Websites copying my content and spamming it on 15+ different domains- WHY?? More pop up as I try to take each one down- what do they gain from this?
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I own http://TheCareerProject.org and in the last 3 months over 15 sites have popped up copying my content and Google is scanning it as my own. Why would a site do this? Is it a hacker campaign to take away rankings? What benefits do they get from this. EXAMPLE1 : http://germanbollati.com/heat-victor-hugo-juarez-puebla/, EXAMPLE 2: http://rsa-dev1.com/unbalanced-underwriting-outsourcing-india/ There are 15 more I have submitted to Google Webmaster to evaluate and I contact the site owners and majority do not respond. Why are they doing this and what can I do? Thank you - Alicia- info@thecareerproject.org
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Hi Lewis,
Thank you for the quick response. I have contacted 8/15 domains through whois and majority of them are people who are being hacked by unknown person who I think is doing all of it since the weird fake content is all related. The other people just never get back to me.
I have sitemeter.com on there and it shows Google BOTS are scanning their URLS as part of my site though our URL has nothing in common. Won't this ruin my pagerank if they think this content is affiliated with them?There are no advertisements- I see no benefit other than to ruin the credibility of my site. If you can think of anything else please let me know.
Thanks again,
Alicia
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It would seem that they are trying to benefit from either the adverts that they display or from the links they add to the page that isn't your content but know that they would never get any clicks if they were on a site with no content so they steal other peoples content.
I would use whois to try and get their details and ask them to stop (which it sounds like ou have done), if that fails I would try and contact their host (can often work out the company from the whois record) to get them to bring the site down.
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