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Hey Dan, it's annoying when a someone scrapes your website, and it's even more annoying that this site tried to claim your Mom's images with Getty. But as far a

Hey Dan, it's annoying when a someone scrapes your website, and it's even more annoying that this site tried to claim your Mom's images with Getty. But as far as I can tell, the site that you mentioned isn't having any success at all. For all the work that this spammer put into copying your Mom's site, it doesn't look like they're getting even a single digit number of visitors from Google. So they may be annoying, but their attempts at spamming didn't do them any good at all. Feel free to do a DMCA request, but I'm already passing this to my team as a spam report and we'll dig into it. I don't know how Getty deals with scrapers though, so you'll need to look into that on your side. I made a video with advice about dealing with scraping a few years ago that might be useful for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CosWAVLCZg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CosWAVLCZg

grecy 13y ago
Hey Matt, Can you pass along the scrapers details to the Adsense team too... I would think that account should be shutdown.
dangoldin 13y ago
Matt, Thanks for the response - I guess my mom's site is good enough to ward off a cheap attack. Thanks for passing this on to the team - that host has a ton more sites similar to my mom's so anything that can be done to help the original owners would be awesome. It sucks worse for people who aren't familiar with the web and just have to deal with the consequences of someone else's actions. Anything Google can do to help is appreciated and I suspect this problem will only get more difficult. I'll past that video on to my mom as well. Thanks again.
- Matt_Cutts 13y ago
  No worries at all. It was a pretty big network of spam domains, even though each individual domain wasn't really having any impact.
gwu78 13y ago
"... it doesn't look like they're getting even a single digit number of visitors from Google." So? What if that is not the goal? Is it possible that some users might not type their searches in a Google-sponsored search bar or a Google-controlled browser's "omni" bar? Is it possible that some websites might get traffic from their domain names alone, because these names are descriptive? No search engine needed: Type your search into the address bar and add .com. I believe this is called "direct navigation". Presumably, these sites generate small scale (but targeted) traffic on a site by site basis that might only be significant when aggregated across many sites. Contrast this with the immense traffic received by a search engine acting as a portal to the rest of the web, for which each site must compete... by purchasing ads or placement or "SEO" services. Interestingly, there is no AdSense on the imposter site mentioned in the article. The only outbound links is a search form pointing to https://www.google.com https://www.google.com. Thus this imposter site is not a landing page for Do Re Mi but for Google.

grecy 13y ago

Hey Matt, Can you pass along the scrapers details to the Adsense team too... I would think that account should be shutdown.

dangoldin 13y ago

Matt, Thanks for the response - I guess my mom's site is good enough to ward off a cheap attack. Thanks for passing this on to the team - that host has a ton more sites similar to my mom's so anything that can be done to help the original owners would be awesome. It sucks worse for people who aren't familiar with the web and just have to deal with the consequences of someone else's actions. Anything Google can do to help is appreciated and I suspect this problem will only get more difficult. I'll past that video on to my mom as well. Thanks again.

Matt_Cutts 13y ago
No worries at all. It was a pretty big network of spam domains, even though each individual domain wasn't really having any impact.

gwu78 13y ago

"... it doesn't look like they're getting even a single digit number of visitors from Google." So? What if that is not the goal? Is it possible that some users might not type their searches in a Google-sponsored search bar or a Google-controlled browser's "omni" bar? Is it possible that some websites might get traffic from their domain names alone, because these names are descriptive? No search engine needed: Type your search into the address bar and add .com. I believe this is called "direct navigation". Presumably, these sites generate small scale (but targeted) traffic on a site by site basis that might only be significant when aggregated across many sites. Contrast this with the immense traffic received by a search engine acting as a portal to the rest of the web, for which each site must compete... by purchasing ads or placement or "SEO" services. Interestingly, there is no AdSense on the imposter site mentioned in the article. The only outbound links is a search form pointing to https://www.google.com https://www.google.com. Thus this imposter site is not a landing page for Do Re Mi but for Google.