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    • Palmbourne
      Palmbourne last edited by

      In my Google webmaster tools for backlinks to my site there is this website. rcourier.com which shows 97,000 backlinks. When I dig deeper it in GWT it shows urls lick this http://www.ebrandtopmall.com/?from=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcourier.com%2Fus%2Fhgsoccerbox926.asp%3F35401&q=Borussia+Dortmund+Training+Jersey+2014–2015+(Black)+|+Soccer+Box I cannot find any backlinks to my site if I view the source code. I cannot understand why Google should link this to my website. Should I be worried and what should i do about it?

      Thank you in advance.

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      • Travis_Bailey
        Travis_Bailey last edited by

        The rcourier site has been hacked. It's now just a festering repository of scraped content. In short, I'm not going there on a Windows machine. It looks like your site has been substantially scraped. Use the following in Google search:

        site:rcourier.com intext:soccer box

        You can send a DMCA take down to the hosting company. You can get the information you need from whois.domaintools.com.

        Normally this wouldn't be too much of a cause for concern, but if you have the time - do the good guy thing and help clean up the internet.

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        • Palmbourne
          Palmbourne last edited by

          Hi

          Thank you for your response. The site is a new site launched last month. It is Chinese however I could not find any contact details. I did send an e-mail via the website but up to now there is no response. Some of the search terms which they have used with our name are appearing on page one of Google which this morning was quite bad for any Google searcher as they were then re-directed to a different product to what they were interested in.

          Through Google I put in a request to have the urls removed stating the above and that they were using our comany name which is in the process of being trademarked. This afternoon I have now seen that all of the urls are now 404s. Has Google actually read my request or are the urls removed as standard until they look into it. I have had no response from Google on this?

          Thank you in advance.

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