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08-22-2006, 03:22 PM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: London
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 |  PokerDIY and dynamic screen scraping sites Hello all, I have no idea where to post this, so I'll start here... I have a lot of traffic on PokerDIY, so I checked my logs and there are a lot of weird looking referrers in a: http://www.ftstart.com/ http://www.party-flights.com/party-poker-strategy.html http://www.catherypacific.com/pacific-poker-games.html http://www.animal-rescue-kingdom.org...tutorials.html http://www.thecasinopokerrooms.com/c...ker-rooms.html They all look the same – same layout – different links (slightly)… reading the content you can see it makes no sense… If you click on their advertising link you’ll see they are all the same. Some even have the same banners. I think they scraping related websites (hence my hits) and parsing together articles that probably remain up for a few days to get indexed by search engines, and then they put affiliate links and ads on. They run hundreds of these, so that normal punters do searches and go to these bogus sites and click on their links. So… is this good or bad? I don’t know – I benefit nothing but my logs look like a lot of people visited the site. Anyone know anything about this? Is this a common practice? Excuse my ignorance if this is a common subject  |
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08-22-2006, 03:40 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Hull, United Kingdom.
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 |  Re: PokerDIY and dynamic screen scraping sites Hi there, Probably just SPAM sites, as you can see one of the URLs is Animal Rescue Kingdom and then you click on it and it is showing poker tutorials. I had this when I used to look in my AWstats and I think they are just SPAM sites using useless domains for backing. Don't worry about it the world will be rid of these sort of things eventually. I'm sure everyone get these. Regards, Kieran Taylor. |
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08-22-2006, 03:59 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Leicestershire, UK
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| Re: PokerDIY and dynamic screen scraping sites Yes. With a reseller account and some dubious software you can set up about ten of these sites a day. They are a nightmare, and I don't know if google knows it or not, but they are destroying Googles reputation slowly but surely. The future will be paid listings, I am sad to say, but I am sure it will happen. Paul. |
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08-22-2006, 05:35 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: London
Posts: 58
| Re: PokerDIY and dynamic screen scraping sites Hmmm - it is annoying - it makes my site look nice and popular but I need to know how many users are real vs web crawlers! I can imagine the mentality behind a user who stumbles across it - they see it and at first glance the content makes no sense - so they click on a link (advert) that does make sense... With the sheer numbers these crooks make a killing! |
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