greek39
888.com marketting strageties is their own biz, i am not the one to say if it is Ok or not, if someone feel offended he needs to clear it up with them and if not then take some other action, as long as it can benefit him or the group in the long run.
my thoughts on the matter is (and i do not want to offend anyone and be complitly frank) is that people are looking at their traffic and seeing scrapper sites that are doing better SEO then them (see my 1st post on this thread) rank higher then them. yep , it is upsetting but as long as the scrapper has not done anything that is agaist the law, i do not see anything you can do, the best opu can do is be better in SEO and learn the tricks of the trade and don’t assume that content is everything since we all know that it is not.
i was not familier with the website you mentioned, some people mistaken people which are using aggresive SEO and malicious hacker, it is not the same, you can do aggresive SEO and still be in the boundries of the law.
moral is a very subjective thing, you can not take someone to court based on that ….
if someone is doing a better job in SEO then you and you can not compete, then drop out of the race, do not pay attention to your position in the SERPs , it is that simple, if you do want to compete – then learn, use tools, consult with others , so many people have asked me SEO questions in private and i helped them
no one will do the SEO work for you, the fact that you ASSUME that your site serves the visitor better then the scrapper site is a very subjective thing, the scrapper may think that by redirecting the traffic directly to the vendor he serves the visitor better the showing him a lot of content while he just want to start playing, the SE view on this is also subjective and google have a diffrent subjective view on what are the site ranks for a specific term while MSN has a diffrent subjective view and ranking and any other SE.
this is the reality, now I do think white hat sites can win and it may be even easier for them to win if they will utialize the tools out there, there is no legal issue in using these tools, maybe moral things (like getting links from places you did not talked with directly but you both aggreed on some links dealing aggrement)
I also think that there is no such thing as pure white hat, if you change your title tag, or exchanged or even asked for link, your not white hat anymore …
it is all diffrent shades of gray …
the shade level of gray is in the eye of the beholder
I hope that the message clear