Scrapers: AdSense Publisher's Nightmare?

[webspidah]

You write article.
Scraper comes around and snags it.
Scraper's site indexes before your site.
Scraper is decided to have the original article.
You get no traffic to the page.
Scraper gets the traffic = cash.
You cry.
Scraper laughs.

What to do?

[jomaxx]

A scraper only uses a snippet from the page, not the whole article. If they take the whole article, that's something else -- outright theft, which also happens -- but that's not what scrapers do.

[webspidah]

OK!

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[jatar_k]

>> but that's not what scrapers do

I don't agree, scrapers take it all, that's kinda the point

but what they reuse is not the whole thing, unless they're completely stupid, as that would make identification much easier. What is republished is not what is taken, they take everything.

[martinibuster]

Scrapers are not a problem as far as taking away your traffic. Apart from wasting your bandwidth crawling your site, they are a minor annoyance, like a fly buzzing around in the next room.

There are far more substantial things for a publisher to focus on.

[david_uk]

I don't really have a problem with scrapers indexing my content any more than I have a problem with Google indexing it. Yes, I know that they might pinch whole chunks of it, and they might take up some bandwidth crawling it, but I'd agree that there are more important things to focus on.

Scrapers are there to make money, usually by adwords / adsense arbitrage and show up as MFA's. That's where I get the problem with them, and blocking them is where I feel my efforts should be concentrated.

[jomaxx]

I don't agree, scrapers take it all... but what they reuse is not the whole thing...
What is republished is not what is taken, they take everything.

LOL, not to be argumentative but what's the point of making this distinction? Of course they TAKE everything in that sense. Assuming it's a one-page article, from a practical standpoint how could they spider only part of the article?

The point is that a true scraper doesn't republish the whole article and therefore there is unlikely to be a problem related to duplicate content. If someone has actually published your whole article in its entirety, file a DMCA complaint with Google and they'll remove it from their index.
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[jatar_k]

>> not to be argumentative

yeah, I didn't mean it that way either just wanted to mention it for the folk that may not understand what scrapers do, or don't do.

[ann]

I ran down a few that took and used the whole page, right down to leaving my name in the text! So yeah, they sometimes Use it all.

Ann