: Our website was copied 100% and mirrored on a different domain One of our websites was copied word for word all 400 pages by someone who used a special program to clone the site. We saw

@Shelley277

Unfortunately, great contents gets copied, particularly if the brand is not widely known. Just like week I discovered a copy of several stackexchange sites and there is even an open question where they are listed.

As I build sites for a living, this has happened to several of my sites with text and even entire data-tables being copied. This led me to discover that people who copy content are often lazy. They rarely keep it up to date, if they cannot do so automatically. So, I strongly recommend that you add new things regularly, even if they are minor changes but mentioning new products, new versions, some specials, etc will keep your content newer than the copied one. Make the date up updates displayed, Google picks those up.

Beyond that do report where possible according to @Mario Awad's suggestion above (+1 to that answer BTW). Even if you cannot get the site taken down because some are outside areas where this can happen without much effort, having them delisted from Google is effective.

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@Kevin317

You should notify the hosting company of the offending websites. I had this issue with a website that was hosted by godaddy. They sent the offending website owners an email telling them to justify the use of my website data, etc. Upon no response, the offending website was removed by godaddy. That was the end of the story.

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@Caterina187

I have the same problem. Our website is fully copied and available on another website. It looks like the offending party is trying to get links to their illegal businesses.

A quick research reveals the following tools, which I'll be using right now. I suggest you give them a shot too and also follow the other advice given by the other answers and comments.


Google Webmaster Tools - Report alleged copyright infringement: Web Search
Removing Content From Google
Internet Crime Complaint Center - Filing a Complaint


Good luck.

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@Harper822

I can't give you a very detailed answer (as I am not a legal professional), but I would recommend trying to solve your problem with a legal, approach. If you wrote your websites content, then you own the copyright on it. Copying content you own without your permission is against the law.

I would attempt to contact both the website owners and their hosts, and send them a takedown notice.

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@Si4351233

Using @toomanyairmiles 's research (thank you good sir), it's clear that this is a blackhat SEO attack on your site. You could always do a Whois lookup on the site to see who is behind all of this. In the very least, you can get a webhost name in which you can contact and request them to take the mirrored sites down.

If you can get the sites taken down - provided they don't pop back up - then your stats will recover eventually.

Though, I'm curious because you didn't mention this in your comment to toomanyairmiles; is your website a template? Who made it?

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@Radia820

I Googled this phrase from your website looking for a literal string match:-


"With all of the computer repair services available these days we
understand that you, our customer, have many choices for your computer
technical support needs."


Google lists 45 results for that very specific phrase, so it's not just one website, it's dozens, and this is why Google has downgraded your site. Most of your content appears to be generic bought text which only exists for SEO purposes.

Either your company has been engaging in some very dodgy SEO practices or your're using a template site with template content.

In short, your site is exactly the kind of site the Google is trying to get rid of with penguin and panda.

If you're really a genuine business I would buy a new domain and rewrite your entire site from top to bottom with original content and a cleaner design.

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