OK, I don't understand this one. Maybe it's because I'm not super-devious (I also cannot bluff in poker).
Poking around my stats today, I found some referrals from the site www.katesoriginals.com.
It is titled "Laura's Blog" but it is sucking www.mynamekate.ca into an iframe and presenting it as its own.
All the links point back to the real MNIK and there doesn't appear to be any extra advertising around the site so I don't think anyone is making money from it. Or am I missing something?
When checking GoDaddy's whois (the site's registrar), the true owner is masked by Domains by Proxy.
So, what am I missing? What is the benefit to the content thief?
Update:
Darren points to a similar situation that Lauren Wood had recently. Both Lauren and Tim write about it in the followng links:
- http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/archives/2006/12/16/framed/
- http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/12/16/Framing-Lauren
- http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/archives/2006/12/19/post-results/
I need to try some of the more technical things they suggest to try to find out if something else is going on on the page. The other thing I find puzzling is the domain -- obviously there is some similarity there to my own name/domain. Do spammers have time to create related domains to their content prey? Apparently, at one time, the domain was a legitimate site. According to the WayBack Machine, it was a quilting art site. The last date they have for it is Feb 2006 .. which is also the last date I can find a reference to the domain in Google.
So, do spammers snap up once legitimate domains and then pull in legitimate content? Is it all about page rank? And the hope is that at some point in the future thhey can switch the content over to something other than mine?
Oh, I removed the link to the domain in an effort not to increase their pagerank. Any other ideas?
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