matt621 - 11:34 pm on Aug 31, 2005 (gmt 0)

We are dead in the water. Not only did they remove the scraper sites, but they also removed real sites that link to us as well. We had about 4 pages of sites linking to us, about half scrapers sites. But the rest are legitimate sites that linked to us of their own accord. In fact, we don't even link back to some of them.

This has killed our business. And I do mean killed. We are still no.1 on MSN and Yahoo, but we are now on page 6 of google. Our sales have plummetted so badly, that i wonder why the lights are still on.

A note about the "evil" of scraper sites. The sites that are on the scrapers sites got to the top of the real SERPs based on legitimate links and content. Then along come the scrappers, they give everyone a boost .... until google kills the scraper sites. But now we are dead. So I don't understand why killing the scraper sites killed us? We should have gone back to where we were before the scaper sites started linking to us.

What google SHOULD be doing is REMOVING those people using adsense program on their scrapers sites. But interestingly they do not.

Bottom line: Google has put us out of business yet again.

<snip> if anyone wants to verify what I've said.

Does anyone have an email address that google really answers? The main thing I'd like to talk to them about is that they removed the links to us from legitimate sites.

[edited by: lawman at 12:26 am (utc) on Sep. 1, 2005]
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