: Sites scraping my site, serp rankings lost, what can I do? 2 weeks ago I found out that some domains were proxying or scraping my site. So when you accessed theirsite.com/some/parameter they
2 weeks ago I found out that some domains were proxying or scraping my site. So when you accessed theirsite.com/some/parameter they would render exactly the same as mysite.com/some/parameter but replacing all instances of mysite.com with theirsite.com, removing all javascript code, and adding before the tag some liveinternet.ru widget or something like that. There were like 10 domains doing it and I didn't see it before, so google indexed those pages and there were so many of those sites that they outranked me, propably even my links were deleted from search results. I managed to get IP's of servers running on those domains, and I filtered them out in my script so now I deliver them a blank page with link to my home page.
Now, for example, my page title is:
Something something - mysite.com
in before, when I typed site:mysite.com in google I saw page titles as follow:
Something something - theirsite.com
but after delivering on them blank pages I can see I got my page titles back. But the problem is, when I type some keyword where I'm sure my site should be, on results page there are still those spam domains, ranking higher than me, for example
result 1 - theirsite.com
result 2 - anothertheirsite.com
3 - anotheranothertheir.com
4 - mysite.com
5 - anotheranothertheir.com
I don't know how can I delete permamently them from search results and how can I regain my ranks?
There's more: I can add those sites to my search console (but I think I can't do anything with that)
When I go to links to your site in search console, in How your data is linked I can see that it's reading those sites as if they were mine... because some weird keywords pop up, like "phone sex taboo" and MANY MANY others.
Also, googlebot is accessing pages that don't exist on my site that I'm sure are not linked anywhere in my script, for example it's accessing:
mysite.com/some-old-keyword-from-spam-sites and giving me emails and notificatinos that I should fix this error.
I think that googlebot is accessing those spam domains' old links (that were before they started scraping my site) and reading their sites as mine (as if it belongs to me).
I tried DMCA report but they say they don't see my content on theirs (because I blocked those sites), tried spam report with no results.
Like I said I lost almost all of my traffic, in one day (according to search console) my search clicks went down from 8000-12000 daily to just 100.
Has anyone encountered a similiar situation before? What can I do to regain my ranks?
I can just add that those sites outranked me on most long tail keywords, and on main keywords (3 keywords) google completely removed me from search results...
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I would also look into CloudFlare. While it won't help the situation you are currently in, there are tools on there that help prevent scraping.
I think you have done the correct thing by serving up a blank page. It looks like Google is just being slow to update. If those scraper websites have little traffic then Google won't be visiting them often and it could take months before every page is removed.
However, I would suggest removing the 'nofollow' on the page. With nofollow the link is not counting towards your site - if you remove it, your PageRank should be boosted a little more and help to keep you above future scrapers you haven't blocked yet.
You also said the scraper sites are removing all JS code but if you're able to put other HTML on the page you could consider either a meta refresh tag:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL='YOURURL'" />
Or a JavaScript onload attribute:
<body onload="window.location.href='YOURURL'">
According to this meta refresh is observed by search engines so again may speed up removal of the scraper sites.
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