proxied.

[Jordan]

a lot of directories including my main site have been proxied. I searched the forum for solutions on how to fix this (seeing as I'm pretty sure I'm being penalized by google for duplicate content because of these pages) but all I could find was a script that blocked me from seeing my own site.

anyone have any idea what to do? I contacted google and reported a few pages for spam but haven't seen any difference, I'm doubting that would help anyway.

[omen]

Try contacting the proxies themselves. Is there many of them? There are ways to stop proxies accessing your site though, I'll find the link!

[Jordan]

^ chyeah I tried that script someone posted, and it blocked me from viewing my own site so I took it off.

There are a few, maybe 6 or 7...and lol i doubt they would bother.

*1500th post, smoothh*

[n3o]

i think there is a .htaccess script to block certain domains/IPs ... have to google it ...

[Jordan]

^ yeah but I don't know every single proxy IP, that would be too time-consuming.
I'm actually more worried about the results in google. I'm not getting any traffic whatsoever from google anymore and my traffic has gone way down.

[mrbrantley]

Start by using the code <base href="http://www.yoursite.com" /> just above the </head> on each page. This will force whichever page requested to start with your primary URL. When the proxy visits this, it will take your URL with it and Google will notice.

Unfortunatly, there is no cut and dry way to get rid of all the proxies w/o manual entry. You can weed through them at your own pace until you eliminate the larger players... the sites with the power to take over your web site using your own content. You can use htaccess to block either the IP or domain of the proxy. I suggest the domain. These guys usually have loads of IP addresses, so blocking 1 does nothing.
This is a helpful tool for htacess. htaccess code generator (http://www.htmlbasix.com/blockusers.shtml)
Heres a start Bad Proxies (http://masbuchin.com/bad-proxy-sites-not-to-be-used-if-you-need-myspace-proxies.htm)

Its definatly a pain in the **** but given a few hours of work, it should not be a problem any longer.

[Jordan]

thankyouuu so much for that. i'll definitely try some of that, thanks. +rep.

[xCoOkies]

This happens because the idiots have anti-hotlinking disabled on the proxy.

[mountlaurel]

some called this PROXY HACk.

Proxy Hack is an activity that a person try to access your site through proxy and almost copied your site content that google can treat it as a duplicate content... So duplicate content meaning minus to your ranking

I have read an article how to fix this but i can't remember it anymore.. :)