Just found that one of those dodgy Proxy hiding website's is showing in the rankings with my website content and it's damaging my own. Does anybody know how to stop/block them? The one in question is unipeak.com.
For starters, link absolutely in your webpages - e.g. http://www.domain.com/page.html. If Google picks up a 302 redirect or a proxy and mistakes the content from your site as theirs, at least the links out - and the ones Google will follow - should be to your site. Not all proxy trash websites will be affected, some will parse the page and enter a redirect for every link. Check out who hosts the site, and see if the TOS allows proxies... you may be able to get them shut down. Try appealing to the site - after all, if Google is crawling what their users are searching, it is not exactly an "Anonymous web proxy service with advanced privacy features". Perhaps you can get them to stop the crawling of the pages searched.
I don't want to start closing anything down, I haven't got time, would be nice if Google would just not index any of those types of sites. I could do with a way of blocking their IP's, they seem to be downloading the pages using something and I can't find an IP for it, and there is one, it seemed to work for one guy.... http://incredibill.blogspot.com/2006/03/unipeak-privacy-scraper.html it's just that IP i've blocked and it still can view the site. Anybody else have any suggestions?
Yes, it is parsing and editing your html, entering it's own urls. Try using this in your .htaccess: setenvifnocase Referer "^http://www.unipeak.com/" spamsite=1 <FilesMatch "(.*)"> Order Allow,Deny Allow from all Deny from env=spamsite </FilesMatch> setenvifnocase Referer "^http://www.unipeak.net/" spamsite=1 <FilesMatch "(.*)"> Order Allow,Deny Allow from all Deny from env=spamsite </FilesMatch> Code (markup): There may be other sites besides .com and .net, perhaps someone else can show a way to set it for anything with unipeak in the url. I hope this works.
Code didn't work but allow deny on the IP did. Contacted Google for Cloaking and Copyright issues and have also contacted their domain and web host and await all of their replies, doesn't really help my site though, I should defend it myself, I never knew this was an issue and will watch it close. If it's a competitor that's started it off but somehow linking to the said URL grrrr Watchout for this type of site robbing spam bobbing hustle.
This one's had me scratching my head for a week or two - my site dropped out of the ranking for it's own name where it was previously #1 - now unipeak ranks #1 - I've just IP blocked them. Like g00gl3r, this was a new one on me
There IP has changed and now I can't block it, what's the story with you Dio? you still blocking them?
The change in IP address is no suprise to me. Sites like those are shifty. My .htaccess may have an error in it, but denying by name would be the best way to go, I think. Perhaps someone can get it to work and post a corrected version?
In an attempt to block both unipeak.com and net I have the following in my htaccess, but it's not working. Can anybody tell why? Seems to be as I have always used it to me. order allow,deny deny from 207.36.225.250 allow from all order allow,deny deny from 207.234.130.25 allow from all Code (markup):