And just out of curiosity, how is it 888.com’s fault that scrapers steal your content??
And no, you are not alone, type “HustleCards.com” into google with the quotes and you will see all the assholes who have scraped my site lately.
Greek I truly don’t know how you keep up with these guys and shut them down, in my case I have emailed them all and a very small portion removed my content.
To answer your question we must begin by asking what is a scraper. A scraper is usually a lazy minded person. I hate talking tech stuff, because I would like people to understand it.
A scraper pull snippets and text from a website that usually rank high for keywords. By doing so they hope to rank high as well. In simple terms, they send out script spiders and target keywords in the hopes of rank high themselves.
In my situation they have grabbed my domain name and some content. Therefore a scraper site uses the information from another site. Basically its content theft for the domain owner.
RSS (Rich Site Summary) can be used for websites, weblogs, and pod casting are very vunerable to scrapers. I do not use any for that reason, also link farms are prime candidates for scraping.
So a scraper finally succeeds, ranks high on the engines receives lots of traffic and tries and get the most out of it. A Gambling scraper I would assume would like to get the most of of his high ranking site. If I Practiced this, would I just redirect the page? No way! I would stuff as many programs into my scraped site as I could, it would be more profitable for me to do so.
With this in mind, and I have personally spoke with many scrapers, this would be the best way. So now I ask, why would a high ranking scraped page just redirect to 888.com? From what I know this would be foolish.
Just a little while back, for the keyword “casino games” out of 20 million pages this scraper site ranked number 2. Unfortunatley the scraper just simply just redirected his page to 888.com and the site was removed.
Now does this make sense to you? I have thousands of scrape sites that sole purpose is to redirect to 888.com why is this happening? How did 888.com become so big?
The search engines are very clear on this practice. In my current situation, the scaper used my domain name and part of my description. The SE’s see it as content theft and redirect page. Against every policy in the book, and can easily be takin care of.
Now visit the 888.com part of this forum and begin to read the posts. All the scraping, locked accounts, complaints ect… very little admiration for 888.com.
Does CAP charge for programs to be certified? Sure they do and with good reason. But money and the interests of CAP members should never be compromized. I feel it has in this situation, its really unfortunate.
So what can I do shut down scraper sites and release my article to the London Times who has been lurking on this forum for the last four months. Then once published, the article will be sent to the London Stock Exchange and hopefully the commission puts a hold on trading until further investigation. I have more than enough proof now 888.com is partly to blame. This is not a Court of Law and will not provide the details just like 888.com does not. greek39