Someone mirroring your site?

This is serious, i am definitely following this to see how the Op is able to solve the issues.
 
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Short answer is your VPS is not compromised or infected. This is called reverse proxy SEO method and its used to perform so called Black SEO on your website.
You need to add either hotlink protection so your website will work only on your domain or hire some developer to add some protection so your website will not work on other domains.

This is what my hosting provider had to say. I'll be doing some research into what exactly this is.
 
Or, you can apply for manual action on the mirror site while providing evidence that your website is the original.
 
Alok1688 said:
CHeck the very last comment on the post "Suggested to me by a colleague: “A better way to deal with reverse proxy sites… add a validation file in WMT and add yourself as an owner, then delist them”

Maybe this can help.
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Even if i add a validation file to webmaster tools they will get the file too it copies everything and delisting them how would that stop them from copying my site just from validating myself on webmaster tools?

JayDee1984 said:
Or, you can apply for manual action on the mirror site while providing evidence that your website is the original.
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It's a streaming site going through DMCA legal channels won't work
 
I can set up this kind of site mirroring. Done that. If you have suggestions how to use it to make some solid cash, let's make a JV. Contact me in PM.
 
qartish said:
I can set up this kind of site mirroring. Done that. If you have suggestions how to use it to make some solid cash, let's make a JV. Contact me in PM.
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I'm trying to stop this from happening to my site and you're trying to advertise it here? Unless you have some insight on how to deal with it please leave
 
Index Sites said:
Wasn't sure what section this goes in, but what are counter measures to someone completely mirroring your site? I think it's being mirrored but i'm not sure exactly what you would call it. If I post something they immediately have it If i change my sites code they immediately have the change if my website goes down there website goes down what the hell is that?
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Maybe some king of PHP script that is doing get_contents on your website and then altering just the template.
 
Index Sites said:
I'm trying to stop this from happening to my site and you're trying to advertise it here? Unless you have some insight on how to deal with it please leave
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It is actually very easy to stop. It should be fixed on the front end. Add this simple javascript to the <head> section:

<script>
document.write('<me'+'ta http-equiv="refr'+'esh" content="0; U'+'R'+'L'+=ht'+'tp'+'://ww'+'your'+'site.c'+'om/"/>');
</script>

Add some extra obfuscation if you want. The "Hacker" will need to fix this manually, what he most probably will not do.

P.S. In this script I forgot to add, that the redirect should occur only if the site domain is different from your domain. (location.href !== 'yoursite.com')
 
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LoganKopr said:
Maybe some king of PHP script that is doing get_contents on your website and then altering just the template.
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The template isn't altered at all everything is the same theme and all only thing different is the URL

RightFootFanatic said:
You could file an abuse at cloudflare.

Or you put a link to your page in your content area. If the link in the content stays and don't get stripped, let google pick up the backlink, then disavow in your search console.
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The site isn't a legal niche even if i file an abuse ticket with CloudFlare wouldn't it cause me more problems than it solves? As for the link idea that is pretty clever it doesn't get rid of the site... but maybe it could stop it from affecting my google rank. Then again if the people who are doing it pay any attention at all they may try and fix the link if that is even possible. *Edit* I tried to add a link to the content area and homepage and then clear the cache my domain name was automatically replaced with the copy sites url it seems that my url is automatically set to be replaced with it if i place it anywhere

Truly though thank you all for your input I've been letting it fly under the radar and trying to ignore it, but I believe the site being there is starting to cause me way more harm than good since it's really starting to affect things. From reading this article https://blog.sucuri.net/2015/09/analyzing-proxy-based-spam-networks.html it seems that the site is definitely a reverse proxy of my own content not any bot/crawler mirror site. From reading and talking to my hosting provider these are the only solutions I have found and believe could work i'll just have to hire an experienced web developer to implement it unless I want to spend more hours researching how to get it done myself.

1. Somehow configure your website to only work for your domain and block other domains from accessing it.

Simply no clue how to get this done so research will be needed.

2. Simply block the copy sites IP address ( You'll have to find the origin IP because I believe most of the sites in this situation will be running on a CloudFlare proxy)

Again simply no clue how to find the original IP of a site hiding behind a cloudflare dns/ip
 
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RightFootFanatic said:
pm me site that is bothering you, it'd like to have a look at it tonight.
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Sure I'll pm you now

I've brainstormed abit and instead of trying to find the origin IP address of the copy site i've been looking into instead using htaccess to simply block the domain name, so far the copy site has gone down, but it doesn't stay down oddly enough it's been going in and out down for awhile back up and down again.
 
qartish said:
It is actually very easy to stop. It should be fixed on the front end. Add this simple javascript to the <head> section:

<script>
document.write('<me'+'ta http-equiv="refr'+'esh" content="0; U'+'R'+'L'+=ht'+'tp'+'://ww'+'your'+'site.c'+'om/"/>');
</script>

Add some extra obfuscation if you want. The "Hacker" will need to fix this manually, what he most probably will not do.

P.S. In this script I forgot to add, that the redirect should occur only if the site domain is different from your domain. (location.href !== 'yoursite.com')
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I'll give this ago thank you
 
last year,i see this problem on one of my website.but i cant do anythink for it...before this problem,my website's traffic around 15k per day.but now,my traffic is lower than 400...on first days,i block some ip adresses and other web site down.but later,he/she use cdn and i cant block it after that.3 months later,other website closed.he/she open it again but its not mywebsite mirror after this day.i think,he/she kill my web site and attack the next one...
 
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} copydomain\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteRule .* - [F]

Adding the above to htaccess brings down the site, but i also lose access to my my wp-admin? How is that possible
 
Index Sites said:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} copydomain\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteRule .* - [F]

Adding the above to htaccess brings down the site, but i also lose access to my my wp-admin? How is that possible
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That's wrong to rely on {HTTP_REFERER}, which can be missing.
Just use the javascript solution. Serverside tricks won't work.
 
qartish said:
That's wrong to rely on {HTTP_REFERER}, which can be missing.
Just use the javascript solution. Serverside tricks won't work.
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If i'm getting this right
<script>
document.write('<me'+'ta http-equiv="refr'+'esh" content="0; U'+'R'+'L'+=ht'+'tp'+'://ww'+'your'+'site.c'+'om/"/>');
</script>

I add this to my header and if the website its ran on isn't my domain it'd do what refresh?
 
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