Hacked site - knocked of for brand name
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Thanks for all your help on this.
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Thanks Ryan, it turns out that site along with others are using proxies to copy our content in a negative campaign. Will put into action what you said.
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Feel free to report this issue to Google via: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport via your webmaster tools account (you should set on up for your site / brand as well if you don't have one yet).
This post goes into even greater detail as to how some scraper sites were able to outrank original content post-Panda: http://moz.com/blog/postpanda-your-original-content-is-being-outranked-by-scrapers-amp-partners and should give you several further ideas on improvements you can make.
You can also go the DMCA route since they're scraping your copyrighted content. Full instructions on that here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93713. Cheers!
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