Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'scraping'

How Can Your Readers Help Protect You from Made For AdSense Sites

A Search Engine Watch Forums thread has an interesting discussion where a publisher of content that supports his specialty product is noticing his content is being used on sites with Google AdSense ads. He explains: The thing is, lately there...

Google Should Add a Report Stolen Content Form in AdSense Console

Yesterday, I went off on the Daily SearchCast about how Google AdSense makes it incredibly hard to report stolen content. You and I see it every day. Some "evil" AdSense publishers scrape and steal your content, mix and match it...

Are XML Sitemaps Files a Welcoming Door in for Scrapers?

An excellent WebmasterWorld thread asks if the new Sitemaps Auto-Discovery supported by all four major search engines is not just an easy way for search engines to find and index your content. The thread asks if this enables scrapers to...

Scrape Bots Vs. Search Bots :: Fighting the Battle

A Search Engine Watch Forums thread asks how can one prevent scraping of his site's content by a non-authorized spider, while not hurting his rankings in search engines? This is a serious issue, serious enough that there was a session...


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