Hi,
I apologize if someone already brought this up, but frankly I don’t have time to read thru the 8 pages of posts.
But I am in total agreement with Janet in that I think the answer to the problem lies with the SEs rather than anything we can do, at least at present. And expect to get any kind of reasonably successful results.
I imagine by the time someone gets a scraper site taken down by their ISP, that 20 more have been thrown up. …. that number is likely missing a zero.
anyway, … as I understand it: the scraped pages are never even allowed to be read by surfers, because they get redirected to an ad or sponsor site.
Well isn’t it obvious? The SEs need to put a stop to this silly shit. Its been going on a long time … bout as long as I can recall, … where you’d do a search and click on what you thought was going to be a page you’d really want to see … and at least in some cases you’d maybe get a glimpse of the page you wanted to see … and then you’d get transfered to the ad page.
Why do the SEs allow this to happen? Surely with all those rocket scientists over at google or yahoo … they could come up with a solution.
I can remember in some cases, I imagine many cases in respect to our niche, … I would search for a gambling related term and literally get an entire page of nothing but redirects over to the ad page.
I’ve never understood why the SEs allow this to happen without severely punishing sites that do it?
Perhaps they do punish for it; but that raises the question in my mind: what is the problem with why can’t they immediately recognize when a redirect happens? and then just as quickly have that page, or perhaps even the entire domain thrown out of the SE listings?
They sure don’t seem to have a problem with their (reaction) speed when it comes to spotting a site with links to gambling in their PPCs.
btw before i go: I reserve the right to be completely ignorant (therefore wrong) in all the above 
… but after reading the first half of this thread I didn’t ever see anybody chasing the direction I mentioned above (other than Janet having touched on it) so I thought I’d at least ask.