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That's kind of the point, is it not?

• masklinn 15y ago
  Uh not really. Copy, not hotlink. The fake site would copy the originals (no referrer, no special sauce) and would be back to the current situation: a fake site looking exactly like the real one and ranking higher on google.
  • kristofferR 15y ago
    Well, it would work for a while since I doubt the owner of the fake site is actively monitoring it. He probably has a bunch of similar scraped sites running on autopilot. Even when(if?) he notices it, he'd have to change the operation of the bot to rewrite the links. At that point the SEO would be quite damaged by the canonical tags. If the canonical tags were added stealthily he probably wouldn't notice at all until his SEO was completely destroyed.
    • rapind 15y ago
      Maybe, but if I were writing a script to scrape and clone a site I'd probably strip canonical meta tags anyways. There needs to be an international douche law to serve as a deterrent to this kind of behaviour.
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  • mnutt 15y ago
    It would still be possible, from the javascript itself: if(document.location.host != "jquery.com") { document.location = "http://jquery.com"; }
    • meatmanek 15y ago
      What's keeping the jquery.it people from changing that?