the thread is becoming more productive by the moment …
It just hit a brick wall because I am not a working example of what this does and does not do to profitablility.
I have never watched my SERPS, and I am not about to go into a big research project to prove my point here, I have a site to take care of. I am all customer service, and not SEO.
You need to look at what it does to a smaller site that actually can identify the location of the loss of a couple hundred SE positions.
The most I can detect is a slowing of growth. How much money is actually lost – it would cost me a bundle to conduct the research to find out.
But it doesn’t take rocket science to figure out that every lost SE position is a loss of income.
When you have 15,000 sites scraping you, it has to have an impact. Or else the scraper isn’t worth anything anyway and he will just disappear shortly.