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Lookster.com is a giant scraper site. These $#*@&! scraped some content from one of my pages. :madat:
I couldn’t find any casino affiliate tags there; only Adsense ads. Their Google Adsense tag: pub-0238422256144549. I suppose I should report this one to Google.
Whois information:
Domain Name:
LOOKSTER.COMAdministrative Contact:
Internet Retail Billing, Inc.
Host Master (hostmaster@retailbilling.com)
+1.8005904377
Fax:
2756 N Green Valley Pkwy #830
Henderson, NV 89014
USTechnical Contact:
Internet Retail Billing, Inc.
Host Master (hostmaster@retailbilling.com)
+1.8005904377
Fax:
2756 N Green Valley Pkwy #830
Henderson, NV 89014
USRegistrant Contact:
Internet Retail Billing, Inc.
Host Master (hostmaster@retailbilling.com)
+1.8005904377
Fax:
2756 N Green Valley Pkwy #830
Henderson, NV 89014
USStatus: Locked
Name Servers:
Creation date: 02 Jun 2005 14:07:06
Expiration date: 02 Jun 2006 14:07:06Yes, turn them in to google.
Although google may not care as much if the site promotes only them…. we’ll see.
I turned it in last night. We’ll see what happens. :stirpot:
This one is not all doom and gloom. I must ask are these sites stealing cash from you? if so then yes a Google spam report would be a good idea. But if they are just using content for the Google adsense I would not bother. This can indirectly have many benefits.
I have lots of sites I leave alone if they are using my content for the adsense program. If this be the case Google will likely do nothing and favor your site all the more. Google makes money off your site, they would put a higher importance on it. I am however speculating here. greek39
Yes, this site scraped my content. Now if someone searches for a unique phrase that was once present only on my site, they will encounter the (scraped) phrase on this other site as well. This could potentially cause me to lose a conversion (because the viewer might click on the other search result instead of mine), and it could also *possibly* cause a duplicate content penalty.
Then I argee, with your stance. greek39
What is a duplicate content penalty please?
joeyl wrote:What is a duplicate content penalty please?A tricky one to quantify. But my understanding of it is that if Google finds more than one page with identical content, it makes an assumption on the most relevant one (it is impossible to know how that conclusion is reached – merely to speculate), and the other is effectively “penalised” with lower SERPS – actually meaning the page Google prefers is actually rewarded with a higher SERP.
In theory, if your page has high relevancy and good SEO applied, it won’t matter that you’ve been scraped. But no-one will really know if it is the better of the two til the second arrives on the Google map.
The duplicate content penalty you describe sounds like a filter to me Simmo.
joeyl wrote:The duplicate content penalty you describe sounds like a filter to me Simmo.Yup. Exactly
I think “penalty” in SEO terms is a largely misunderstood term.In reality, Google etc aren’t going to “penalise” a site for “off-page” factors outside of your control. It would be bad practice for them to assume that the same person was always responsible for the same content on two sites. besides which, they have ICANN accreditation now so they can check whois anyway.
Duplicate content has to be done in a malicious way for Google to take action IMO. There are hundreds of news sites out there that all use the same AP Newswire reports on their sites, but they don’t get penalized. It’s more than just having groupings of words that match another site, it’s more about the intentions. And how exactly Google figures that out is anyone’s guess.
