Some site was stealing my page’s contents
So for the last week, while I was tracking the traffic coming into my website, I noticed traffic coming in from this one particular site. And I really don’t want to say who it is because that will help them in their page ranking, so I’ll give you their website spelled backwards (ofni.srewsnatset). Anyway, I noticed this site led to my own site while I was viewing my web statistics and I had no reason why they were doing that until I searched for their domain online and noticed that their main domain led to my page while it had set up modules elsewhere on their site with Google Ads. So basically, they were using my content to increase their pagerank and potentially gain revenue off the traffic gain on the ads. Bullshit, I tell you.
What did I do about all this? Well I tried disabling hotlinking, but it didn’t quite seem to work. Then I tried .htaccess, but it didn’t work out very well either. But somehow, it created a rift of synchronization between their page and my page and from there I was able to pinpoint how exactly this other page was producing my page. So I made a simple change, and now they’re getting this page instead of my page:
(http://www.ninenines.net/suckitbitches.html)
Ah, revenge is sweet.
Flamester Said,
July 23, 2007 @ 7:31 pm
wow!
you are a man possessed! This post is amazing.
I can’t believe you did all this detective work (like the one they call Batman)and went to the trouble of creating this great landing page.
you rock! thanx for stickin’ it to the man.
Darqam Said,
January 24, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
Man, my admiration for you just went up by alot seeing this. Nice work