How are these scraped websites charging you for leads - do you have an official affiliate program? If it is not your official affiliate program, then you need

How are these scraped websites charging you for leads - do you have an official affiliate program? If it is not your official affiliate program, then you need to stop paying for the leads. You probably have an enterprising black hat who is getting his site ranked with your content purely to sell traffic to you. Disabling the reward mechanism would help stop this If it is an official affiliate program, then you should set the following rules for your program. 1. No content scraping allowed. Let the affiliates create their own content that adds value to the potential customers. 2. All affiliate sites should link directly to your website (i.e. traffic is not sent via javascript or any other method) Doing this will ensure that Google know which is the main website and which are affiliates. 3. No bidding on your keywords related to your brand. [edited for formatting]