Maybe op only needs to do enough to undermine their website, rather than drive them away.
it’s possible the combination of blocked image hotlinks, watermarking the domain inside the images, and CSS trickery that messes up the page on the proxy (along with whatever other steps that can be thought of to make it look wrong or erroneous on the proxied site) could get op bumped to #1 on search on enough links that it no longer matters.
Given the other site isn’t generating original content it’s unlikely to ever get its google juice back.
On a side note - does Google have an option for this? I’m sure they must have encountered this before and it helps the quality of their results too to block obviously fudged content.
it’s possible the combination of blocked image hotlinks, watermarking the domain inside the images, and CSS trickery that messes up the page on the proxy (along with whatever other steps that can be thought of to make it look wrong or erroneous on the proxied site) could get op bumped to #1 on search on enough links that it no longer matters.
Given the other site isn’t generating original content it’s unlikely to ever get its google juice back.
On a side note - does Google have an option for this? I’m sure they must have encountered this before and it helps the quality of their results too to block obviously fudged content.