The Laziest SEO’s on Earth!
Getting spammed is something that isn’t new to us here at Vertical Measures (see our post from February "Search Engine Optimization Spam"). Spam is a big problem all over the web; how much is spam costing your company? One company provides an ROI calculator to figure out just that. Spam is not just those pesky e-mails telling you you’ve won the UK lottery, it can also come in the form of scraped content.
Site scrapers are very common, but this was a very manual process. This lazy person basically surfed Google for the top ranking pages and scrapped them to build his site. If you cruise around the site a bit longer you’ll find that basically their whole site is stolen content. Are you one of the victims? We found several link building & SEO companies that we know with their content posted on this site. Play a little SEO "Where’s Waldo" and see if your site’s content is getting hijacked. While, in this instance, we aren’t going to spend too much time trying to get the content down, it does beg the question: How far would you go to protect your content, and call out those that don’t play by the rules?
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July 24th, 2009 at 8:00 am
Ahh, scummy indeed – At least it’s an overseas company. This same thing actually happened with my old business site with a US company! Stole my home page word for word! I phoned them, and they had outsorced – to India
(Who outsources their own home page text?!? How lazy!)
July 24th, 2009 at 9:00 am
I suppose I’m sensitive about my content being scraped as I would take whatever action is necessary to get it removed.
Articles that I write and publish on the web are my professional output, they reflect on my reputation as a doctor. Certainly I want to control where they appear and in which context they are viewed.
Dr, Grant Stowell, DC
July 24th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Wow! That is unbelievable. Good call not linking to them directly.
July 27th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
It took me quite a few seconds and pinching myself twice to check that what I was reading was true. Unbelievable!!! I’ve twitted your post hoping that it makes people aware of this “hazard”. I try to be very jealous of my own content online but from now onwards I’ll be extra vigilant.
July 31st, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Thanks for the great info I do copy content from msn etc but I never forget to mention the link from which the data has been taken at the bottom of each post
August 4th, 2009 at 12:37 am
It recently came to my attention that a blog had scraped word for word an article I wrote for my hub page and replaced the links with their own. I havn’t been unable to contact the blog owner but have left many comments on the post. Then another copy of the article appeared on another site, again scraped. This time they removed it. It’s very annoying.