I can see that the webpages in question are a little different but they could still be counting them via web server logs or something. … you’ve got to be careful jumping to conclusions about why things are done.
Check the cache in google for that website. It is clearly copying onlinecasinoreports.com home page content.
As long as I don’t use copied content I can make my sites anyway I want. Google and the other SEs list the sites by their choice and rank them by their rules.
I shouldn’t be forced to design a site to please other affiliates and their view on how SEs should list sites.
True you can, but the example I have given above is classic cloaking and if you forget the fact that this particular site actually relies on stolen content which is cloaked to appear in the search engine results, is also a very good example on how to spam your way into the search engines.
That said they don’t stay for very long in the search engines – the problem is when one is banned, they are replaced by 5 more sites.