: Malicious copy of site After seeing an increase of shady organic keyword results appearing in Google Analytics we identified the referring Hostname. After adding the exit page to hostname we discovered

@LarsenBagley505

What really is happening which could happen again is that random computers are programmed to scan the entire internet looking for servers to do malicious acts to such as copying websites.

While blocking IP's is a good idea at first, it can be bad later because legit people might be using the same IP as the attacker once used.

The only thing I would suggest in this case is for you to add something to your web server that will limit the amount of connections or data that can be downloaded in any given time period, and anything that exceeds that will be directed to an error page until they slow down. This will greatly lower your chances of your content being copied. Instead, they can have your error page.

And as for why? Yes I would agree, some would make such computers do this kind of work for money while others might do it for fun. In reality, we can't just dwell on the reason, but if you begin taking action to send these automated "bots" to the error page, then you'll be better off.

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