quizprep - 1:29 am on May 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

It's not one url, it's many; I run an online publishing company, which hires employees/freelancers with expertise to write online content, which we then add advertising (in the form of adsense, affiliates, cpm ads, etc.) to. It's in a variety of topics, both niche and broad, and some of the sites are actually somewhat well known. Apparently it is quite lucrative to folks overseas to duplicate our sites, though the duplication isn't exclusive to foreign scrapers, it's just that they are more difficult to stop (about 1/3 of it is done by U.S. website owners, but they are generally more receptive to DMCA complaints, or at least their hosting providers are). I understand that, in some cases, our sites our duplicated and then sold to other website owners en masse, who then republish them, often creating 5 - 10 copies of the same website on the Internet at once (which, as you can imagine, causes all sorts of dup content penalties).

At any rate, it's become increasingly frustrating, and I'd just like to find a magic bullet for future websites - I wonder how larger, commercial sites avoid duplication by scaper?