Another affiliate stole our landing page - what's the best way to stop them?

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Looks like some scumbag decided to copy one of our landing pages. They copied everything - every word and every single image.

Now, this is not the first time something like that happened and I would usually be able to resolve this quickly by getting in touch with the network through which the affiliate is running the offer.

However, in this case it looks like the network is not being particularly proactive .
I have already sent a DMCA complaint to the scumbag's webhosting company and domain registrar. Is there anything else that I can do myself?

Next step would be to ask our lawyer to get in touch both with the affiliate network and the actual advertiser - but I would like to see if there are other ways to resolve something like that first.
 


I'm not sure how that whole copyright thing works... but i'd imagine the hosting company would do something about it. Affiliate companies can be downright stupid sometimes.

Otherwise ya your lawyer would def. know what to do I'm sure.

I hate dumbasses
 
I'd say move on but if you're particularly attached to it and don't want to pay a lawyer, you could write your own cease and desist order. It wouldn't be enforceable but could be enough to scare them into changing it. I'm sure there are tons on the net to model one after.
 
DMCA and hitting the webhost is the best plan.

Still, if you really want to hit them, depending on the offer, bot click via proxy or send shitty zips/email through to the advertiser so that their EPC goes to shit and gets them kicked ?

That'd be an asshole thing to do, but then, so is stealing your shit.
 
Or put this at the top of your landing page.

<script>
if(!top.location.indexOf("yourlandingpage.com")) {
window.location = "http://yourlandingpage.com";
}
</script>
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The idea is to check if they are on YOUR landing page, if they aren't then redirect them. Sometimes you'll get lucky and someone will waste a few hundred dollars on it.
 
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All part of the game. My LP was completely ripped off a few weeks ago, in fact the guy was hotlinking my images -which is how I found out. So I screwed him up pretty good, and got his affiliate manager to tell me his name and phone number. I had him stop within a day.

In retrospect, it's not a big deal. A landing page doesn't exist in a vacuum in the affiliate marketing chain, everything from your ads, to your domain name, to your keywords play just as important role. If it happened to me next time, I wouldn't take it so far.
 
Its funny that we would spend 100s of hours researching and tweaking our kws, and have no problem with someone stealing our kws. But we fucking go nuts when it is our landing page that gets copied or stolen. I guess I am the same way.
 
DonDadda said:
All part of the game. My LP was completely ripped off a few weeks ago, in fact the guy was hotlinking my images -which is how I found out. So I screwed him up pretty good, and got his affiliate manager to tell me his name and phone number. I had him stop within a day.

In retrospect, it's not a big deal. A landing page doesn't exist in a vacuum in the affiliate marketing chain, everything from your ads, to your domain name, to your keywords play just as important role. If it happened to me next time, I wouldn't take it so far.
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The AM could get fired for that...
 
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