Someone copying my Wordpress site and stealing my traffic. how can I stop it?

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Guys I need your help. I have a wordpress website (mydomain.tld) and someone made copy of this website (theif.tld). Whenever I post some new content to my site, it will automatically appeared and posted to his site too.. is it hotlinking?

I tried this with the .htacces file

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|zip|rar|mp3|flv|swf|xml|php|png|css|pdf)$ - [F]

But it not stopping him. I'm using Nginx in front end and Apache in backend in the server.
I can't go for DMCA as some part of my website included pirated contents.

Any Help? How can I stop him..
 
Did you try to stop publishing RSS?
 
You can try to put a link to your site in the beginning of every article that you publish. Something like "this article was originally published on yourdomain.tld and link from it to your original content. You can use CSS to make visible but less noticeable, but if they copy your content the link shows in full and will point to your site.

To your former question, no, izt is not hotlinking. Hotlinking refers to a practice when you link from your site to a media file (typically image) hosted on another site. Then each time when someone visits your site, it will make a request to the other site to provide the image, which creates an unusable "traffic" to that site.
 
embed watermarks and URL's pointing to your site for a while, hidden, And then report the site to his host, and google with the proof from the watermarks and URL placements. Hiding things in images also works.
 
RSS feeds, take it off.

I disabled RSS Feeds and tried.. No way.. He can still publish my new articles in his site within few seconds...
You can try to put a link to your site in the beginning of every article that you publish. Something like "this article was originally published on yourdomain.tld and link from it to your original content. You can use CSS to make visible but less noticeable, but if they copy your content the link shows in full and will point to your site.

To your former question, no, izt is not hotlinking. Hotlinking refers to a practice when you link from your site to a media file (typically image) hosted on another site. Then each time when someone visits your site, it will make a request to the other site to provide the image, which creates an unusable "traffic" to that site.
Image watermark will work. But my domain link he can change it to his domain url.. he is stripping my url (mydomain.com/post.html to hisdomain/post.html). Cant understand what technique he is using for this..
 
Guys I need your help. I have a wordpress website (mydomain.tld) and someone made copy of this website (theif.tld). Whenever I post some new content to my site, it will automatically appeared and posted to his site too.. is it hotlinking?

I tried this with the .htacces file

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|zip|rar|mp3|flv|swf|xml|php|png|css|pdf)$ - [F]

But it not stopping him. I'm using Nginx in front end and Apache in backend in the server.
I can't go for DMCA as some part of my website included pirated contents.

Any Help? How can I stop him..
maybe it is the guy who you have stole your content from?
 
He is copying your site in real time using simple php script

He can also replace some of your links, images, for his own, manually or automatic by given parameters, so he can monetize

This is basic, he outrank you using specific method and that's it. No 3rd party will help you solve this quick enough.


To stop this you must prevent your website being copied in real time. Means disabling site iframing, embedding, google it.

Try this : https://pastebin.com/Sfc3US6M

can't post these codes at BHW blah
 
Let me tell you 2 methods:

1: insert your links here and there, if you see the links also appear, that means he is using a bot to crawl your site, so keep doing this, since it will give you links.

2: Google a tool named: character change UTF to unicode, I forgot the name but you can find it. After this, put your new articles change it to another charset, your articles will looks normal now, but in reality, its completely nonsense, he will copy your nonsense to him site, then you switch your article to normal English charset article.

3: you can leave some traces like " hey google, please see this fucker now is copying my website, my website is mywebsite.com" , and if he uses a bot, he will also copy this sentence, then DMCA it.

Once there was a plugin to do this, but I forgot the name, seems unpopular one.
 
He is copying your site in real time using simple php script

He can also replace some of your links, images, for his own, manually or automatic by given parameters, so he can monetize

This is basic, he outrank you using specific method and that's it. No 3rd party will help you solve this quick enough.


To stop this you must prevent your website being copied in real time. Means disabling site iframing, embedding, google it.

Try this : https://pastebin.com/Sfc3US6M

can't post these codes at BHW blah
by which method he is doing it ??
 
He is copying your site in real time using simple php script

He can also replace some of your links, images, for his own, manually or automatic by given parameters, so he can monetize

This is basic, he outrank you using specific method and that's it. No 3rd party will help you solve this quick enough.


To stop this you must prevent your website being copied in real time. Means disabling site iframing, embedding, google it.

Try this : https://pastebin.com/Sfc3US6M

can't post these codes at BHW blah

Yes.. He is using some script for the real time copying. I'm very sure about it.

Thanks for your code and I tried it with .htaccess. But he is copying my new posts. I think as, I'm using Nginx should something do with ngnix directives instead of .htaccess.
Google DMCA request https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-dashboard
Ive done it before. If accepted, they can deindex the whole offending domain.
I can't go with DMCA as I'm using some pirated contents in my site.
Create few pages block all traffic on those and just whitelist his IP and start posting hardcore adult stuff :)
I'm not able to trace his IP. He may be using some proxies.
 
I'm not able to trace his IP. He may be using some proxies.

Even simpler solution, just whitelist his domain name, and block all traffic... easy peasy lemonAcid :)
 
Yes.. He is using some script for the real time copying. I'm very sure about it.

Thanks for your code and I tried it with .htaccess. But he is copying my new posts. I think as, I'm using Nginx should something do with ngnix directives instead of .htaccess.

I can't go with DMCA as I'm using some pirated contents in my site.

I'm not able to trace his IP. He may be using some proxies.
.htaccess rules are pointless on an nginx server. You aren't looking in detail. 99% of bots leave footprints.
 
keep on mind I am not an expert.
here is what you can do from what I have understood about your situation, if he copies everything you have in your website using some sort of a bot that scraps all your html then you have two options:
1. using java script inside your website that force the page to redirect to your website if the current website is not
mydomain.tld
and to make sure he doesn't replace it automatically make sure you write your domain name divided into multiple variables and than re united in a new one that you will be using to redirect the page to it.

2. You can use a replace text plugin and whenever you have a "," you wanted to replace it with "<div class=trashcontent><p> trash bla bla trash...for 4 line or more of trash content</p></div>," and then go to your main css code and write this : .trashcontent{ display:none}.

please tell u if one this solutions have worked for you, or at least If you have found out about the method he is using to steal your content so we can find the perfect solution.
Best of luck!
 
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