Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, responded to a Hacker News thread where Dan Goldin was upset with spammer SEOs when he noticed a site was scraping the content and images off of his mother’s site.

In short, Matt Cutts responded that the scraper site is not benefiting from the stolen content. Matt said the site is not getting any traffic from Google, from what he can tell.

Matt wrote:

It is interesting to see Matt say, “it doesn’t look like they’re getting even a single digit number of visitors from Google.” Why not? How does he know the site’s analytics? The site is indexed by Google, but Matt knows the site isn’t getting any traffic from Google. I guess he has ways of knowing by looking at the click through data that one would find in Webmaster Tools?

Either way, here is Matt’s video on scrapers:

Some other fun reading related to this:

Scraper Site Software Site Complains Site Not Listed In Google, Seriously!
Google’s Scraper Algorithm Now Live

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