I am having a problem. I am running a site. which is coming in searches. Now I found a site has copied my whole site on a subdomain of his site. my site is available in subfolder of that subdomain. that duplicated site has started to coming in google search and for some keywords it is coming just below to my site. what ever changes i make starts to reflect on that duplicate site with in 5 min. I have written it to hosting company of that site. I want help of DP user what I can do in this matter. How these people are doing this and how I can stop it. Can anyone on DP help me out.
If I was you I'd take some screen shots, It's always good to have proof. There could be a number of different ways they're pulling your information in, its hard to tell. A good starting pont might be to look at their code. Mark
thanks ampg-it what should i look in to the code ot the pages. I have check them and it have complete copy of my site. site is running as it is running on my my domain only thing is person can not check out. It seems as if they are crawling my site and showing it on there site.
If you have access to your web server logs (IIS, Apache?), look for an IP address which often accesses your site. They might be spidering your site and making a copy, but if a change is quickly showing up on their site then it is more likely that they're running a proxy, so when someone makes a request from their site then the content is read from your site. View a page on their site, and look at your logs to see what IP addresses requested that page. If you can identify a single IP, or a range, then have your webmaster block access to those IP addresses. The proxy won't be able to show your content anymore. Better yet, your webmaster might be able to feed that IP address some different content... maybe something that violates the requirements of any advertising network that they're using. That test can be simplified if you create a new page, especially if it's a page which no other page links to. If the other site is able to immediately show the content of that page then there should be only two IP addresses accessing the page - yours and the proxy.
http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=58 http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/duplicate-content-due-to-scrapers.html
If you can locate the owner of the copycat site, send them a cease and desist letter courtesy of your web attorney. Hope that helps. Paul paulmcgraw.com
Serve them up some different content like SwimFinn mentioned. I had someone hotlinking to my images without my permission a few years back and I served them up some different images(same images but with a very dark bold comment across the image saying "these images were stolen without permission from mysite.com} after they failed to respond to my emails over a period of 3 days. Within 24 hours they quit hotlinking to my images. Maybe you can create a subdomain on your server with similar page names that show that IP messed up content ... nothing illegal but maybe cut and paste using a translate service to a real obscure language in huge letters. I would take screen shots. I would look at their source on their page and screen shot that too. Look for any cached copies in google and make note of times and dates and screen shot. It would be best to get you their host to address the issues to avoid backlash.