Hi
I'm a web developer and digital marketer for a medium-sized UK probate genealogy company, Anglia Research.
I've finally got round to joining these forums because we're suffered repeated attacks of our website, resulting in it being removed from Google search results and replaced by dummy clone sites, in order to prevent potential customers contacting us. We presume the anonymous attacker is a competitor. Our local police are uncovering multiple layers of anonymity but have not yet caught them.
As far as I am able to tell so far from searching the Internet this seems to be a new kind of attack (we call it "clone-and-click-farm") and it may be connected to changes in Google algorithms. An article about our experiences and giving some advice on fighting back can be found on the Anglia Research website (sorry I am too new on here to be allowed to post a link to it).
A secondary motive for the attacks might be to try to try to silence us. We have been publicising these to politicians and the dummy sites have had all our campaign materials removed.
Anyway the long and the short of it is that there are currently several things I want to achieve on these forums:
- Warn people about this type of attack.
- Find other people who have suffered this type of attack.
- Share knowledge with them.
- Reach out to people who might be interested in our heir hunter fairness campaigns or be able to give us advice.