How can I get a clone of my website taken down?

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There's a clone of my website that I need taken down. They clearly used a script to copy my site inside and out all the way down to the HTML. It's literally hundreds of thousands of URLs that are copied down to the brim. It seems to continuously crawl my site too because their site updates with my updates within hours.

There's no contact info for the owner on the site or in the WHOIS. I contacted the CloudFlare abuse department (they use them), tried the abuse department for their hosting company (but it's a sketchy off shore hosting company), and submitted to Google to have their website de-indexed here:

So far, nothing's really gotten done. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Related (duplicate?): http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/78404/someone-has-cloned-my-wordpress-blog-how-do-i-prevent-it-from-hurting-seo/78411 — MrWhite, May 07 '15 at 07:02
May you catch the user-agent of their spider and block it via .htaccess? — Marian Popovych, May 07 '15 at 10:21

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:37

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Here's a little trick you can try, if that site is using fetching your whole coding, you can try JavaScript redirect Check this thread

edited May 23 '17 at 12:37

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answered May 07 '15 at 06:27

Harmanpreet Singh

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Only caveat with that idea is that people with javascript turned off in their browser will not be able to use the site if that idea is implemented. – Mike -- No longer here May 07 '15 at 06:47
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@Mike: The redirect would only occur on the cloned site, to redirect the user back to the real site by checking the hostname. If JS is disabled then the user is simply not redirected - they just see the cloned site. (At least I think that is the intention?) Although I'm not sure why the link to the SO question - that would only seem to be an example of a JS redirect, there would need to be some additional (concealed) logic. – MrWhite May 07 '15 at 07:05

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 15 '15 at 21:20

So far, nothing's really gotten done. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

If you have not done so, set canonical links containing your domain name in the URLs. It will help Google establish you are the authoritative site.

If you have reported it to Google, it can take some time for algorithms to remove everything from the index. Scrapped content bears no value for rankings.

You could also report this abuse here too: https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905?hl=en

How can I get a clone of my website taken down?

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