Hijacked site and then cloaking
- Thread starter GIBBY
- Start date
Thanks.
We've tried the DMCA route but as the hijacked sites are only creating and serving the copied pages when the site is crawled, there isn't actually any copied pages stored on the server, so the DMCA is denied.
The hijacked sites are copying the cannonical tags as well, so somewhere Google is managing to get confused on the original owner of the site and we are definitely losing rankings.
No idea what else we can really do. Any ideas?
We've tried the DMCA route but as the hijacked sites are only creating and serving the copied pages when the site is crawled, there isn't actually any copied pages stored on the server, so the DMCA is denied.
The hijacked sites are copying the cannonical tags as well, so somewhere Google is managing to get confused on the original owner of the site and we are definitely losing rankings.
No idea what else we can really do. Any ideas?
Sam Green
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- Dec 15, 2016
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was your plan for the scaper to copy the cannonical tag pointing back to the original site? Cause apparently the cannocical tag cant be cross domain (https://moz.com/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps)
Moz said:
lion1978
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- Apr 22, 2014
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Yes that is the plan, I wouldn't trust that article to much, if you look at it's timestamp it is from February 13th, 2009, and a lot has changed since then at least acording to google canonical tags is also cross domains https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en
Daniel from Linxact
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- Nov 3, 2016
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Do you really think autoscraping tools can't replace html code?
Sam Green
Junior Member
- Dec 15, 2016
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meh.. it was worth a shot. I had no idea about canonical tags until this post... maybe the programmer didnt know either.
Daniel from Linxact
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That's true but unlikely imo. People who use autoscraping tools are scaling their game up. They prepare.
Thanks your right.Is there anyway to stop the autoscraping?
lion1978
Junior Member
- Apr 22, 2014
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No offcourse html code can be replaced, but a lot of scrapers aren't doing it, either becouse they don't know how to or are too lazy.
You can try this
Code:
<script type='text/javascript'>
var isCtrl = false;
document.onkeyup=function(e)
{
if(e.which == 17)
isCtrl=false;
}
document.onkeydown=function(e)
{
if(e.which == 123)
isCtrl=true;
if (((e.which == 85) || (e.which == 65) || (e.which == 88) || (e.which == 67) || (e.which == 86) || (e.which == 2) || (e.which == 3) || (e.which == 123) || (e.which == 83)) && isCtrl == true)
{
alert('This is Function Disabled');
return false;
}
}
// right click code
var isNS = (navigator.appName == "Netscape") ? 1 : 0;
if(navigator.appName == "Netscape") document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN||Event.MOUSEUP);
function mischandler(){
alert('This is Function Disabled');
return false;
}
function mousehandler(e){
var myevent = (isNS) ? e : event;
var eventbutton = (isNS) ? myevent.which : myevent.button;
if((eventbutton==2)||(eventbutton==3)) return false;
}
document.oncontextmenu = mischandler;
document.onmousedown = mousehandler;
document.onmouseup = mousehandler;
//select content code disable alok goyal
function killCopy(e){
return false
}
function reEnable(){
return true
}
document.onselectstart=new Function ("return false")
if (window.sidebar){
document.onmousedown=killCopy
document.onclick=reEnable
}
</script>