Could anyone help me with this fake site I found in my backlink profile?
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The site is masquerading as 'yurbuds' store, a brand of headphones, but in SERPs, as seen in the image below, the content on the site is actually of one of my other sites. Has anyone seen anything like this before?
How would it have happened?
My instinct is to disavow. Any other thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
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I made the test with
site: store.yurbuds.com
site: http://store.yurbuds.comWith different results, but to the the point there's a clone of your site
This part is sometimes hard to understand because your site is being affected but not compromised. There is no need for a compromise for this kind of attack to work. The website that is stealing your results is the one that is compromised.
Let’s take a look at a few ways that we have to prevent and/or fix this.
- Make use of the rel=canonical tag within each page.
- Contact the owner of the compromised website.
- Find the WHOIS information for the cloned site.
- Set-up a Google alert.
- Block requests from the cloned site.
- Report copied content to Google.