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    • 2mlab
      2mlab @ClaytonJ last edited by

      In the console there is a section called (translating into English) "Links pointing to your site"

      Traffic has not changed, in fact these do not appear in GA referrals.

      I can see all these domains, either the mirrorer paged, or the actual genuine pages pertaining to them originally. You cannot reach the mirrored pages via the menu in hp

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      • ClaytonJ
        ClaytonJ last edited by

        That console part provides clickable links.  So that goes back to my original question.  Can you click through to the domain and see a mimic copy of your site? Or is it simply showing you a link that clicks to nothing?

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        • 2mlab
          2mlab @ClaytonJ last edited by

          Yes, sorry but I thought that was clear from the beginning.

          If I click to the console links I am directed to the mirrored page in these domains. That's exactly how I saw them, otherwise I coudn't discover them

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          • ClaytonJ
            ClaytonJ last edited by

            I am honest I am still a little puzzled. But if what you are describing is what is happening.  Something very strange is going on. I have not heard of it before.

            A totally different domain, that you did not build is linking to your site with the exact copy of a page that it is linked to. If that is the case, your site is being specifically targeted. Someone has to have gone out of there way to copy your site and then re-build it on a different domain.

            This is what I would do:-

            I would contacting google asap.

            Can you find who owns the site on whois?

            Check the wayback machine to find out what the site was previously

            User open site explorer to track the nature of the links on the other domain. .

            And wow... that is unbelievable if it is correct...

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            • 2mlab
              2mlab @ClaytonJ last edited by

              As far as I know website scraping is not uncommon, apart from the backlinks

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              • ClaytonJ
                ClaytonJ last edited by

                Some basic scraping maybe common, but they have gone out of there way to backlink to you...

                Have you checked there metrics on open site explore...?  Checked whois?

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                • DirkC
                  DirkC last edited by

                  Hi,

                  From what I read it looks similar to these cases - https://moz.com/community/q/getting-different-search-queries-in-google-webmaster & http://moz.com/community/q/chinese-site-ranking-for-our-brand-name-possible-hack

                  In these cases - sites where hacked using a vulnerability in a Wordpress slider - they copied sites they wanted to target on to some of the hacked domains and used other hacked domains to point links to them. At that point they were trying to redirect traffic from genuine e-commerce sites to bogus ones.

                  You could try to contact the site owners & tell them they have been hacked. At the same time file a complaint @Google 

                  rgds,

                  Dirk

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                  • KaneJamison
                    KaneJamison last edited by

                    We see scraped content all the time. Occasionally we see scraped HTML in full form but slightly edited.

                    In general I'd do the following:

                    • Disavow those domains in GSC. Also consider disavowing any domains pointing links at the mirror sites. It could be possible that they are building up junk links to a mirror site which canonicals your site. No idea why anyone would do that but worth covering your bases.
                    • Submit DMCA notices to Google, their webhost, etc.
                    • Take a look through server logs for anything screwy. If you see tons of weird traffic from countries that aren't relevant to your business, you might decide to block them with your .htaccess file.
                    • Certainly make sure nothing has been changed on your own site (canonicals, common Wordpress hacks, etc.), though nothing is suggesting to me that that has happened.

                    Other than that I would just keep an eye on it and keep an eye on Google Search Console.

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                    • KaneJamison
                      KaneJamison @KaneJamison last edited by

                      One more thing that could be a long shot but is worth keeping an eye on: If someone had zero ethics and wanted to steal your links, one thing they could do is reach out to webmasters that link to you and pretend to be you, and claim that the mirror site is the new version of the website and ask them to change their links. Once complete, they'd redirect the mirror site to their own commercial site.

                      So, keep an eye on your own link profile and theirs, just to make sure none of those links are changing.

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                      • 2mlab
                        2mlab last edited by

                        Thanks everyone, I'll do more research and update all

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                        • 2mlab
                          2mlab @ClaytonJ last edited by

                          The links actually are just in some forms

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