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Site A has a site on widgets. Site B also has a site on widgets. Site A has copied all of Site B's page onto their site and put the url of the copied pages into their own urls.
Is there a name for this aweful practice and how does one go about about getting Google to remove them from both the directory and hopefully ban the theif from their adsense program. Site B is just one of dozens he has done this too.
[edited by: tedster at 3:48 am (utc) on Nov. 30, 2007]
[edit reason] de-link [/edit]
1) Site A is hosting copies of the pages (scraping), in which case this thread applies:
Scraped/Stolen Content - what to do first [webmasterworld.com]
2) Site A is running a proxy server, in which case this thread applies:
Proxy Server URLs Can Hijack Your Google Ranking - how to defend [webmasterworld.com]
Those two threads are always available in the Hot Topics area [webmasterworld.com], which is always pinned to the top of this forum's index page.
A proxy server will usually allow you to view any page, anywhere on the web by switching that page's url for the SiteB url in your example. Not so with a scraped page. Also, a scraped version of a page usually has changed the source code somewhat.
My guess in this case would be you're looking at a proxy server url.
