Kansas City SEO and SEM

by: Anne Haynes

Today was an interesting day in the office. I always tell my team to optimize their own web sites and create industry blogs to support continued learning in the search marketing industry.

One of the SEO specialists that works with me had his site scrapped off the internet and copied to his web site word for word from one top level domain:(.com) to another(.net).

The following is the original site that my friend put massive hours creating:

The following is the stolen version (.net) of the original site (.com):

Bottom-line infatex.com was position nine page 1 for the term “search engine marketing specialist” and now the site sits position nine page 2 for the term.

If you search on the company name “infatex” both the (.com) and copied (.net) come up.

My friend did his research and found the following posts on the subject:

SEO Rountable’s Take on Site Hacking

Matt Cutts Take on How to Handle Hacked Sites

Bottom-line infatex.com was position nine page 1 for the term “search engine marketing specialist” and now he is position nine page 2 for the term.

How to Fix it:

Go here and learn the rights of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Another strategy is to email the person that has registered the other domain. You can find out this information by using DNSSTUFF.com and use the IPWHOIS Lookup tool. When you have this person’s emai information, send an email and cc’ legal@yourdomain.com (even if you don’t have a legal department), and state that the site hacker has violated Title II of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and must bring down their Web site or legal action will be taken.

Then

File a formal spam complaint with Google

Then

Use Copyscape.com to insure no one is cutting and pasting from your site into their site.