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What’s the deal with this?
I have a poker site that’s about a month and a half old. It’s rather unique so it’s getting decent traffic already.
While checking my site in google I noticed someone had a page like this indexed:
Ever played before? Mysite!
skcity.nu: Go for your luck: Mysite. Mysite – only for you!
Good luck – with Mysite!
http://www.skcity.nu/articles/Mysite.html – Similar pagesThe link takes you to pacific. Click on similar pages and you’ll find eight more pages just like it.
I’ve heard about hijacks and stuff. Are they just trying to get people to visit their site who search for my website or is something more sinister going on? Is this something to worry about or should I just ignore it?
Boog
Without seeing the actual site this is guesswork, but I think you are looking at a scraper site.
You should retrieve the aff code from it and ask Pacific to please tell their affiliate that scraper sites are not a welcome method of promotion.
You might also post his/her details here.
Thanks Dominique!
Well I emailed Pacific the details including screenshots and the pages code and the affiliate ID’s. We’ll see how they respond.
Hey Dominique, whoevers doing this has tons of cloaked pages it would appear:
do a site: on the following. He’s got 13,000 pages just for the first url.
http://www.insider.nu
http://www.ceps.nu
http://www.skcity.nu
http://www.boardgames.nuIs there anyway to view the actual cloaked page instead of being directed to Pacific?
You can see the “original” version of the site if you click on the cached page link in the listings. It will show you how the SE saw that page when it indexed it.
Unfortunately a lot of scraper sites are out there, SEs are fighting them too. You can send a message to Google about this, it will ban this domain from its engine soon.
(What I recognized that these sites have usually .nu or .ws toplevel domain.)
sipka wrote:You can see the “original” version of the site if you click on the cached page link in the listings. It will show you how the SE saw that page when it indexed it.I tried that and just got a blank page, which from what I read at Webmaster World is pretty typical of cloaking. But thanks for the info Sipka.
Looks like Pacific doesn’t care about people who cloak or otherwise cheat to get ahead in the serps, even if they use your sites name to do it. It’s not the fact that his site appears before mine, it’s the fact that the site is using my websites name on several of its page titles and loading the pages with our name in order to be found under our websites name!
“Thank you for contacting the 888.com Affiliate Program.
>
> Please be advised that you mention that some of our affiliates is some
> how appearing before your site in site indexes.
> Unfortunately we could not interfere with this and you will have to
> handle it through Google.
>
> If in need of any additional assistance in this or any other matter,
> please do not hesitate to contact us.
>
> Best regards,
>
> ______________________
> Eran Segal
> Affiliate Support Team
> 888.com Affiliate Program
> affiliates@888.com“I am pretty sure they are a certified program here on CAP, :sarcasm: sad to see that they dont care about this issue. Maybe you should try posting down in their forum.
I guess 888.com is an affiliate program that I will not promote, then.
I was considering it, but to allow this kind of plaguarism is ridiculous, unscrupulous, and just plain wrong.
They have this unscrupulous affiliate by the ‘balls’ so to speak and should be able to stop the thieving of materials easily by halting commissions. I am sure they get signups this way, but it is still theft. I think that when someone is turned in, the originator of the content should get all of those casino customers sent by the thief as well.
kw
Hi guys,
Just to clarify. I don’t “think” they’ve actually stolen any of our actual page content, but who knows as I can’t view their cloaked pages.
I did site:hissite.com “unique keywords from our pages” and found nothing.
What I think happened is the site owner saw our website’s name in Word Tracker or some other type of tool, and decided to generate lots of pages with our name in it in order to get traffic. I found several nonsensical pages with our website’s name in the title and at the end of the url, as well as in the page content description. I think he’s using some type of auto content generator using keywords he’s chosen. Whoever it is has thousands of cloaked pages doing the same thing. No wonder Pacific doesn’t want to do anything about it. Doesn’t seem fair to you guys that promote Pacific heavily.
So I think it’s a really crummy thing to do, but I don’t think he’s actually stolen any of our content, except for our name that is. At least I hope not. Still, using my website’s name to get traffic is a dishonorable thing to do. Especially in the url and titles to make it look like it’s my site.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=+site:www.skcity.nu+skcity.nu
They have hundreds of pages indexed all loading 888 into frames. It seems they are using lots of other sites names/descriptions etc.
I also have word that 888 is “now” looking into this and will be contacting that affiliate
