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July 20, 2006 at 1:22 am #699328AnonymousInactive
Greek, I dn’t have the time to check this out right now, but what do they do? Redirect?
July 20, 2006 at 3:13 am #699341AnonymousInactiveWell here’s a briefer. I believe Google makes it quite clear any domain whose sole purpose is to redirect is a violation of our guidelines and policies. Some of these domains fit that description. Some of these domains fall under the catagory of spam. Now multiple this list by say a hundred and consider all the places we must search for spam, let the SE’s decide.
888.biz
oK
888.com
ok
88880.com
redirects to 888.com
888800.com
ok
888800.net
ok
888casino.info
redirects to 888.com
888-poker.com
redirects to 888.com
888poker.net
redirects to pacificpoker.com
888-poker.net
redirects to pacificpoker.com
888snooker.com
ok
888snookerworldchampionship.com
redirects to 888snooker.com
888worldchampionshipsnooker.com
888worldsnooker.com
acazino.com
ok
acazino.net
ok
bjchamp.net
redirects to 888.com
blackjack247.com
redirects to 888.com
blackjack-casino-blackjack.com
ok
blackjack-club.com
ok
casino2lotto.com
ok
casino2lotto.net
ok
casino777.com
redirects to 888.com
casinocasinonet.net
redirects to 888.com
casino-casinos-casinos.com
ok
casino-online.com.cn
ok
casino-j.com
ok
casino-j.net
ok
casinoj-on-net.com
ok
casino-net-casino.net
redirects to 888.com
casino-net-casino.org
redirects to 888.com
casinoon.net
redirects to 888.com
casinoonnet-online.com
ok
casino-on-cell.com
ok
casinoonmac.com
redirects to 888.com
casino-on-mac.com
okgreek39
July 20, 2006 at 7:47 am #699351AnonymousInactiveCheck out this scraper site. There is a huge 888.com banner on the top of almost every page.
xhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:triplesteal.com
July 20, 2006 at 4:27 pm #699388AnonymousInactiveYea triplesteal has scraped some of my content… I hope they cut him off soon.
July 20, 2006 at 4:31 pm #699390AnonymousInactiveDid you report him at spamreports@888.com?
July 20, 2006 at 4:33 pm #699391AnonymousInactivekdollar wrote:Yea triplesteal has scraped some of my content… I hope they cut him off soon.Me too grab the whois while you can.greek39
July 25, 2006 at 12:22 pm #699808AnonymousInactive888.com. This is getting absolutely ridiculous. You must press from your side.
This Spammer is monopolizing Google. Just look at this one page, the following results in this 1st page (“poker sites”) include:
http://www.program-transformation.org/pub/Sandbox/CasinOSandbox/poker-13.html
http://www.program-transformation.org/pub/Sandbox/GamblinGSandbox/poker-9.html
http://www.katastro.fi/twiki/pub/People/GamblinG/poker-5.html
m4l.berlios.de/pub/Main/GamblinG/poker-16.html
Notice the varying number suffixes of these pages. This spammer rotates suffixes at will. All of these spam entries map to:
You must get to the bottom of this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 25, 2006 at 2:17 pm #699816AnonymousInactiveDid you send it to them? They don’t monitor this thread, they say.
July 25, 2006 at 2:27 pm #699819AnonymousInactiveOK, just sent it off to them……….
July 25, 2006 at 3:52 pm #699843AnonymousInactivedhayman wrote:888.com. This is getting absolutely ridiculous. You must press from your side.This Spammer is monopolizing Google. Just look at this one page, the following results in this 1st page (“poker sites”) include:
http://www.program-transformation.org/pub/Sandbox/CasinOSandbox/poker-13.html
http://www.program-transformation.org/pub/Sandbox/GamblinGSandbox/poker-9.html
http://www.katastro.fi/twiki/pub/People/GamblinG/poker-5.html
m4l.berlios.de/pub/Main/GamblinG/poker-16.html
Notice the varying number suffixes of these pages. This spammer rotates suffixes at will. All of these spam entries map to:
You must get to the bottom of this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All mention is being worked on. All the facts you will ever need to know are already posted on CAP. greek39
July 27, 2006 at 9:16 am #700076AnonymousInactiveAnother spam site
xhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=site:casino-player.usJuly 27, 2006 at 9:33 am #700078AnonymousInactiveplease send to reportspam@888.com. thanks
July 27, 2006 at 1:06 pm #700089vladcizsolMemberOk Guys while I was gone Nicolas wrote with the following update. I am very sorry for the delay in posting it:
Quote:In continuation to our fruitful communication and to the meeting you had with our team during the Affiliate Summit, I would like to continue updating you on our actions against unethical marketing practices. Please find below the items we took action on recently since opening the reportspam@888.com email. I’ve also attached an Excel sheet with the list of all the URLs we took care of in the last weeks.CAC Issue
Letter from “Dominique”, sent on June 29th reminding us about the email Mark from CAC sent us on June 14th. Two websites were mentioned in that email which we started to deal with on March 14th (we sent the affiliate a warning to cease this activity immediately). Upon receiving the other complaint (June 29th, from “Dominique”) we immediately blocked and suspended the affiliate’s account .“Misbehaving Affiliates”
On June 29th “Kevin” reported a list of 15 sites that were scraping his website. These websites actually belong to an affiliate of an affiliate of some of our partners (search engines). We replied to “Kevin” on June 30th trying to get further clarification the issue. This is a complex issue which we are trying to solve as soon as possible, but since we are dealing with a partner of a partner of a partner, the communication process will take some time. (Please see our remark regarding this issue at the bottom.)
iGAMI List
Brian sent us a list of 390 URLs on June 29th which we checked. A little more then half (54%) had links to 888 sites from our partners/affiliates. The results of this investigation resulted in:Blocking 81 affiliate accounts, as well as stopping all due payments.
Sending warning letters to 127 URLs asking them to take down the sites and desist from scraping.
Sending a letter clarifying our new policy to one of our affiliates that owns two URLs although there was no proven scraping activity on them.
Investigating one URL that belongs to a partner of one of our partners. Investigation still in process.
Indexspamming
“Elgoog” informed us on June 30th that http://2–go.com/c/888-com-affiliate.html was just indexed. This is not a site of any of our affiliates.“greek39” Questions
“greek39” sent us a few questions on July 6th. These questions relate to:A Parked domain
Whether 888.com software is an adware,
The reasons that an affiliate that was blocked still advertise us on the page,
A long list of 888.com sites that does not compile with Google’s guidelines.We have replied to all his questions except the 4th one on July 8th, and re-sent it on July 16th. Regarding question No. 4 we have asked “Greek39” to specify what the misbehavior in those sites is.
Spam Report
Dominique sent us another email on the July 16th pointing out Spamdexing done on Google. Again this is a partner “of a third degree” down the line, and I guess that this is a good time to talk a bit about this issue since it also came up in “Kevin” and iGAMI’s complaints.We have no problem implementing our policies regarding ethical marketing behavior on our partners. This take little time and is done according to straightforward procedures (first warning letter than blocking), but it is a clear process. The problem comes when the Spamdexing is done by one of the partners, of one of the partners, of our partner. Clearly we cannot accuse our direct partner that he uses unethical techniques or assume that he is even aware of it. What we do is communicate, by email and phone, to our direct partner and continuously push them to solve the issue. This obviously takes time and requires additional follow up.
Complaint Procedure
Some of the complaint e-mails we are receiving contain nothing but a URL, while some others contain explanations and specific information. To be able to effectively take care of complaints we need the e-mails to detail for each website what the complaint is about. These explanations and information really help us focus on solving the issue, instead of trying to understand where lays the problem. We would appreciate if CAP members will try to be as specific and accurate as possible on the emails they send us, providing all information that is relevant. For example:
· In scraping matters – which site was scraped
· In blog spamming matters – the specific URL and screenshot of the blog spamming
· In Spamdexing – the specific search term and the spamming sites etc
We look forward to continuing this process with you and your members. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or need any additional information.
July 27, 2006 at 2:12 pm #700099AnonymousInactiveThanks for the update, Prof. :thumbsup:
July 27, 2006 at 2:27 pm #700102AnonymousInactiveThat is interesting to read, I was getting frustrated again.
Lately there has been a resurgence of this.
The thing is, I have work to do. I cannot be policing google for various programs.
Programs need to learn how to do this themselves, it’s not that hard.
It is in the programs own interest to stay on good footing with google, and to expect affiliates to sacrifice their valuable time to police google is unreasonable.
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