is happening on your site. If not, your site might be hacked.

 

[AngelSeo]

Anyone with idea how to stop people from easily scraping and coping the whole HTML sites? Some of ours got replicated entirely.. ffs.

 

[shege]

If you are using Wordpress make sure to turn off the syndication of your feed:

And also install this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-feeds/.

I think that's most likely what is happening on your site. If not, your site might be hacked.

i already have the plugin installed before writing this post but i didnt set syndication of feeds to 1, so i will do that now and post a comment here

 

[nvsieu]

send a DMCA notice to the domain registrar

 

[shege]

i already have the plugin installed before writing this post but i didnt set syndication of feeds to 1, so i will do that now and post a comment here

his site still got updated

 

[nandrase]

Make their life a little bit harder by adding copyright notice to copied text, without checks it would link directly to your site as source(as others covered feeds maybe they are copying it manually). Also, you can also add "text copy tracking" to Tag Manager, allowing you to monitor interactions with text and see it in GA event labels (how useful will that be depends on country of visit, does it require to anonymize IP so you could block them).

 

[Hawkster]

If you’ve posted online and it’s truly yours, then it’s officially yours. All genuine content published online is immediately protected under copyright thanks to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

What it means is that anyone who takes your content and pastes it on their own site without permission violates copyright law. If someone takes an image from your blog and posts it on their own blog, that’s copyright violation.

Use https://www.whoishostingthis.com/ and find the host of the websites

Contact those hosts and make it clear that they have stolen your content which is wholly yours and you want them to take it down.

EDIT: You say you think google didn't reply because of the niche? Whats the niche? Sounds as though it might be illegal?

 

[Brickbat1]

Well, if you do not have a big budget to fight this, I guess there is little you can do to them in the end, particularly if they are behind the iron curtain.

 

[shege]

Make their life a little bit harder by adding copyright notice to copied text, without checks it would link directly to your site as source(as others covered feeds maybe they are copying it manually). Also, you can also add "text copy tracking" to Tag Manager, allowing you to monitor interactions with text and see it in GA event labels (how useful will that be depends on country of visit, does it require to anonymize IP so you could block them).

i once trired to add a dmca in the content but the link to my site was replaced automatically and with the speed at which my site is being copied it definitely cant be done manually. No matter what or when i make changes or add a new post to my site it gets replicated in seconds and that cant be done manually

 

[shege]

i looked up the domain registrar and this https://www.dnspod.cn/ is what i got. Its a company from china

 

[Brickbat1]

i looked up the domain registrar and this https://www.dnspod.cn/ is what i got. Its a company from china

Then I guess your only hope is to get google to de-index them...and even if they do, all the guys have to do is create another site...and the whack -a mole cycle continues.

 

[shege]

If you’ve posted online and it’s truly yours, then it’s officially yours. All genuine content published online is immediately protected under copyright thanks to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

What it means is that anyone who takes your content and pastes it on their own site without permission violates copyright law. If someone takes an image from your blog and posts it on their own blog, that’s copyright violation.

Use https://www.whoishostingthis.com/ and find the host of the websites

Contact those hosts and make it clear that they have stolen your content which is wholly yours and you want them to take it down.

EDIT: You say you think google didn't reply because of the niche? Whats the niche? Sounds as though it might be illegal?

Lets take a movie streaming site or a porn reupload site as an example do you think google will respond to dmca claim from such a site, the content on my site is not mine but i am not directly affecting anybody since my site is kind of similar to the above example though not in the same niche

 

[Meerakat]

Inject a hidden javascript in your content itself, if you are lucky enough; the scrapers will scrape the javascript code as well along with the content.

The javascript code can be a simple redirect, for example if the site does not match yours, then redirect.

 

[Hawkster]

Lets take a movie streaming site or a porn reupload site as an example do you think google will respond to dmca claim from such a site, the content on my site is not mine but i am not directly affecting anybody since my site is kind of similar to the above example though not in the same niche

I think i understand you. I have some experience in sports streaming websites although its not something i talk about on BHW and i keep it quite private. But what i will say is that a certain sport streaming website i know was copied totally, like everything so it looked like the same website to visitors, very similar domain names but instead of blackhatworld.com it would be black-hat-world.com and they took a considerable amount of traffic and even outranked the site they copied for many search terms. There really wasn't much that could be done.

It was back to the drawing board and a farm of new sports streaming sites built around a different brand name to directly take on the clones, they effectively became the competition. Eventually they began to go away. The new sites had code that prevent the taking of streams n stuff so the clones were left useless. This was a few years ago now.

Its difficult buddy.

Inject a hidden javascript in your content itself, if you are lucky enough; the scrapers will scrape the javascript code as well along with the content.

The javascript code can be a simple redirect, for example if the site does not match yours, then redirect.

This is an excellent idea that may work.

 

[Azmovies]

This is very easy to fix , we had the same issue way back

They are probably using some kind of imager that displays your website inside an iframe or something similar while changing some specific text or code to thiers
They are probably using your server resources as well

In this situation you need to impliment an anti bot check that will prevent unauthorized access to the website. Like rarbg when you first enter the threat defence

Add a code to your htaccess that will redirect the website to your main domain if they are on a different domain

Add code to prevent iframing your website

Add honepot to capture unauthorized scraping

You should be fine after this, these guys mostly mirror your website to gain some ranking in google and then sell that domain or use it for something else

 

[Gogol]

Anyone with idea how to stop people from easily scraping and coping the whole HTML sites? Some of ours got replicated entirely.. ffs.

Simplest way is to get your content load with ajax (with some csrf token of some kind). It will still be scrapable, but a bit harder since it will need a JS enabled bot. However, it can have very bad impact on your seo. Do consult an seo expert before you attempt this.

 

[Hasim Tercio]

Send them an email by saying that copying content from other websites is a criminal offence and the consequences can be severer.

 

[shege]

This is very easy to fix , we had the same issue way back

They are probably using some kind of imager that displays your website inside an iframe or something similar while changing some specific text or code to thiers
They are probably using your server resources as well

In this situation you need to impliment an anti bot check that will prevent unauthorized access to the website. Like rarbg when you first enter the threat defence

Add a code to your htaccess that will redirect the website to your main domain if they are on a different domain

Add code to prevent iframing your website

Add honepot to capture unauthorized scraping

You should be fine after this, these guys mostly mirror your website to gain some ranking in google and then sell that domain or use it for something else

I'm trying to implement your suggestion, the code i found online to prevent iframe actually broke my server and caused Internal Server Error on my server but after i removed it from .htaccess everything went back to normal

Header set X-FRAME-OPTIONS "deny"

i really dont know how to implement an anti bot, i will be happy if anyone can put me through

You also said i should add a code to redirect back to my domain i believe that should be hotlinking, but all my images have been saved on his server so he is not hotlinking them but serving them from his server.

I also tried to used honeypot to capture unauthorized scraping as you suggested i am not sure it worked, i followed the instructions given online and added some html code to a specific and it was replicated on the site in seconds as usual.

I dont know if anyone can help me find out why the prevent iframe code is breaking wordpress and causing internal server error
Thanks

 

[Gogol]

I'm trying to implement your suggestion, the code i found online to prevent iframe actually broke my server and caused Internal Server Error on my server but after i removed it from .htaccess everything went back to normal

Header set X-FRAME-OPTIONS "deny"

i really dont know how to implement an anti bot, i will be happy if anyone can put me through

You also said i should add a code to redirect back to my domain i believe that should be hotlinking, but all my images have been saved on his server so he is not hotlinking them but serving them from his server.

I also tried to used honeypot to capture unauthorized scraping as you suggested i am not sure it worked, i followed the instructions given online and added some html code to a specific and it was replicated on the site in seconds as usual.

I dont know if anyone can help me find out why the prevent iframe code is breaking wordpress and causing internal server error
Thanks

You don't probably have mod headers enabled. Google it.