Hi Kenneth, Wow, sorry this is happening with 2 different scrapers. So here’s what I’ve learned after all my research… this is just a traffic hijack. A hacker scrapes your website, then they can sell the stolen traffic on the black market. After their website starts ranking over yours, they redirect to another website. That’s insane, right? So if someone does a keyword search for your products, the scaper’s website will show up in SERPs instead of yours. Search engines don’t like duplicate content, so your website might eventually be “omitted” for being a duplicate. These types of black-hat SEO tricks only work in the short term. These websites eventually get penalized. I’m not clear if their search traffic is shut off or if they are removed from the index though. Bing/Yahoo have completely removed my scraped website from their index. Google hasn’t after 4 months. Google gets thousands of spam reports a day… so yeah, there are some they never get to. When you filed a spam report, did you also submit a report for malware? That one website seems fishy with the popups. You can send a feedback report to Google for both of these websites too. Google does eventually get to those. So do a google search for site:zeibsts.ga to pull up the indexed pages, then at the bottom of the screen, hit the feedback button. Tell Google "My website was scraped & cloaked to fool GoogleBot & to redirect my traffic. All indexed URLs from https://zeibsts.ga/ are my pages on https://authentic.dk/ . Cloaking can be confirmed by fetching any of his URLs with the Google mobile friendly tester. Here’s his home page: https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly?id=YzK-5QvIoX3KjwTa_LGJqA Now after you file that, you wait & wait & wait :( Supposedly Google does stuff to their algorithm’s to deal with these websites, but it takes a while before things get updated in search. I have been dealing with my issue 4 months now & I’m not sure Google has done anything yet. His pages still show up in search results. I was told on the google webmaster forum that the disavow tool wasn’t meant for this situation. It’s used for when you want to disassociate yourself from spammy backlinks that you created. In our cases, I believe Google “knows” that these are unnatural backlinks & you shouldn’t get penalized from them. They will show in GSC as long as the website is live, Google won’t remove them. When I first noticed my issue, I had 6,000 backlinks on GSC. Now there are nearly 15k… it fluctuates as new pages are indexed. You said some of your back linked pages are gone? If so, you can use the outdated URL remover: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals When did you file a DMCA? I initially hired a company to do DMCAs & attempt to get the website removed by the host. But it’s hosted in China & was useless. The lawyers didn’t understand the website “cloaking” & weren’t successful in getting pages de-indexed by Google either. It looks like your scraper’s websites are hosted on Cloudflare which is known to aid & abet hackers & copyright abusers :( I have only gotten about 70 of my scraper’s pages removed with DMCAs on Google after 4 months. I don’t understand why some DMCAs are approved & others aren’t. I can give you more details on the process I used for the Google DMCAs… often there are multiple rounds of rejections, but sending back screenshots of his pages using the Google mobile test seem to help. Some DMCAs take around 5 days, but another one I did took 6 weeks. It’s very frustrating. It was easy-peasy to get the website de-indexed on Bing with DMCAs.
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