: Someone is duplicating/reproducing my site what can I do? Someone has created an exact copy of my site. At first, the code of his pages were identical to mine. A few days later he just

@Deb1703797

If the content is similar then it can hurt your seo. But people copy other websites all the time to be honest atleast the design. As a freelance web developer I have worked with many clients who wanted to clone some famous website.

This may come handy support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359?hl=en
Then report a DMCA on google

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@Odierno851

DMCA should be sent to the Web Host. You can find who this is by looking on the Whois record for the Name Servers.

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@Nimeshi995

If you haven't already, you probably want to verify your site on both Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. Adding the verification will help the search engines recognize the legitimate site.
You may also want to consider adding metatags declaring the author and generator in your site's templates. See metatag properties/values on MDN here.
Add and/or update Terms of Use Page
Add and/or update copyright date on site footer upon making any content or html changes suggested here.


Although dated, this blog post from Kissmetrics pretty much sums up the courses of action noted here.

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