Another Lesson Learned the Hard Way
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Fool Me Once, Shame on Me…
Not sure I even want to get into the reasons behind this post… but always remember…
When you Expose Your Domains, Websites, and or Niche Markets…
Some People ARE Going to Copy Them… Word for Word!
Then Mirror your Site and Represent the Content as their Own!
Karma is a Great Equalizer
Although you used private registration on the sites with the copied content you forgot to use private registration on some of your others that also use the same Adsense ID…
…Oops!
Like I say -- Shame on Me for sharing the domain names, product markets, site content, information, etc…
Shame on You for not covering your ass better…
Now I have 70+ Niche Product Markets to research the hell out of with Micro Niche Finder and share with readers.
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I have been doing my part to "Build the Internet" since 1994, when I built my first website! Since then, I have built hundreds of niche websites for myself and many others, focused on design, applications, ecommerce, search optimization and internet marketing.
That really blows! You put in all the hours and people rip you off. They are thieves but there’s probably nothing you can do about it. Here’s to hoping the internet gods give them a smackdown.
I can only begin to imagine what or who is behind the post.
oh oh oh
I can’t wait to see who you are going to out.
It wasn’t me!!!!! ;)
@Tao – Bet it was :D
Yeah, at the first of the post, I thought it was going to be funny, then the second picture… i still thought funny…. then by the end of it, it seems like Mark is just a little pissed. I wish there were more details but I understand, though calling them out would make you feel better… hint hint. lol
@ All – LOL
I will never call the person out, as much as I hate it… it’s just not my style of getting even. And… To put any thoughts to rest though… its not anyone in niche building community, and not anyone who has publicly commented here in the past several months.
I AM however going to go to exact measures, and supply all the info for people to build websites that directly compete with theirs!
Anyone remember the RankSpanker Reports? Hmmm which of the sites to do first!?!
M
Mark,
Is there a way to protect yourself from this happening again..why would someone want to copy your sites..is this allowed? does this happen on a regular basis… say like duplicate content … you have duplicate sites..
@David – Happens quite a lot David, in most cases, it’s just sploggers copying through your rss feed, but even that usually wont happen until the site becomes a bit more popular.
In this case… it was on a few of the sites I mentioned being for sale last week, which pissed me off even more.
The person went out of their way to register new domains (checked reg dates) copy/pasted the content, including the images, on very similar domain names, then rewrote bits and pieces of the content to pass copyscape.
I REALLY don’t have any issues with someone competing in the same markets, similar domains, etc… I mean, thats what ALL of us are doing anyhow right?
In this case, it was more personal I guess. It was someone I had personally helped in the past, shared some metrics, etc.
It would be like ME going through the comments on this post, finding all the review sites people own, and building sites based on their content and research. Its just wrong…
M
Well that is a bunch of horsesh*t, that someone would do you that way after you had helped them. The deserve whatever happens by violating your trust.
well one thing about it… obviously they aren’t “creative” enough to come up with their own niche ideas and have to revert to theft probably means they aren’t going to be successful anyhow and will bite them in the ass in the long run.
take it as a compliment… they obviously envy you and your success. Hold your head up about it and kick their ass in that market will only make them feel even lower.
What a complete loser. I guess that’s why a lot of people who have sites like yourself are somewhat guarded about what they do and do not share. At least the majority of your visitors, I would hope, won’t rip you off and appreciate what you offer here.
That was unfortunate Mark. Anyway, I am curious about how you were able to get to know about the other sites..Does simply googling their Adsense ID reveal the other sites?
That blows.
I hope they get what they have coming to them.
I guess I am not quite getting it. I try to read this site daily. All I see is a youtube clip that someone copied some of the niche sites verbatim. I know you won’t say the who, but I don’t see what the actual fraud sites are, have I missed it or no one has said yet?
@Anand there are many ways to find the sites of others. Probably the easiest way to find some is use their pubid for adsense and search at adsspy.com (from the people behind SEMRush which is an awesome site). Then, once you have a list of some of their sites you find out the IP address(es) of their servers (You can find it by doing a search at domaintools.com). Then you can go to Bing.com (I know most everyone hates it but it’s great for this) and do a search for:
IP:[enter ip address here]
and BAM you have most of the sites on that server, now you can manually go through the list and deduce which ones are theirs by theme,affiliate IDs, same or similar privacy policy/contact/about pages, and to make sure here’s an evil way….
right click on the page of a site you know is theirs.
Select ‘View Source’
Is it WP or BANS? If it is then:
Section with exact files removed by Mark…
You will see an error similar to:
Fatal error: Call to a member function meta() on a non-object on line 6
USERNAME will be the person’s cPanel/Server username, and you do the same thing to check it against other sites you find that you think might be theirs.
Sorry this is so long but I feel if you know how they get your info you can help protect yourself by not making it easy. Like Mark said private whois is necessary, but there are other things you need to do as well. Having a reseller account makes it more difficult for people to find your sites. Setup each domain as a different cpanel account so my evil trick doesn’t give them any useful info. Even better is getting a reseller at Hostgator so the server you’re on hosts thousands of sites, so the Bing IP:xxx.xxx.xx.xx makes it more difficult.
Another thing everyone can do if they are worried about someone finding their sites/niches is to make sure your privacy policy,contact,about,theme,etc. is unique for your site.
wow..Awesome explanation there Daniel..Thanks a lot…This is goldmine stuff.
No problem Anand.
Hope Mark’s readers liked it and learned a little. Mark edited a section but I’m not gonna throw a fit or anything, I was a little hesitant to even write the darned thing, but I thought it was something people can learn from.
So what happened to the sheep?
LOL Bill!
Did you finally kick that nasty bout of sickness?
M
Yes. Thank God! I’ve never had pneumonia…and never want it again. That stuff is no joke.
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