Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
Both sites had roughly the same number of pages indexed, in the 7,000 range, and both sites appeared well over a wide range of important keywords. 6 weeks ago the competitor changes all of his affiliate links, instead of pointing to the intended destination they now point to his/her own internal pages.
Those internal pages are 100% pure scraped content from the affiliate source, not a letter or space is different, and the number of pages indexed has skyrocketed to over 325,000 as well as moved his site to #1 accross the board for all our shared keywords.
I have to assume that his rankings will fall off in time but they show no sign of any negative effect. The links leading to those internal pages is DO follow, the links coming off the deeper pages is NO follow, so he is asking the search engines to count his copied pages.
A large number of the new pages are a verbatim copy of the affiliates RSS feed so his/her site is creating new content to the tune of 300-400 pages a day.
I can't afford to watch him drain a good chunk of the traffic we used to share for long. Should I wait for Google to catch up to him or jump on board since it's been working for months now?
In other words, it's not the volume of content on its own that does it - it takes link juice to support that content. And I am also surprised that this much scraped content seems to be "working".
Those internal pages are 100% pure scraped content from the affiliate source
Have you considered tattling?
[edited by: StoutFiles at 8:53 am (utc) on Dec. 21, 2008]
