Someone has embedded my site into theirs - please help!

deniser · Apr 28, 2009

Google alerted me yesterday to the fact that someone has embedded my website into theirs. I can't post my domain here for reasons I won't go into.

So their domain name is www.theirsite/mysite.co.uk

If you click on their website name my site comes up working exactly like my site except that it has advertising down one side.

A look at analytics shows that my traffic has trebled the day this happened (yesterday) because of this but it is not real traffic as they are not hanging around.

Why would anyone do this?

Do I have anything to worry about? Or should I be pleased?

Will they rather than me be penalised for duplicate content?

Cromulent · Apr 28, 2009

deniser said:
Google alerted me yesterday to the fact that someone has embedded my website into theirs. I can't post my domain here for reasons I won't go into.

So their domain name is www.theirsite/mysite.co.uk

If you click on their website name my site comes up working exactly like my site except that it has advertising down one side.

A look at analytics shows that my traffic has trebled the day this happened (yesterday) because of this but it is not real traffic as they are not hanging around.

Why would anyone do this?

Do I have anything to worry about? Or should I be pleased?

Will they rather than me be penalised for duplicate content?

Contact their host and ask for the site to be removed for copyright violations. You better just hope that it is hosted in a copyright friendly country.

Can you PM me the domain in question?

OldWelshGuy · Apr 28, 2009

Have a read here. complete instructions. http://www.oldwelshguy.co.uk/web-marketing/beating-the-content-thieves-stolen-website-content

Although it seems like you have been proxied.

Why would they do this? They make money from the click throughs on the associated advertising displayed.

fisicx · Apr 28, 2009

Fill in a DCMA request right now: http://www.google.co.uk/dmca.html

deniser · Apr 28, 2009

Thanks, thanks, thanks.

Will do some reading of your links.

Cromulent · Apr 28, 2009

They seem to be hosted with GoDaddy if I am reading the Whois information correctly. Perhaps you could send them a DMCA request directly as doing it with Google will only get the site removed from that and not actually removed totally.

shopintegrator · Apr 28, 2009

When you say they have embedded your site in theirs, are you saying that they are using a frame or iframe in their web page so that your website is within their site?

If you are not sure the answer to the above, feel free to send me a private message with the web address and I'll take a look for you. If this is the case, I'll be able to help you stop this happening.

Shop Integrator

Cromulent · Apr 28, 2009

shopintegrator said:
When you say they have embedded your site in theirs, are you saying that they are using a frame or iframe in their web page so that your website is within their site?

If you are not sure the answer to the above, feel free to send me a private message with the web address and I'll take a look for you. If this is the case, I'll be able to help you stop this happening.

Shop Integrator
www.shopintegrator.com

It is an iframe from what I can tell.

shopintegrator · Apr 28, 2009

It is an iframe from what I can tell.

Good (for you) you can paste the following script in to all your web pages (between the <HEAD></HEAD> tags and your page will break out of the iframe and take over the full browser page of where you were embedded . So, whenever somebody looks at the other site's page who has you in an iframe, they will end up on your full page and will no longer be on the other site.

Code:

[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]<script type="text/javascript">[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]if(window != window.top)[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]{[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]top.location.href=location.href[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]}[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]}[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]</script>[/FONT][/COLOR]

Shop Integrator
www.shopintegrator.com

deniser · Apr 28, 2009

Thanks, I have asked my web designer to sort it out immediately.

I'm so relieved and grateful that all you kind people are on here to help me as I was in a state of real panic!

shopintegrator · Apr 28, 2009

Hi,

Glad to help out a fellow UKBF member

Just noticed an extra } in the script I posted for you, it should be:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]if(window != window.top)[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]{[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]top.location.href=location.href[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]}[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]</script>[/FONT][/COLOR]

Regards,
Shop Integrator
http://www.shopintegrator.co.uk/

deniser · Apr 28, 2009

Ok my web designer has now made the changes. It now links straight to my site.

Thanks Shopintegrator - I am truly grateful.

websnail · Apr 28, 2009

On the up side this means that you'll be getting a lot more traffic now that actually sees your site as your site so it's an ill wind that has a silver lined cloud

KateCB · May 1, 2009

Just a thought - to stop this happening to others, would the code you posted be any use if put into a website generally so that people couldn't proxy /pinch it?

OldWelshGuy · May 1, 2009

Yes, the code will break out of frames.

shopintegrator · May 1, 2009

Hi Kate,

The code I posted would work in anyones website.

By pinch it, do you mean it stopping someone stealing a websites design and using it for their own, or do you just mean stopping a site being included in a little window (frame or iframe) within another site under another web address?

OldWelshGuy · May 1, 2009

Another tip here is to always use absolute linking on your internal links. That way when someone scrapes your content you get free backlinks

The Dreaded Lurgy · May 1, 2009

Whats absolute linking?

OldWelshGuy · May 1, 2009

it is where internal links are hard coded (absolute), and not relative eg

../page.htm will take you to the page.html page of the folder it is in. Dreamweaver etc do this as default.

so if someone scrapes your content, your links will all workl.

HOWEVER.

by using domain.com/page.htm and they scrape your site and place it on another domain they own. the links will point back to your site as they are domain hard coded

The Dreaded Lurgy · May 1, 2009

sorry I dont get it, what is a relative link then? I thought all links to a page used that pages url.

Lark · May 3, 2009

As I understand it...when you link to something somewhere else on your site such as another page or an image it is common to code the link so that it gives directions to find the page or image relative to the source directory of your site...

EG instead of: www.yoursite.com/thepageyouwant.htm

you put: ../thepageyouwant.htm

If your website was hijacked into a frame on another site these links would become relative to the hijackers site, however, the clever suggestion is that if you code links fully, ie hardcode in "yoursite.com" then the links will bring people back to you.

The Dreaded Lurgy · May 4, 2009

Aha I see, Thank you.

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