Someone stole my site, text and all.

Someone duplicated a landing page I created, and copied the text word for word. This pisses me off...

My Site. http://www.orangecoastfleet.com/chrysler-300-grills/chrysler_300_grill.html

The Perp's site.
http://www.grills.snozzer.com/chrysler-300-grill.html

I'm hoping it wasn't anyone here on DP..but if it was, the least you could do is have the courtesy to change some of the text...I mean c'mon.

 

You could ask the to change it but i do not think they will. I just hope no one copied site and sold templates of it.

 

The templates look different?

 

I've dealt with many people stealing my content. There are some things you can do...

First, your page has no copyright notice on it. Add that right away. Although the people who steal content will ignore it, it gives you more ammo when dealing with them.

Next, send an email demanding that they remove the stolen material. Give them a deadline, and let them know that if it isn't removed you'll be filing a DMCA complaint with their ISP, Google, and Yahoo.

If they do not take the material off their site, file the DCMA complaints. If they do not respond or do not remove the material, their ISP will usually take the entire site down and Google and Yahoo will remove the sites from their indexes.

It takes some effort to file proper DCMA complaints, but it works. I have seen violators who took my stuff and did not remove it shut down.

Here is google's instructions, it will give you a good idea of what's involved with the filing of a DCMA complaint:
http://www.google.com/dmca.html

 

Honestly, it doesn't make much difference to me. I'm making a whopping couple bucks a day from that page. It doesn't get mass traffic, but just to see someone steal your site kind of sucks.

 

yup buddy it is just like that when some one scrapes your sites .. Even he has removed the links in the article that was written.

 

I can't find an email or way to contact whoever owns this site. I did a whois on www.snozzer.com but it doesn't have a registrant email or contact.

Nevermind...I found who copied it...and he is a DP member. I will contact him directly and let him know he needs to make a few changes to his (my) site.

 

first of all call the webmster of the website
if he doesn't answer

contact the company that registered the website

 

Man that does suck

 

that really sucks, I had that one time to ! luckily the host took him down

 

Hopefully the low-life who did so will take it down. If not, you can send a DMCA letter to them and to Google (which will remove them). I've got links to templates and the process outlined at: http://cstarsys.com/blog/2007/10/16/help-someones-stealing-my-content/

Good Luck!

 

I cleared it up with the site owner...we should be ok now.

 

That was fast, you are lucky!!

 

Yeah well, luckily it was DP member, so it wasn't difficult to track down. All's good. A mod can close this thread if they see the need.

 

hmm what a nice car perfect site hah the grill of that chrysler is niiice

it's good it all turned out for the best
greetz,
jobic