My Websites been ripped

[Aspirin]

Its sad when you spend so much time on a website and someone comes along and just copys all you have done.

My site UK Online Bingo - News, Reviews & Free Online Bingo Offers

His site www onlinebingo dot org dot uk

What would you do about this, how do I go about sorting this stuff out?

[ian-d]

Wouldn't say they are just copies of yours, but its definatly influenced their structure, not so much all the design. Still not right to do it though.

Sure the owner is familar on here!

Like your site though rob, its superb.

[ian]

Contact the networks / merchants that they use, tell them what has happened and see if they can get the affiliate dropped. I'm sure they wouldn't want to be associated with a copyright thief. You could also contact their hosting company and ask for the site to be taken down.

Take some screenshots, save the source code, and email all the evidence to the scumbag in question asking them to take the site down. Keep copies of all the emails you send and receive.

[Aspirin]

Originally Posted by ian-d Wouldn't say they are just copies of yours, but its definatly influenced their structure, not so much all the design. Still not right to do it though. Sure the owner is familar on here! Like your site though rob, its superb.

Every single review and news article has been copied, the site is a different colour yes but thats not what im looking at

[Ambski]

Certainly too close for comfort.

Agree entirely with ian about harvesting evidence. A good trick would be to put a self-penned piece of deliberate misinformation and see if that gets copied. Then it becomes beyond dispute regarding the website source.

Also agree with ian-d, your site design is tight. Kudos.

[Aspirin]

Originally Posted by ian Contact the networks / merchants that they use, tell them what has happened and see if they can get the affiliate dropped. I'm sure they wouldn't want to be associated with a copyright thief. You could also contact their hosting company and ask for the site to be taken down.

Yea done that, seems he is still updating the site as all affiliate links are not added yet, but the ones that are I have contacted the company's, also emailed his hosting company and him.

[ian-d]

Yes sorry, thats what i meant by structure, content etc. Design is the only difference. Just get onto them about it, but its a messy business to be involved in, as developing and creating a site is different than owning all the material and copyrights.

As said though, a semi-friendly email to them requesting they change content should do the trick. Failing that shame them on here...oops, already done that

[Aspirin]

Thanks for the nice words about me site

Seems that site has been removed already, I did manage to look at the whois info and do a search on BT.com and you sometimes get lucky with phone numbers

[Aspirin]

He must have done it very recently as Google never crawled it

sitenlinebingo.org.uk - Google Search

Thank god

[MortimerJazz]

I'm very much new here, so can't offer much advice on what best to do ... but I just wanted to add my name to the list of people impressed by your site.

Am I right in thinking that you're using a CMS system?

[ian-d]

He's using joomla (correct me if i'm wrong rob!), givens away by the icon!

He removed that fast, or he's taken it down to copy more I suspect he's on here!

[MortimerJazz]

Originally Posted by ian-d He's using joomla (correct me if i'm wrong rob!), givens away by the icon!

I thought it might be Joomla too - in which case I was going to ask which module he's used to list/rate the bingo sites on the homepage.

I've been trying to find a component to do that for a while now!