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Just to give an update on the situation.

I submitted a DMCA request here. As yet (5 days later) it has not been responded to but the offending domain has been offline for 3-4 days. Not sure who took it offline.

Still Google is ranking the offending domain instead of mine. In fact if you search for my exact URL (http://www.naturallivingideas.com/drinking-apple-cider-vinegar-benefits/) in Google, it still brings up the offending domain.

How long does it take for a site to be removed from the index once it goes offline?

James

@Kevin - Thanks. Is that this tool? https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-dashboard

@Greg - Thanks for the tip. As yet, no changes in ranking with only the 403 error.

@Paul - Thanks - my host have since implemented that line of code to prevent further problems.

@Brett - Thanks. I will do that and hopefully rankings will come back.

Hi

One of the pages of my website was starting to gather some real traction in Google rankings and hit 3500 visitors per day.

This is the page: http://www.naturallivingideas.com/drinking-apple-cider-vinegar-benefits/

On 11th January search traffic to this page fell to virtually 0. The rest of the site rankings were unaffected.

Yesterday I tried searching for some of the main keywords I was ranking for and instead of my search listing, this was appearing:

Image: http://www.naturallivingideas.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/weird-rankings.jpg

It is in the exact position I was ranking in, but instead this evn . moe site has stolen my ranking. Upon opening the website, it is simply my original article page in an iframe. If you look at the source code of the offending website, you will see what I mean.

Hopefully now you are getting a 403 forbidden error as my host blocked referrals from that site but they still hold my rankings.

Has anyone ever seen this before?

How was this done?

And how can I get my ranking back?

Thanks in advance,

James