What kind of websites are these [really]
It gets annoying to find your content on other websites that exist only to make money off of the efforts of others. One such example is illustrated below and my apologies but I had to shrink the page to fit it in the allowable space.
Here is what you'll find, a recent post written by me and yes, it does link to my original post which is how I found it in the first place. But more insidious are all the keywords designed to get this page and others like it to the top of Google search rankings so that people who find the page will click through to both the Google ads and a couple of hosted ads. And maybe they will also collect your contact information and sell you as a lead back to a real, real estate agent.
Barry Ritholtz at The Big Picture addresses the problem and offers a solution.
But if Google really wants to get serious about this, they would go after the many sites that host these cr@p ads: Cut & paste blogs, splogs, and scrapper sites. They exist solely to host all those ad scams Google is so concerned about.
