JeffOstroff - 5:17 am on May 27, 2006 (gmt 0)

For sites like ours, it seems like these scraper sites are crawling us daily. At any given time, I can grab a unique sentence off our site, and Google it, and several scraper sites show up in the search results for that sentence, even though it does not appear on their page anywhere. They are using php files to feed Google's crawler.

In fact we added a sentence on our site 2 weeks ago asking people to email us about bridal scams that they have seen lately. Sure enough, some scum bag in the UK copied that sentence already.

We have about a 75% success rate at getting them shut down by their web host, then once they are Page Not Found, we submit them to Google's automated URL removal tool, and 3 days later it's bye bye scum bag.