How can I stop people cloning my sites?

Impossible. But what specifically are they stealing? Images or text?

If you are using WordPress blog, you can use "WP Content Copy Protection" plugin which helps to protect the posts content from being copied by any other web site author.

why care?

here is three things you MUST do:
1. put more value into your website
2. out beat those one who have copy your model, be the best out of your niche, then you will have no need to worry about those copy cat
3. remember, you are your only one competitor.

The best thing you can do is ignore it and focus on getting better.

I've seen people move away from creating new stuff to avoid it being ripped and in the end, they suffer from it.

This was a toughie for me Patel, but, by letting go the individuals and sites, the problem went away. When you bring your attention to the cloner, and cloned sites, goodness knows, the copying will continue. But when you surrender your fear of loss, and devote all of your attention and energy to creating and connecting, practicing your skills and serving others, this problem will vanish.

You can't stop this...

Should change your focus on providing good and quality content

I used to have a lot of my content copied word for word until people started realizing duplicate content issues and plagiarism.

Once a very successful SEO Guru copied one of my articles word for word (and this guy has a huge marketing event every year).

He stole my content about 10 years ago only once.

It used to really bother me.

But there is an unwritten rule for success...you have to earn it no matter what industry you are in.

Just keep moving forward and don't let the BS stop you.

forget it. Can't be done. What's so great about your site anyway?

what you have to realize is life isn't the "fairy tale" you mummy told you it was.

In business and especially online If you can be ripped off, cloned, cheated, stabbed in the back there are enough people out there that will gladly do it.

All businesses have to protect them-selves from fraud, cheats. Online it's a lot easier. People from different cultures, hide behind a screen with no fear of legal action or even being i.d'd it's a perfect storm. Bit like going in a prison then complaining about all the "bad people" .That's the way it is.

If someone cloning your site disrupts your business that much get a different business or get off the net.

Scumbags are everywhere. Online makes it 120X easier.

Are the copied sites reducing your income?

If no, then why bother?

The only 100% surefire, foolproof method to keep people from stealing your stuff is to never post it where someone might see it.

Beyond the psychic effects already discussed, working too hard at protecting your sites has real risks.

I lost my Adsense account several years ago now. It was during the big Adsense boom, when content thieves were using software to scrape other sites and post the stolen content on their own MFA sites.

Google was working on identifying the various footprints left by the software, and encouraged publishers to report stolen content. I foolishly started doing so.

Turns out that the group I was reporting was a foreign syndicate, who somehow figured out that when they stole my content, the site got delisted.

They click-bombed my poor site until I got the dreaded "this account has been suspended due to suspicious activity" notice when I tried to log in. I only learned this because I politely and patiently worked my way through Google's Adsense support until I got an email from a live person.

Google acknowledged that I had done nothing wrong personally, but my account would remain closed because I posed a risk of further fraudulent clicks for advertisers.

At this point, the safest move is to follow the Ray Kroc doctrine - improve and innovate faster than they can copy.

If they have stolen your content then you can file a DMCA complaint
with their hosting company and they will shut them down. Google how
this is done - I don't want to be redundant here.