Someone Stole My Website!

Are some people stupid or what? Someone copied my entire site (over 1,000 pages), and placed it under a new domain. They changed the contact information and in some places the site name.

I don't get it, what's the point? What are they trying to achieve?

Do they not understand the duplicate content rule? Did they think they would go undetected? Do they think, just because they are online they can copy whatever they please and use it the way they want?

How do people like that sleep at night?

My site cost me thousands of dollars and over 5 years of hard work to build. And someone thinks they can just come in, use a program to copy and put it under a new domain and presto! They have a 1,000 page web site that cost them nothing.

So what does someone like me do in a situation like this?

Here are some action steps I'm going to take immediately:

I'm not going to contact them because, this is no mistake. They changed the contact name and my key links. So why try talking to a thief?
I'm going to report them Google.
I will contact their hosting company Yahoo and let them know about the situation.
I will post this blog to:

A.) Alert people so this doesn't happen to them.
B.) Create awareness about this kind of behavior.

I found out about it because I found some increased links in the Google webmaster section of inbound links. When I investigated. I found my site has been copied and indexed by Google.

My site is A Touch of Business.com :
http://www.atouchofbusiness.com

The domain that stole my site is at (this site may be down by the time you read this because I'm taking action today):
http://b2bserv2you.com/

The contact information is at:
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=b2bserv2you.com

Here Are Some Screen Shots I Took Before Posting This Entry

This is the original Contact Page

Original Contact Page