Hi Mojo,
I asked our SEO department to check into the scraping complaints on your Google search. These are their conclusions:
The Google search is bringing up what I call “illegitimate” sites (like 3402.djogcy.org/) as well legitimate sites.
For example:
105.djogcy.org/
1035.cwtz.org/
http://www.poker-diamonds.com/casino_related_sites.html
http://www.gpwa.net/forum/showthread.php?p=468814 (ironically discussing the scraping problem!)
The legitimate sites that come up in the search are not the problem. The link to a site with an All Slots link (allslots.com/?&bTag=aszsusolcas) came up in the search as innocently as the GPWA link above.
The “illegitimate” sites (numbers.letters.org/ like 3402.djogcy.org/) are the problem – scroll down on any of them and you get to text. This text differs from illegitimate site to illegitimate site. In this text you will find many more illegitimate links. But, more importantly, you will find the common factor is the following 5 links (each one implanted once in the text):
http://www.casinoclassifieds.com/
http://www.bigcasinolist.com/
http://www.everything-casino.com/
http://www.casinobar.com/
http://www.tga-casino-hotel-management.co.uk/
Most likely, whoever is behind these five links is the culprit. I thought I might find a connection between these links doing a whois.net search, but did not find as decisive an answer as I was hoping for.
Within all that mass of text there are dozens of more links to more illegitimate sites. In short, what we have here is a huge onion with tons of layers, with links leading to illegitimate sites with more links leading to more illegitimate sites, and so on and so on and so on.
Conclusions
1. The “illiegitimate” links (like 3402.djogcy.org/) rotate all the time, so that what you see one day, you may not see the next day.
2. The legitimate site links which come up with the search are coming up totally innocently with the search – they are not the problem.
3. This tactic is used to increase the page ranking of sites MUCH further down the link chain.
4. No damage is being done to the original search sites OR to the legitimate sites which come up in the search.
5. This issue is also being discussed here http://www.gpwa.net/forum/showthread.php?p=468814 with pretty much the same conclusions. Just too funny that this link comes up in the mojo search!
6. Google are the best ones to help with this now.
Sorry this is so long, but I wanted to let you know all we figured out at this point. I hope it is helpful – it seems that Google really is the next stop to put an end to this.
Marcia