Someone is cloning my entire website
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So I’ve noticed that a clone of my wordpress site has appearch on Google and it’s even outranking me for certain keywords, which is just crazy given the fact it’s a clone, and a fairly new site.
I’ve talked to my host and from my understanding (I’m not very technical), they use some kind of reverse proxy approach. So when someone visits one of my URL:s, the hackers IP also visits that URL and the cloned site is updated directly. So basically, whenever I post something, the cloned site will be updated too.
This is a disaster and I feel really helpless. I’ve blocked the IP which took the cloned site down (403) but I see it appear here and there for a second (maybe the ip-block tool isn’t 100%) and it’s still getting indexed by google.
I have no idea what to do to combat this problem. Would a switch to a different host that uses different technology help?
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Thank you @soberbanda I will have a look. It sucks that it’s so easy to mirror a website. What’s even more disturbing is that Google allows it to rank so easily and once it ranks, it’s almost impossible to get the site removed from Google. It’s like they don’t care. It’s literally like speaking to a wall.
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