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I don’t understand the logic of these bottom feeders. :sarcasm:
Why would you want to drive yourself nuts creating 20 sites which each bring in only $1,000 a month?
It seems easier and a more efficient management of time to just have one site and market it properly and make your $20,000 a month from that one site!
But then … what do I know ? … I’m certainly not rich yet … But then, I am not a greedy person either.
I make a decent living and I’m happy! .. :happydanc
Should be reported to Google
I have been following this thread with some interest. I must ask what is anyone going to do about it? sit around and chat? My plate is very full right now, I would have this takin care of by now.
Go after the site in question, spend an hour of your time and knock it out. Contact the site owner first with proof. If he/she/it tells you too beat it then take the steps needed for compliance.
This is the problem, most honest webmasters either do not have the time, knowledge or guts to really to something. In some cases they are affraid, well don’t be. Take a tough stand! Get off the duffer and take action! this is the reason this bullshit happens.
I am personally sick of it, I really don’t give a flying shit anymore. I will hunt these freakin dogs down. Parasitic assholes the have no place on the internet. I have the means and the capabilities to do so.
So go and get them!! greek39^*
We are on this site as well. It is quite odd and appears like a search site that is taking content from our page to attempt to make a description, kind of like Google, MSN or Yahoo does. But it seems they mostly scrapped our footer links which I can’t understand why that would be of any value for this site.
I will take Dom’s advice and catch up on that blackhat forum sometime, but are we sure this isn’t just someone’s attempt at creating a search engine for all of us affiliate sites? They claim to have over 327,000,000 pages indexed.
I have asked this question before, but I never did get an answer, so I will try again.
What exactly are these scrapers doing? I understand they are somehow getting credit and stealing away commissions that don’t belong to them, but how? I’ve followed some of these links and looked at the pages, but I still don’t understand.
Can somebody explain it to me? I just don’t like feeling niave about something I think I should be aware of.
Basically, they steal and publish content from other sites on their site.
The search engines find it, and may give a duplicate content penalty to one of the sites displaying the content – not always the thieving site. Often the original site who had the content stolen gets a penalty.
The penalty results is lower search engine traffic. This is what is most upsetting.
One way to battle it is to report the copyright theft to the search engines. If it is proven to be a legitimate complaint, the offending site will most likely be penalized heavily, if not removed from the index entirely.
A secondary aspect is the theif profitting from their illegal activities by acquiring players (remember, in such sites such acquisitions are at the expense of honest webmasters).Now, if the thief is displaying banners from casino affiliate programs, we expect the programs to stop any profit gained at our expense, and to close the offending affiliate account.
I feel the best way to discourage scraping (content theft) is to not make it profitable. It’s up to the programs to cooperate with us when we report theft of our content.
We have had reports from webmasters investigating some of the most notorious scraper sites that a casino itself may be responsible for quite a few scraper sites. Most notedly those taking top positions in yahoo and msn.
The site I have posted about in this thread has no affiliate links at all – not that I saw.
Some people think that the site is simply gathering links and information about sites to serve as a sort of directory or search engine for online gambling. Don’t be fooled. Legitimate directories do not take content directly from published pages, thereby triggering duplicate content penalties, and they certainly don’t list navigation anchors, etc. The composition of the text on this site is obviously scraped using automated scripts.
So, if I understand this right, what they are doing is stealing the text content from legitimate sites which brought in rankings from good SEO and then using their own affiliate accounts to gain the referrals?
So its not that they are somehow doing re-directs with some weird code to steal the profits from other affiliates?
Thank you for helping me to understand better.
Evie
Somewhat correct.
In real simple terms:
1. They steal original content
2. They give the original website a duplicate content penalty (in some cases), which lowers ranking on the search engines, resulting in lower traffic
3. The ‘scraper’ RANKS well with the site under the same keywords (and others) many times and by doing so gets players.
Redirects or not, they steal YOUR content in order to rank in YOUR place.
There are alot of different blackhat practices.
Follow all the links here xhttp://www.blackhatseo.com/ and you will understand.
Dominique wrote:There are alot of different blackhat practices.Follow all the links here xhttp://www.blackhatseo.com/ and you will understand.
Definitely a lot more. I was just talking about this specific site and why it hurts us (those who were scraped)
Good link. thanks. I have lots of reading to do.
Just a quick note if you plan on visiting these black hat forums have your guard up a bit. greek39
I agree.
Read quietly and learn.
Fergie wrote:Here I found a chunk from my site, and casinoman.net, onlinecasinoreviwer.com and more:
xhttp://www.casinocitycentral.com/page.jsp?content=Games%20HarveysHere we have exerpts from oggs.com, whatcasino.co.uk , gonegambling.com and more:
xhttp://www.casinocitycentral.com/page.jsp?content=Games%20Harveys&start=10I imagine this site has a piece of everybody at least once. It’s huge.
What the heck is it’s purpose? It doesn’t seem to have any affiliate links. Just chunks of hundreds of sites, with links to them.
I reported this site to Google on Monday, and they’ve done nothing. The site is alive and well, with over 20,000 pages indexed. I sent another spam report just now.
Am I submitting to the right place? I’m using this form: http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html
I fully expect Google to take action against sites like this. How many reports do I need to submit before they actually DO something about this? How long does it take to get results?
That’s the correct email address for google.
I haven’t any idea how long it takes to get any results. I reported several also, both to google and yahoo, and you can barely see any changes on either.
It’s frustrating.
You do one little thing unknowingly on your own site and you will immediately see your serps slide – yet try to do anything about nasty sites, and it’s like pulling teeth.
Thet d not maally remove sites. They like the reports because they look at the sites and try to figure out how to avoid letting them get into the ndex next time around.
Reporting helps the overall problem, but is slow to help the individual problem.
