Here are two more such sites having copies of previous versions of my site: http://www.yaohoo.biz/ http://e-businessjournal.com/ there seem to be many more...
hello Wiper, Our CBTopSites Clickbank Mall converts well with targeted traffic. I am not sure about the other malls.
It doesn't take a lot of work to copy another site if they're screen scraping. Anyway, I was about to become an affiliate of another site but quickly realized that it was a copy of your site (see it here.). The rss feed creation was what drew me to it. All this guy did was tweak the design a bit and added a few features so it would fly under the radar. Maybe you ought to email him as well. If anything, you'd do good to copy his rss feed generation idea -- that ought to help you get more affiliates.
Plagiarism is, of course, the sincerest form of flattery... Looks like you, CB and maybe a lawyer have some work to do... The good thing is that I have signed onto your CB mall and as soon as I get a sale from it, I will go pro. And I bet a few other DPers are now discovering what you offer as well.
I have a similar site and added the following to my htaccess file so other sites can't display my images on their site: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?YOURSITEHERE.com [NC] RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ - [NC,F,L] Although, after looking at the other sites it looks like they saved the images to their server also, unless they are using mod rewrite to pull the images from your server.
I think alls sorted out now. Its really not good to copy from other sites as someone might have spent weeks to organize the content and design
Hello WayneB, Thank you for your reply. I will implement that. Regarding those sites, I have emailed them and waiting for reply. Thank you
I've had that happen to me also. I would suggest that you go and do a search of his webhost and contact them and also contact them personally and also contact clickbank about it. this unfortunately happens all too often. Colleen
I have done that and it worked. I have found three duplicate sites and contacted their owners. All of them replied positively. Two of them have already removed the duplicate sites and one of them replied that he will remove it after his vacation.
Kareti, I find this a little hypocritical of you. On one side you enforce not copying your site, and then on the other side you promote it, see here. What's the difference to you if they Frame the site using Frames or using a PHP Include function, which pulls your content directly to their site, as long as all of the links work as they should, what's the big deal? Ultimately, you have to ask yourself something, do you really want affiliates? The reason I ask is Affiliates will work tirelessly to have their promotions outrank even yours, which in the end only benefits you by bringing you sales the way you wanted it to by starting the affiliate program. Like I said though, all of the links on the page need to remain the way you have them on your web site. If they do, then all of the links will point to your web site anyway giving you weight in the serps anyway, which I'm assuming is your objective by having all links cloaked within your web site. Regards, Perry.
Hello Perry, Thank you for your reply. But you have misunderstood me. if you see the sites I have mentioned, example: friday-release.com ( He removed the site now.) he copied and pasted everything from each page of my clickbank mall on his site. In all the pages, he replaced my domain with his domain and our Mall links with his own links. This is exactly lke this example: you have a site with thousands of articles (containging your clickbank links) and a person copies and pastes all of the articles on his site and replaces your links with his links. Then, will you accept it? That is what happened in my situation exactly. Thank you