I had some commercial scripts and this warez forums are giving them away for free. Yeah that is a different thing. But what I wanted to know here is that they are also linking directly to my sites. So will this have any effect on my site in google and its PR? Please let me know. Thanks.
Well, sadly I have a lot of experience with this. As for the link to you, that won't hurt you. It can't do anything but help, as far as search engines are concerned. As for the rest, though, your products are being stolen. :/ I used to fight it very hard, but now I realize there's nothing I can do to prevent it. If they want it badly enough, they are going to get it. So, I make it to where the software cannot be pirated by casual pirates, and accept the rest, spending time on other things.
I used to change the download links when I found them on warez sites. But those buggers that frequent such sites are persistent and hunt down any zip files, exe files, etc. Then I tried just renaming the zip files (eg: download.zip becomes mynumber1download.zip). Finally I gave up and figured, if they want to constantly hunt down stuff to pirate, let them go for it. What is more insidious are people who buy a product from a vendor, then pass the download url to everyone (every so often, someone will do the same here in the forums).
Another bad part for me is the bandwidth they use. My most popular product is a 14 MB download. These pirates use a lot of bandwidth downloading the software. So, I end up paying for them to steal my software.
Right. I am just profitting from adsense that are on my sites. Bcoz as soon as this product was lauched on warez. There was atleast 1000% increase in my traffic. And Its just 12th of the month. and I am out of my bandwidth Quota.
There is no harm in someone linking to you, as far as SEo is concerned. You will be penalised for only bad sites linked BY you not TO you. Obviously, you can not be held responseible for soemthing thats out of your reach. You may better enable hotlink protection or indirect download using Captcha and passing the download througha PHP script. Also make the script as secure as possible and if possible add code to get yourself a notification on each install. Its hard to fight warez site, thats the truth.
There is no harm in someone linking to you, as far as SEo is concerned. You will be penalised for only bad sites linked BY you not TO you. Obviously, you can not be held responseible for soemthing thats out of your reach. You may better enable hotlink protection or indirect download using Captcha and passing the download througha PHP script. Also make the script as secure as possible and if possible add code to get yourself a notification on each install. Its hard to fight warez site, thats the truth.