A semi client of mine reached out to me recently that another site scraped his whole site and traffic dropped significantly.

[jeremyskillings]

Someone that reaches out to me on occasion for help but is mostly an SEO DIYer recently had his site copied completely and his traffic dropped significantly immediately after.  I have never had a  client experience this in the past. Does anyone have suggestions or expertise on this?  See his question and what he has done below.

Jeremy

This site scraped my credit site. Its appearance coincides with a dramatic sitewide decrease in Google traffic.I submitted a takedown request by paying this company $200. No results yet. My hosting company also placed blocks on the site HTML which pings my server for CSS and picture files. My Google Webmaster tools account shows inbound links coming from the copycat. Is there something more I should be doing? Copy Site: http://masqueros.com/Real Site: https://www.savvyoncredit.com/

[ThompsonPaul]

In addition to Russ's excellent advice, you can quickly and easily submit a DMCA takedown request to Google yourself - no need to pay for it.

Follow the instructions for filling out the form very carefully
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/legal-removal-request?complaint_type=dmca&visit_id=1-636440705749643193-3331676266&hl=en&rd=1

Note this is to get the site removed from Google's index. To get it actually removed from the server, you'll need to serve the takedown notice to the host and the site owner - but folks who engage in this kind of fsckery usually do a good job of insulating themselves from such action.

Get the site out of Google's index, then focus your energy on improving your own site.

Good luck.

Paul

[rjonesx. 0]

Your site continues to rank for long snippets of your content which indicates the copy of the site is probably not the issue with your rankings. You definitely have seen a decline in traffic since April of this year.

Honestly, I would think about doing a content refresh. Go back to each article, especially those which have lost traffic, and greatly update/improve the content and republish at the same location but with the new updated publish date.

It also looks like your site could use some serious link building. The financial space is highly competitive so you have to stay on your toes.