mirroring site

Only a few ways a mirror site can set this up to mirror that closely.
Either their site is running your’s in an iframe, which would be pretty useless to them, as it would be ignored by Google.
An Iframe you can protect yourself against. Add something like

<script type="text/javascript">
            //<![CDATA[
                if (window.top !== window.self) {document.write = '';window.top.location = window.self.location; setTimeout(function(){document.body.innerHTML='';},1);window.self.onload=function(evt){document.body.innerHTML='';};}
            //]]>
</script>

in your theme’s header tag.

Or they are more likely running a reverse proxy connecting back to your site, where every action on their site is mirrored by calling up the content from yours.. That’s why it looks as if it is “immediately mirrored”, because in fact it is. They do nothing, you do everything. ?? And Google’s bots would not be able to detect it, so they get indexed.

In the reverse proxy they can also on the fly auto-edit some of your content. Like for example change your copyrights into their names.

But without seeing the sites/domains, hard to say.

Not really much WordFence can do about an “evil” reverse proxy, unless you block the IPs, or rather the whole IP range they are calling you on. I would assume that the dynamic IPs are not entirely random or spread all over the world.

yes.. but its not iframe.. he mirroring my site but he can change my ads..
and no..google indexed them and they even take my position on google.. bcause they also edit rel canonical url point to their domain…
i cant block the ip bcause they use dynamic ip.so many ip..

for now it fix with cloudflare (im under attack security).. but everytime cloudflare will check the browser for 5 seconds..

Well.. You are giving up too easy.

You only have two options then. You either find a pattern in the IPs the headers used, and block the fool directly from accessing your site.

Or you do a DMCA report to Google convincing them that the other site is merely stolen content, and they will then kill it off and eradicate it from Google Search. In effect making it useless since it will drive no traffic. They might even kill off the person’s ads account, since if they are using Google ads, Google obviously know exactly who these people are. Down to their bank-account

They will then move on to duplicating someone else’s site, if they are allowed another ad account. But generally speaking, it is on you to take action..

so the solution is not on wordfence?
okay..

i tried block the ip but they use so many ip and random..

The solution might be in WordFence if you can find a pattern in their IPs. Like they all fall within the ownership of a certain proxy or VPN vendor’s ranges. Some scammy vendors, like HideMyAss, iPredator, or others helping scam artists are selling spammer packages of 500-1000 rotating IPs at a time, but they are all owned by that vendor. Or maybe all IPs come out from a certain hosting company, a certain country, …
Or they could be abusing the TOR Onion network, which could make the IPs run around the whole world.

You cannot block each IP one at a time, since that may be a never ending task.

Who do these IPs belong to when you look them up? If you are sure you can recognize the accesses that stem from the reverse proxy.

Hi @breaven
Just a couple of suggestions regarding how to prevent someone from mirroring your website contents using Wordfence:
– As it seems that your website contents are copied instantly, those who are copying your website contents must be running certain bots to crawl your website every “x” period of time, so you can simply set the “Rate Limiting Rules” more strictly.
– Once you figured out their crawlers IPs used, you can simply block them in “Advanced Blocking” section.

Besides Wordfence, you can do the following:
– Disable RSS. It would help in case that’s how they are scraping your website.
– File an abuse report with the host where the mirrored site is hosted.
– Ask search engines for a DMCA takedown request for this mirrored site, you may find these links helpful in this case:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-notice
https://www.microsoft.com/info/Search.aspx
https://policies.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/ip/index.htm

Thanks.

hi @wfalaa
thanks for reply
i dont know about rate limiting rules..but i think its so immediately, bcause everytime i do updaate, they update too immediately in real time..

and for ip.. i cant block all of them bcause they use so many and random ip..

if disable rss have negative impact like seo?

i tried file an abuse to their hosting but they give the fake mail address..i think their host are trash too..

for dmca i think its not prevented solution…it take long process and i have to do it again and again..bcause they will always do that again with others domain..