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Apparently, this Singaporean person really wanted a duplicate of our site. He sent us an email requesting permission to use all our articles, all 5,700+ of them to be put on his site! He has finished stealing our homepage plus a couple of our section main pages. An innocent and honest thief, if ever there is one. Funny thing is he forgot to change some references to our website - e.g. in the part where we say "Syndicate the following Content from mywebsite.com", he retained the name of our website; as well as in the section containing a list of our products.
It blows my mind to think that there are unimaginative people out there who wants to earn money the fast way by ripping other people off their handiworks. Stealing an article is one thing; but stealing an entire site is another. I guess in his mind he is already calculating how much he can earn from Adsense from a ready-made 5,700+ pages of content with not-too-shabby keywords.
Of course, we immediately filed a DCMA complaint to Google, his domain registrar, his web host (am I forgetting others?), and sent him a cease-and-desist letter. Also sent a report to Adsense, although I am wondering if he used the site to apply for Adsense because I searched around and couldn't find another site that belongs to him. I checked the publisher ID and it's not ours.
It must be frustrating to talentless individuals to think that others are making good money and they just don't know how :o(
However, sitting around complaining your glass is half empty and quoting Karl Marx won't do anything useful.
However, sitting around complaining your glass is half empty and quoting Karl Marx won't do anything useful.
... better yet write the article yourself and submit it to few places...
You'd end up with a duplicate content penalty though ;-)
Don't be so sure. Have you checked back to see if he still runs adsense?
I haven't checked back, but I received an email from Brett (?) that it would be taken care of by 'our attorneys'...
Perhaps if they had a dedicated form to actively report adsense scraper sites (that was monitored by humans, as opposed to going into the "Google spam report" black hole) they could return some semblance of quality to their "content network".
One can only conclude (based on lack of action on sooo many sites) that they are purposely "looking the other way" in the interest of profit.
Or, am I way off base?
Monitoring AdSense sites is less of a priority. I suspect that they are actively gathering DATA on AdSense sites and working on a way to filter sites using an algorithm. When they have something that works, they'll roll it out....
Let me quote an old Cyndi Lauper long:
"Money. Money changes everything."
