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Hello guys,
I was checking my product descriptions and I found out that there is a website that is using my descriptions word by word, also they use company name, product images, they have a link that sends you to my site, contact form..
I tried to purchase something and the order came through our email, but i made an inquire and it didn't come through. Also they have a sub-folder with my company name.
Also they have url's with my company name, and this isn't right is it?
I am confused and honestly I don't know what to do, we don't take part to any affiliation program or anything like that and we don't ship out of Europe. This is a Chinese website.
Just for curiosity, I noticed that one of our competitors is there as well, and it does seem weird.
Here is the links:
www.everychina . com/company/repsole_limited-hz1405d06.html
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I checked analytics, backlinks, everything but it doesn't benefit us in any way. Not even the links point to my site.
So upset! What should I do? Contact Google and report the site or should I contact the company?
Thanks
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This happens to us once in awhile. A Chinese firm simply dupes our site and changes the logo, company info and such to peddle their items (that are poor replicas). Seems like in your case they didn't replace the logo and such, but expect it to happen. Often times these sites do not get indexed (or indexed poorly) and fall into the abyss.
Always make surer to take action as Carla said (also notify Bing about it using their Support web form).
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Hi,
We had something similar happen to us. I will tell you the story because I really do think it will help.
One of our clients liked our originally website so much that he wanted to copy it. We gave him the ok but asked him to modify the content 100% so that Google would not penalize us. He gave us access to his Google Analytics. Our client did not modify the content for about 6 months. Google recognized this as a duplicated site and our clients website received absolutely no traffic at all for keywords. The only way to get to his website was by searching his brand name. This was a great relief to us. Google penalized him not us. After about 6 months, the client finally got around to changing his content and when he did, he started ranking for keywords words.
In your case, I would disavow the chinese website and notify the Google Spam team.
Good luck.
Carla
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