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    • BCB1121
      BCB1121 last edited by

      So I discovered a website the other day that is a complete duplicate of ours: justinchina.co.uk This is our website: petmedicalcenter.com . Thanks to help from Erica, I dug in deeper to see why this was happening. It seems that the justinchinca.co.uk which is hosted by GoDaddy has their A Record pointing at our web host.

      So that being said, our website does not seem to be hacked which is good news. Would this still cause an issue with our Google rankings?

      Our host, Host Monster said to contact GoDaddy and GoDaddy said that a domain owner can point their URL to anywhere that they choose.

      Anyway, any feedback would be helpful. Thanks for everyone thus far that has helped me.

      Brant

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      • CandymanKen
        CandymanKen last edited by

        Hi Brant-

        Since it looks like they really didn't "copy" the site as much as mirror it (all the content is coming from your site directly), maybe you can ask your host to look into blocking their ip somehow from accessing the content.

        Ken

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