Need Help URGENTLY [Cloned Website by bots taking my ranking]

[jami123]

Hi Guys,

I have this website like 2 years ago and just recently a clone website of mine has emerged, whatever I post in that exact moment, it is posted in that clone website, I do change daily my homepage such as to domain.com/homepage23, however this clone website is doing the same and what is weird is that my homepage23 for example, google is turning the canonical toward that clone website, so whatever I do, my homepage get de-indexed, and that clone website gets indexed and gets my rank.

is there a way I can block that clone website (I tried through DMCA) but is not helping,
is there a solution for this so my website gets indexed since it is original?

I'd appreciate any help truly!
Thanks!

 

[Zooker]

Put "This content is stolen from xyz.com and if you see this it's proof I am stealing it" and then DMCA to their host?

 

[jami123]

Put "This content is stolen from xyz.com and if you see this it's proof I am stealing it" and then DMCA to their host?

Zooker I tried that, no action is taken unfortunately, and I'm losing my mind over this...

 

[Zooker]

How are they handling your internal links? Are they linking to you or do they strip them?

 

[Zooker]

Where is their site hosted… in the US or overseas or hidden behind like cloudflare?

 

[Zooker]

Zooker I tried that, no action is taken unfortunately, and I'm losing my mind over this...

Actually if they copy that “i took the content from…” somewhere in the middle, you can send the dmca to google to delist them too.

 

[Ashk881]

Send a DMCA notice to google for copyrighted content here https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905?hl=en

 

[Ashk881]

PS : if you could like to pay for a turn-key solution and let someone handle the filing and paperwork handled for you, dmca.com offers a paid service.

https://www.dmca.com/Takedowns.aspx

 

[Grudge]

Put a piece of JS that checks the domain. If the domain doesn't match then redirect to your site.

 

[Setox]

Zooker I tried that, no action is taken unfortunately, and I'm losing my mind over this...

What do you mean by no action, what response did you got from the host ?

 

[Zakch93]

Send a DMCA notice to google for copyrighted content here https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905?hl=en

But how will he prove he owned the content first? Sometimes cached pages of past dates do not show.

And OP if you put internal links to your own pages, are they copying them too and linking to your site? If so that would be beneficial for you.

 

[Ashk881]

But how will he prove he owned the content first? Sometimes cached pages of past dates do not show.

They don't have to. All they do is describe in detail what content (i.e their copyrighted work) is being copied and who is infringing them. Google has internal tools to verify the first crawl dates for the content on both sites to check which one came first.

And usually, they don't even have to resort to that sort of verification. Most clone bot sites are quite easy to spot since they copy everything.

 

[jami123]

Put a piece of JS that checks the domain. If the domain doesn't match then redirect to your site.

The website is getting only my HTML (along with CSS) and text, I don't see any Javascript on their side, they're stripping it off I think, not getting any JS from my side,

if I put JS like you mentioned will it work in this case for me?

 

[jami123]

How are they handling your internal links? Are they linking to you or do they strip them?

They strip them (using their domain instead), and the hosting is based in Netherland, I blocked their multiple host, they keep coming back unfortunately

 

[MrWhite2018]

This happened to BHW years ago I seem to remember

 

[Zooker]

They strip them (using their domain instead), and the hosting is based in Netherland, I blocked their multiple host, they keep coming back unfortunately

Yea, I was expecting blocking would be difficult as proxies make it easy to side-step blocks like this. That is, unless they choose only connections from a given country in which you could block the entire block in the firewall.

 

[Grudge]

The website is getting only my HTML (along with CSS) and text, I don't see any Javascript on their side, they're stripping it off I think, not getting any JS from my side,

if I put JS like you mentioned will it work in this case for me?

You can include js not only in script tags. You can do it in img onerror, in css and in a ton of other places. Google them and test it out

 

[blogmen]

If your site is WP, disable the feed.

If that doesn't work then don't put new articles on the homepage anymore.

This should stop them. Also, submit post to GSC as soon as you publish so it indexes before they do.

 

[praetserge]

Google and bing will de-index the clone site if you submit DMCA.

 

[dlyhai]

It is very bad thing, change domain?