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0 pointssantah5y ago0 comments

But what are they ranking higher?

Only the domains that display the stolen content, with no ads or anything.

What is in it for them?

It doesn't make much sense to do it other than if you're trying to affect someone else's ranking by causing them to be penalized for duplicate content. No?

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hayksaakian5y ago· 3 in thread

if you look through their source code there are ad tags.

view-source:https://[redacted].com/titansgrave--the-ashes-of-valkana/sea...

unless you have a competitor you really hates you for some personal vendetta, it's exceptionally rare to see this level of effort for the purpose of negative SEO in 2021.

like I said just looks like a spammer going for low hanging fruit, throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks

santahOP5y ago

Not sure what you mean.

The AD code there is mine and the only thing they added is some JavaScript code for a Russian web page counter ...

Can you please remove the link to the offending site as not to give them any link juice?

I think the OP is saying it's a spammer running experiments to see what works, with the intention of maybe one day doing something.

I'm not sure that is a correct assessment, just (hopefully) clarifying the OP's intent.

hayksaakian5y ago

it looks like my post is too old at his point to allow me to edit it. If DanG or any mods are around, I would appreciate if you could remove the link on my previous post.

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