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Sites with my site in an IFrame - Negative SEO?

by Jimmy Jay
4 replies
  • SEO
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I just found out that a competitor of mine has purchased a bunch of domain names similar to mine, and basically set one of my high-value sites to come up in an IFrame as his site. I looked at the source and it's very simple, a <head> section, then the iFrame in the body, nothing else.


Is this intended to be some sort of negative SEO? Is this going to hurt me? I've done a redirect on all traffic from these sites to google in the meantime, just wondering what his purpose could be.


He hid his domain registrations through Domains by Proxy, but I found the registration details through domainsono.


Thanks
//j


Code he's using on his sites:


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Duplicate of My site</title>
<META name="description" content="duplicate of my site"><META name="keywords" content="same keywords I use">
</head>
<frameset rows="100%,*" border="0">
<frame src="my site" frameborder="0" />
<frame frameborder="0" noresize />
</frameset>
<!-- pageok -->
<!-- 03 -->
<!-- -->
</html>
#iframe #negative #negative seo #seo #site #sites
  • Profile picture of the author yakim1
    If you put this javascript on each page of your site this may stop the iframe process on the pirate site...

    <script type="text/javascript">
    <!--
    if (top.location.href != self.location.href)
    top.location.href = self.location.href;
    //-->
    </script>

    What used to work years ago was to put... <no iframe> in the meta tags of each page of your site. I don't know if that works any more.

    Best regards,
    Steve Yakim
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    • Profile picture of the author Jimmy Jay
      I found that code online yesterday and put it in my footer, but instead of doing a full redirect to my page by pointing to top.location.self I put it to Google with a site:mysite search populated
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  • Profile picture of the author yakim1
    The code needs to appear before the </body> tag and possibly your footer is after that tag.

    Best regards,
    Steve Yakim
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    • Profile picture of the author Jimmy Jay
      It works fine doing the Google redirect, but you're right I see the page load and then do the redirect. I will move it to the head to try to get the redirect done before the page completely loads.
      Thanks for your input Steve!
      //j
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