Many know what happened to TrafficPower. Google stomped on them and their clients sites in one big swoop. Just do a search for Traffic Power in google or go to trafficpowersucks.com. I would not be surprised if the same happens to the person soiling our industry.
888 are not behind this latest attack. The individual or individuals targetting our sites with these shitty redirect pages on these .info and .pl domains – I feel is giving us a strong warning.
We have obviously affected that person’s relationship with 888 to an extent that he/she has been hit big time in the pocket. So at least we can take solace in that. I know that from speaking to Andrew Beveridge of eCOGRA last week, that John Anderson is not happy. John has also informed Andrew that 888 have addressed these issues. We certainly are seeing a lot less scraper sites promoting 888 in the recent weeks. This is a good thing.
So it looks like the individual behind the scraping is now trying to generate revenue off a shitty PPC Site and damage our rankings in the process.
So in the meantime what action do we take? These sites are not scraping our sites, indeed the source code on the sites that redirect to veryfastsearch appear to be scraping the results from google, which include our site’s description – this in turn providing us with a backlink.
The thing is there appears to be well over 10,000 of these sites each providing backlinks. A crude attempt to nuke/bowl the targetted sites out of the serps.
For a new site this is very worrying. For a site still sandboxed, again very worrying. For an established site which has strong rankings and solid WH Seo in place, it is like throwing marshmallows at a tank. Ineffective.
Another thing we have to take on board is that a competent blackhat can throw up to 4000 new sites a day. Utilising many scripts and utilities readily available.