Hello, I'd like to know if other casino/poker affiliates are annoyed by scraper sites. Google lets black hat SEO guys steal content and then rank high their redirects! They make huge money this way and honest webmasters often get their sites banned for duplicate content eventhough it was original work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scraper_site Hope Google will soon help us get rid of these pirates
Well the life span of scraper sites is coming to an end, even the dreaded Lycos Retriever is mostly bannished to supplemental results - we all hate scraper sites when they steal our content - but many black hat seo webmasters made a lot of money from them, myself included, I even sold a few for big money !! Black hat scraper sites are fast becoming outdated as the algorithms have evolved to catch these sites because of the billions of pages of spam in serps. Give it another year and I think the index will be empty of them, as new techniques evolve which are just as lucrative. So you don't have to worry about this, search engines are getting on top of it now.
Yes. absolutely. Google should work for this. Since Black hat is more faster than White hat, so problem occurred here.
If you want to stay in SERP for long time than never go for black hat, at those scraper site will not stay on top for long time. it will get ranking speedily but loose it withing short time.
According to me, Black Hat search engine optimization is customarily defined as techniques that are used to get higher search rankings in an unethical manner. These black hat SEO techniques usually include one or more of the following characteristics: 1. breaks search engine rules and regulations. 2. creates a poor user experience directly because of the black hat SEO techniques utilized on the Web site. 3. unethically presents content in a different visual or non-visual way to search engine spiders and search engine users.