Someone Stole My Title, Meta Description Tag and Page Rank

1) stop "reading up" on SEO on the internet. really. just stop it. now.<p>80% of everything written about SEO on the internet is bullshit (this means 8 out of the 10 articles you have read reduce your knowledge about SEO (and the web in general))<p>2) never ever mention the word page rank again. page-rank is thought-cancer (and does not mean what you think it means)<p>3) your site is indexed via your IP address <a href="http://173.254.8.113/" rel="nofollow">http://173.254.8.113/</a>, this site ranks for your obscure long tail search term. make a canonical tag to your main domain. then our site will rank for your obscure long tail search term. to understand canonical tags go to <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ch/2010/09/seo-starter-guide-updated.html" rel="nofollow">http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ch/2010/09/seo-starte...</a> download the PDF and read it front to cover.<p>4) if you want to understand SEO, read a book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Search-Engine-Marketing-Inc-Companys/dp/0131852922" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Search-Engine-Marketing-Inc-Companys/d...</a><p>last but not least: stop worrying and complaining about scrapper sites. they are here to stay. try to make the best shop website around.<p>and as a side note: with a high probability your blogpost will - from now on - rank for "high quality Bitcoin hat" as it reached the front page of HN (it will get distributed a lot, via scrappers, HN web-app-websites, ...) and the blog post has - compared to your shop start page and your shop page - textual content.

Something smells fishy here. Both uggsblogs.org and the original site at btcgear.com point to the same IP address (173.254.8.113), and have the exact same content.<p>At a guess, uggsblogs.org is trying to set up a pagerank scam where in the future they'll try to sell the domain to someone else with the false promise of a high PR value. Either that or the btcgear.com guys are attempting to create some drama in an unethical manner. My money's on the pagerank scam or a similar equivalent.<p>Edit: quick way to fix this would be to add a separate virtual host on the btcgear.com server for uggsblogs.org, filled with nothing empty content. Leave the scammers to then move on to someone else.

Not to go on a complete SEO rant, but here it goes. Page Rank is next to useless, like that hangy thing in the back of your throat. Page title and meta description are a close second, but still needed. Kind of like a title of a book, these serve only to "introduce" your page to the search engines and the users. Content, content, content. That's where it really matters.<p>Despite what most people think, there IS useful SEO reading on the web. This is an excellent guide: <a href="http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo" rel="nofollow">http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo</a><p>But, as another poster mentioned, something strange is going on here. How long has your site been live?