Stupid SEO Tricks
January 17th, 2008
We found a site that looked like it was stealing our content. Then we go there, and it’s exactly the same site! What are they doing? Are they crawling the site and sucking up all of our pages? Proxying us?
But wait:> dig d****list.com d****list.com. 1736 IN A 209.61.175.237That IP address looks familiar!
> dig 43things.com 43things.com. 86400 IN A 209.61.175.237
Why would someone do that? Is it some SEO trick to steal our google rank for their domain?
Josh noticed that the domain was registered to someone in China (we don’t think this is a good person trying to get us around the Great Firewall—a test tool we tried showed that 43things.com isn’t blocked). So we decided to cause them some trouble:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .*d****list.com$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989 [R]
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January 17th, 2008 at 04:14 PM hahahaha. that got a good chuckle from the crew over here :)
January 18th, 2008 at 12:06 AM That's awesome, and a good trick to know.