Affiliates "Copying" Our Website

by GayleT
4 replies
Hi all,

So, there are a bunch of our affiliates who do an exact copy of our website with their CB Affiliate link as the URL.

I assume -- but don't know for sure -- that this will NOT hurt our site in the search engines since our site was up first.(??)

I'd appreciate thoughts on whether you think this is harmful to us. Would you take the time and effort to contact them to take our site down?

Thank you!!

Gayle
#affiliates #copying #website
  • Profile picture of the author marblehillmo
    it is still not a chance that I would take. It is also not helping them by duplicating you. I would make it a point to let them know that.


    Also if you add new content and they copy it and happen to get spidered / indexed before you then this can cause problems.

    If they feel the need to copy , you might want to come up with a canned design / content for him, & remake a unique version of your site that you do not allow to be copied.

    Good Luck
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  • Profile picture of the author pjCheviot
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    Hi Gayle

    So, there are a bunch of our affiliates who do an exact copy of our website with their CB Affiliate link as the URL.
    Not sure if I get what you mean here - what exactly are they doing? Where are they putting the url?

    Are they using their domain name with a copy of your site on it? If they then use their normal CB affiliate link - this would take them to your salespage anyway.

    I'm a bit confused, sorry.
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