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Nicole -> Is someone stealing my content? (9/8/2006 19:24:31)
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I’m wondering whether anyone who understands web stats and particularly the motivations of some people who are repeatedly returning to my site using a particular key phrase can help me?
I’ve designed a site for a client who, as yet hasn’t begun using their site, they haven’t given the address to anybody and in fact the noindex,nofollow meta tags are still in place, as is the robots txt file.
Of all the hits I get to my site via search engines, over a third are presently for this particular client’s name, the client is located in the US, yet from my research through Google Analytics, the people/person searching on my client’s name are located within Australia. It’s difficult to narrow it down any further, but I’m pretty sure they are in Sydney. I’ve checked to see whether my client shares a name with anyone in Australia, they probably do, but I can’t find any reference to a person sharing the same name from Australia.
I informed my client more just out of curiosity I suppose, but he is of the opinion that a competitor is stealing either content or the design from his site, whereas I tend not to believe that as they are repeatedly going through my site to get to the client’s (the link on my portfolio page and subsequent case study is the only link to this site online).
Surely if they were stealing my client’s content or design they wouldn’t keep going through the link on my site? Also if it’s a competitor located close to my client in the US, it just doesn’t stack up that they are seemingly using an Australian ISP based in Sydney. Or does it?
Any thoughts on what might be going on would be greatly appreciated.
Nicole
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