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Feels good to take scraper sites (especially those out-ranking you with your own articles) down!

by satrap
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Man it feels good to take down those scraper sites. For the past few weeks, I have been on the hunt to find any site that scrapes my content.

Unfortunately I am finding lots of them.

I think it has to with the fact that for about a year or so the site was ranking well for all kinds of make money online keywords, especially the main ones, so people were building blogspot blogs left and right practically just copying the entire site. Some of these dumb a..es don't even bother to change the interlinking that I have done.

Sure, I get tons of backlinks, but worthless ones that I wish I 'get.

Anyway, I have been reporting a whole bunch of them for the past few weeks, and I am rally happy that Google does take fast action. Usually within days the blogspot and Site.google sites are deleted.

Off topic: By the way, anyone noticing how google sites (site.google) are showing up more and more in the SERPs?...).

And a few of these scraper sites were even out-ranking me on some of these keywords. That just drives me nuts.


Rant over. Sorry I just had to get it out of my system. I just hate it when people think they can just take the content you work hard for or in some cases paid good money for, and use it as if its their own.
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  • Profile picture of the author ashloren
    I've had this problem too and agree that Google is fast to respond and has never once questioned me after I provide them the proof that I own the content. They remove the content immediately with no questions asked once the request has been reviewed by them. I also hate it when people try to steal my stuff.
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    • Profile picture of the author satrap
      Originally Posted by ashloren View Post

      I've had this problem too and agree that Google is fast to respond and has never once questioned me after I provide them the proof that I own the content. They remove the content immediately with no questions asked once the request has been reviewed by them. I also hate it when people try to steal my stuff.
      I think the reason they don't question you is because they have their ways of quickly finding out where the content originally was published (they can look at the cached version, wayback machine, etc.).

      Plus, when you look at a scraper site, compared to a normal legit site, it doesn't really take much to know who is telling the truth, although I don't think they base their decision using this method, nor would I want them to, since looks can be deceiving.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kurt
    Kind of ironic, considering Google itself is a scraper site.
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      reporting google to askjeeves
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    • Profile picture of the author Alex Mensah
      Originally Posted by Kurt View Post

      Kind of ironic, considering Google itself is a scraper site.
      yeah maybe Google should take themselves down.
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    • Profile picture of the author satrap
      Originally Posted by Kurt View Post

      Kind of ironic, considering Google itself is a scraper site.
      I have heard this many times, but I never really get it. There are lots of differences between what Google is and does and what a scraper site is and does, 2 of the most important one being:

      1. Google is a search engine that people ACTUALLY use to find content.
      2. Google doesn't take your content and claims it as its own.
      Having said that, I don't agree with everything Google does either. I think their war against "spam" is just a BS when (correctly pointed out by GeorgR above) a scarper site still ranks number 1 and the original publisher is nowhere on the first 5 pages of the serps.


      But what I talked about in the original post is an entirely different matter.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kurt
        Originally Posted by satrap View Post

        I have heard this many times, but I never really get it. There are lots of differences between what Google is and does and what a scraper site is and does, 2 of the most important one being:

        1. Google is a search engine that people ACTUALLY use to find content.
        2. Google doesn't take your content and claims it as its own.
        Having said that, I don't agree with everything Google does either. I think their war against "spam" is just a BS when (correctly pointed out by GeorgR above) a scarper site still ranks number 1 and the original publisher is nowhere on the first 5 pages of the serps.


        But what I talked about in the original post is an entirely different matter.
        Scraper sites don't have to take an entire page of content to be a scraper site. Nor do they have to claim the content is their own. Google.com scrapes content from other sites to create their index, which is why it is a scraper site.

        The differences you point out are differences in some scraper sites.
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    Not for nothing but, they can build sites faster than you can take them down.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    I am sorry, but are you aware WHERE the problem is when Google ranks cheap blogspot sites having scraped YOUR content higher than your own site?

    "Scraping" or syndication...be it "legal" (eg. by taking content which has been syndicated via ezinearticles etc.) or illegal/immoral (eg. stealing content from your site) should never result in this in the first place.

    So..rather than complaining about the scrapers (which is of course understandable!)..maybe you should go and complain about Google and their shitty way how they rank sites nowadays! (Of course, this would merit a whole new topic now...but just saying...G+, Youtube, G authorship.G drive, blogspot etc. == Voila! Nice rankings. So..obviously there is a "slight" bias here somewhere, to say it mildly...)
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  • Profile picture of the author ashloren
    Google is not a scraper site. They crawl content, they don't scrape it at all. Not only that, but they will also typically respect the site owner's wishes if they do not want their website to be crawled and indexed.

    They have very little in common with any kind of scraping site. They organize tons of information that's on the web which would otherwise be very difficult to find, but nice try.
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