Scraper Sites

How do you prevent scraper sites skimming off your content?

[Ganceann]

Hi,

I am a new adsense publisher. I have read in different posts about scraper sites effectively taking a cut of other peoples website adsense generated income.

A few questions,

How can you tell this is happening?

How can you prevent it from happening?

How does google handle sites that are affected by this - penalised for something they are unaware of?

As I said I am a new publisher so I am just getting used to the screens and the channel analysis but at the minute I do not want to be affected by these scraper sites leeching off my content.

I searched and couldn't find a thread about this that I had read previously some time ago, any help would be appreciated.

[ken_b]

Don't waste your time by getting caught up in the anti-scraper hysteria.

Work on your own site and let the scrapers worry about themselves is the best advice I can think of in answer to your questions.

[jomaxx]

I agree that it's best to put this out of your mind for the foreseeable future. They're annoying but they don't really usurp YOUR traffic, they just clog up the listings.

[minnapple]

As long as the scrappers are weaker than your site, which in most cases their are, don't worry about them.
If they are actually being indexed by Google, they can actually raise your rankings.
However, since big daddy I think most of these sites "fresh link" value has gone down.