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Made an account here just to make this comment: You're going to want to send DMCA notices to both the registrar(s) AND Google.

1. Compile a list of domains and sitemaps that are 100% stealing and mirroring your content.

2. Go to Google's DMCA request page: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/legal-removal-reques...

3. Fill out all relevant data, and submit the offending domains and URL's.

Wait a few days, and you'll be happy to see that those pages are blocked from Google entirely. Not many people know what to do when Google DMCA's them, so it could solve your problem permanently (or you can automate it).

Regarding physically blocking them from scraping your site, you've got a few options. Put Cloudflare up if it isn't already. They've got at least one anti-scraping application (Scrape Shield) that may help.

Another thing you can do is automate the scraping of their websites using distinct query parameters and try to exhaust their list of proxies by automatically logging and filtering them. This might be a fruitless endeavor if they're using rotating residential proxies though.

Hope this helps, and good luck!


Thanks for the suggestions.

I've added filing a DMCA removal request to Google to the list of things to do if this continues ...

The rest of what you mentioned we've discussed in prior comments and are indeed helpful in mitigating this.


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