MikeNoLastName - 9:46 pm on May 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

EFV, "Um, I didn't actually say that"
Hi EFV, I was referring to your comments about how one "well developed" page, meaning lots of outgoing links was doing poorly, but that a new, less developed page (with fewer links) was doing better than it.

I think there is one more minor(?) piece to this puzzle. The presense of Adsense on the page in question is the clincher/killer! And before you jump on me, follow this through. It fits nicely when you figure, the scraper sites are only there to serve Adsense ads. So if you are a "directory" site which looks like a Scraper, but you don't have Adsense ads (or perhaps one of another list of similar ads or affiliate programs) then maybe you're NOT a scraper after all and you get passed through. But if you aren't a directory site (just kinda look like one by having alot of offsite links), and you happen to serve Adsense ads, then you lose anyway.
It bothered me for a while why some of our similar pages were still doing well, while others dropped, and it seems to be because we DON'T have Adsense on those paricular pages still ranking.
If this sounds farfetched, keep in mind, it's all about trapping out scraper sites and then it makes total sense. From the profit side, keep in mind, half the posts on the Adsense and Adwords Forums are complaining about how bad these sites are for business and how badly G needs to get rid of them from the Adwords side. In the long term they see it as good for the adwords customers who will then hopefully bid more. So instead they decided to do it from the supply side and now they're finally doing something about them by getting rid of their traffic.