Atticus - 9:20 am on Mar 24, 2005 (gmt 0)

Seige,

A scraper site is generated by a php script. The script seeks out and copies the SERPs for search terms on Google.

The result is a site with a myriad of unrelated content, consisting of nothing but links and snippets from web sites that appear high on Google SERPs.

The idea seems to be that Google titles and snippets contain all the juice these sites need to place in the top ten themselves.

These sites almost always have Goggle Adsense ads prominently displayed. They have no value of their own and exist only to rank well and generate money from Adsense.

Some of these scraper sites link to other sites with questionable 302 and meta refresh links that cause the formerly well ranking target pages to fall out of the Google SERPs.

Scraper sites are bad.