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scammer's blog:
http://example.blogspot.com/
what is the best/fastest way to resolve this?
thank you...
[edited by: jatar_k at 1:34 am (utc) on Dec. 25, 2007]
[edit reason] examplified [/edit]
Emphasizing yet again that nothing is safe from the scrapers...
I just got out of 1 year battle of e-mails, complains and stuff with a guy that copied an entire ~200 pages website, robot.txt, scripts and everything, he finally got removed from most search engines and got banned from google, but that lasted ~1 year...
His hosting company cancelled his account, after a year I received a letter from his ISP company to tell me that they cancelled his subscription too, they considered this as spam... so I guess this one is out of the internet for good. But what I don't want is that year long battle to get results...
I look at daily logs and investigate any host that's downloading too many pages (usually, they are lying about being "regular" browsers, but you can spot irregularities in how they explore the site).
If I find spiders pretending to be visitors, I block them on the web server level. Normally, their IP's resolve to web hosting sites, anyway, so I doubt I am losing visitors from this.
Anyway, it's a HUGE problem and I am quite upset Google doesn't address it directly and explicitly. I'd think that writing a program that spots duplicate content on AdSense pages and sends a warning to administrators to manually review the sites would be trivial.