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InternetPEI
05-28-2004, 02:34 PM
I posted ratemybike.net on here today for sale and someone who owns ratemybike.com is redirecting their site to mine and it caused me to lose a sale since they thought it was a duplicate site :(

edit:

Looks like the site is being redirected to mine? I deleted my member account on mine and it removed it also on theirs.

Anything I can do to get them to stop forwarding to my site?

Thanks
Mekhu
05-28-2004, 02:44 PM
Did you actually make this site? Seems to me these "turnkey" sites are absolutely everywhere... seen about 10+ a day being sold in the RO&R forum.

Is it possible you bought it from someone who is basically making a ton and reselling them?
InternetPEI
05-28-2004, 02:46 PM
I completely changed the code from the origional rating site to make it suit the theme of the ratemybike.net I spent 4 hours modding the code from guy/girl to the bike theme and changed the top logos,etc
InternetPEI
05-28-2004, 02:53 PM
Heres his code that is redirecting to mine:


<HTML><HEAD>
<META NAME="description" content="RATE my BIKE: ultimate online motorcycle rating.">
<META NAME="keywords" content="motorcycle, bike, rating, rate, motorsport, chopper, harley davidson">
<TITLE>RATEmyBIKE *** Rate this Bike, Chopper, Harley,... whatever *** Biker''s Classifieds</TITLE>

</HEAD>
<FRAMESET ROWS="100%,*" BORDER="0" FRAMEBORDER="0">
<FRAME SRC="http://www.ratemybike.net/" SCROLLING="AUTO" NAME="bannerframe" NORESIZE>
</FRAMESET>
<NOFRAMES>
RATEmyBIKE *** Rate this Bike, Chopper, Harley,... whatever *** Biker''s Classifieds
<P>
<DIV ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="http://www.ratemybike.net/">http://ratemybike.com/</A></DIV>
</NOFRAMES>
</HTML>
ktwilight
05-28-2004, 02:53 PM
look at the code in ratemybike.com you'll notice he/she's not really redirecting in a way. instead he/she used a frameset.

best is to get a break out of frame jscript. that would help. ;)

if that still doesn't work, throw in a referral check and direct the visitors to a huge page 'bout .com stealing your site. ;)
InternetPEI
05-28-2004, 02:55 PM
ktwilight, We posted at the same time :) Thanks for looking into this as well, That might be a good idea :D
ktwilight
05-28-2004, 03:13 PM
hehehehe...yea i realise after i finished posting, weirdly enough i saw 4 posts, and was like... O.O!! hehehehe ^^

well...do try it out...it should work well... ;)
InternetPEI
05-28-2004, 03:13 PM
I added this in the index.php so it at least shows the correct .net after the redirection :)

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
if (parent.location != self.location) {
parent.location = self.location.href
}
//-->
</script>
Loon
05-28-2004, 03:22 PM
If the frame doesn't work try this to redirect the user if they came from the .com site:


RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?ratemybike.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /yourpage.html [L]
pubenemy
05-28-2004, 03:22 PM
Left you a post in your sale thread I am interested.
ktwilight
05-28-2004, 03:23 PM
nice... ^^ that's good.

this is what i would use to break out of frames. ;)

<head>
<script>
if (parent.frames.length > 0) {
parent.location.href = self.document.location}
</script>
</head>
Loon
05-28-2004, 03:24 PM
You should make a note in your sale thread, they *might* be trying to pass themselves off as you (the seller) and getting somebody to pay them for the site (your site) although check google, they might have been pointing it there all the time.
Charlottezweb
05-28-2004, 03:29 PM
Oh, my mind is racing with all the evil little things you could do... :)

-Jason
InternetPEI
05-28-2004, 03:30 PM
Thanks Loon,

I actually looked at this site a few days ago and it wasnt being redirected then.

I just uploaded this site yesterday since I spent the afternoon working on it.
blackdog
05-28-2004, 03:32 PM
heh you could have some fun with this. I'd make the site redirect to a biker chick porn site if the reffering url is from the .com.

then call his hosting comany and complain :D
InternetPEI
05-28-2004, 03:37 PM
lol Nice ideas :D
ktwilight
05-28-2004, 03:54 PM
thanks Loon!! :D you've just reminded me on something that's quite important, the power of htaccess... :D
InternetPEI
05-28-2004, 05:35 PM
I see he put his origional site back up :)

I emailed his hoster and him earier this afternoon.
pubenemy
05-28-2004, 05:57 PM
It actually looks like hes redirecting to bikeornot.com now.
InternetPEI
05-29-2004, 12:58 AM
I spoke to the owner of the site and he owns the bikeornot.com and accidently had a forward setup to go to the site I now owned from when he used to own the .net also

"I developed the site bikeornot.com and the ratemybike-domains were only forwarding traffic to bikeornot.com... like this: a visitor comes to ratemybike.com, is then forwarded to ratemybike.net, and again is forwarded to bikeornot.com."
ktwilight
05-29-2004, 12:50 PM
ah...

i thought it's possible to have one site with multi-domains without any redirection 'script'...

don't most host panels do pointers and redirections?

that's what i did for my multiple domains, i have .net .com .org, etc...and they all leads to the same site, without any extra script/code... ;-/

weird i think...inexperience maybe?
InternetPEI
05-29-2004, 01:24 PM
Yep, he may not be using any sort of control panel.
Hotwire
05-30-2004, 04:20 PM
I also contacted him, I want to buy ratemybike.com off of him, and do the redirect to the .net or vice-a-verca.
InternetPEI
05-30-2004, 04:41 PM
Sounds good :)

I also forwarded off his email he sent me to you with his address