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Things I know.
Domain name was created last year.
They are on page 4 for the main keyword search.
They have hundreds of pages of information, related to the keyword and not related to the keyword.
At first I thought, wow this site is doing well on the main keyword search, improving weekly, lots of information, photos and links to other websites, indexed by Google daily.
I was even going to ask them to link my website.
Then I found hundreds of pages not related to the domain name, other topics, etc etc etc. This is when I came to the conclusion that it must be a scrapper site.
There are two main reasons why I am annoyed:
1)I am competing with them for the same Adsense $$$
2)They are ahead of me on the main keyword, without having to work on the content, I have spent hundreds of hours building my site.
Has anybody reported Scraper sites and have they been removed?
This is my interpretation of how scraper sites don’t comply to Adsense Program Policies:
1)“No Google ad may be placed on pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads, whether or not the page content is relevant”
2)“Copyrighted Material - In order to avoid associations with copyright claims, website publishers may not display Google ads on web pages with MP3, Video, News Groups, and Image Results.”
3)“Any other content that promotes illegal activity or infringes on the legal rights of others”
Scraper sites are designed and developed purely for showing ads.
If scraper sites are grabbing information from other websites then they are illegally copying content and infringing the rights of others.
Displaying photos and maps they obviously doesn’t have permission.
My only other concern is that I don’t know if they are a scraper site, based on everything I know they seem to be, but what is the tell tale sign?
Methods that are used to get junky sites on top such as spamming free blogger accounts with auto-posted newsletters as 'content', get detected and shut down on a regular basis. If you truly want to stay on top of the reasons why these sites may get ahead of yours, you would have to immerse yourself in the evil black hat full time.
You'd be better to focus your time on building a quality site then chasing down individual cookie cutters that will get the axe soon enough.
Methods that are used to get junky sites on top such as spamming free blogger accounts with auto-posted newsletters as 'content', get detected and shut down on a regular basis. If you truly want to stay on top of the reasons why these sites may get ahead of yours, you would have to immerse yourself in the evil black hat full time.
You'd be better to focus your time on building a quality site then chasing down individual cookie cutters that will get the axe soon enough.
These guys can turn out a 10,000 page web site in literally 20 minutes. They can go buy another $1.50 .info domain name, and hide their whois. Do you make enough Adsense money to justify spending your time trying to be robocop? Leave it to the Stanford brainiacs..
Each paragraph was well-written (I should know, I wrote the first two!) but on the whole the article made no sense whatsoever.
At the bottom was an "about the author" note that identified the "author" as some guy with a PhD with a link to his "homepage".
I was really impressed, someone had gone to some effort to rip off my content. It was obviously not your usual machine-generated scraper.
Of course there was adsense all over it.
I could easily find it again - try this yourself: search for a whole sentence from one of your most popular content pages, you'll find pages like this one.
While I'm sure I could report them, and maybe Google would kick them out of the program, it would be like playing whack-a-mole. Better to let the real PhDs at google figure out how to track these folks down in an automated way than waste my time with it.
My time is better spent writing quality content, refining my advertising campaign, and improving my site design.
